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. In 2022–23, Barker was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Indigenous Studies in Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity Studies at the University of Chicago. View Barker's art website.
Part of the spring 2024 Interseminars Event Series and supported by the Mellon Foundation.