Audra
Simpson
Professor
Anthropology
Professor Simpson is interested especially in formations of citizenship and nationhood that occur in spite of state power and imposition. In particular, she studies declarative, practice-oriented acts of independence and works to turn the fields of anthropology and Native American Studies into a critical, constructive dialogue with each other. Her recent research is a genealogy of affective governance and extraction across the US and Canada.
Undergraduate Courses Taught
- Native America
- Critical Native and Indigenous Studies
- Research in Social/Cultural Anthropology
Publications
- Profile in Indian Country Today
- Why White People Love Franz Boas or, The Grammar of Indigenous Dispossession
- The Ruse of Consent and the Anatomy of Refusal: Cases from Indigenous America and Australia