This event is part of the Interseminars series for “Improvise and Intervene,” supported by the Mellon Foundation.
Important event update: please note that Professor Joanne Barker's lecture has been changed to Zoom. Register to receive your link to attend.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joanne Barker is Lenape (a citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians). She is professor of American Indian Studies in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. She serves on The Segorea Te Land Trust Board.
Her book Red Scare: The State's Indigenous Terrorist (University of California Press, 2021) has been awarded the Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies Prize by the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
Joanne Barker has accepted an offer for the 2022-23 academic year to be a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Indigenous Studies in Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity Studies at the University of Chicago. She will be conducting research for her next book project which will develop further the issues she examined in Red Scare.
Joanne Barker's art website
