Audra Simpson

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Audra Simpson

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Audra Simpson's Degrees

PhD Anthropology McGill University
Masters Anthropology McGill University
Bachelors Anthropology University of British Columbia

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A member of the Mohawk tribe, Audra Simpson is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Simpson focuses on the politics of recognition, specifically the Kahnawà:ke Mohawk struggles in keeping their legal and cultural rights. Her book, Mohawk Interrupts, was celebrated by Indigenous studies scholars as a critical addition to education on tribal community and national identity. As an anthropologist, a career in a field that is notorious for exploiting and thinking of Natives only in the past tense, Simpson pushes against these notions by centering on Native epistemologies.

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Audra Simpson's Published Works

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Published Works

On Ethnographic Refusal: Indigeneity, ‘Voice’ and Colonial Citizenship (2007) (349)
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (2014) (346)
The ruse of consent and the anatomy of ‘refusal’: cases from indigenous North America and Australia (2017) (114)
The State is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders and the Gender of Settler Sovereignty (2016) (102)
Theorizing Native Studies (2014) (101)
SETTLEMENT'S SECRET (2011) (95)
Subjects of Sovereignty: Indigeneity, the Revenue Rule, and Juridics of Failed Consent (2008) (43)
Whither settler colonialism? (2016) (41)
From White into Red: Captivity Narratives as Alchemies of Race and Citizenship (2008) (32)
Captivating Eunice: Membership, Colonialism, and Gendered Citizenships of Grief (2009) (27)
Why White People Love Franz Boas; or, The Grammar of Indigenous Dispossession (2018) (25)
Under the Sign of Sovereignty: Certainty, Ambivalence, and Law in Native North America and Indigenous Australia (2010) (19)
Sovereignty, Sympathy, and Indigeneity (2018) (16)
On the Logic of Discernment (2007) (12)
The Sovereignty of Critique (2020) (9)
The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty by Aileen Moreton-Robinson (review) (2016) (5)
Commentary: The “Problem” of Mental Health in Native North America: Liberalism, Multiculturalism, and the (Non)Efficacy of Tears (2008) (4)
Indigenous Interruptions: Mohawk Nationhood, Citizenship, and the State (2014) (3)
Constructing Kahnawà:ke as an “Out-of-the-Way” Place: Ely S. Parker, Lewis Henry Morgan, and the Writing of the Iroquois Confederacy (2014) (2)
Ethnographic Refusal: Anthropological Need (2014) (2)
Reading for Land Susan Hill's The Clay We Are Made Of: Haudenosaunee Land Tenure on the Grand River (2019) (1)
Borders, Cigarettes, and Sovereignty (2014) (1)
Dr. Audra Simpson: Indigenous Women and Intellectual Traditions in Anthropology (2018) (0)
Chapter 7. Why White People Love Franz Boas; or, The Grammar of Indigenous Dispossession (2018) (0)
Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur . By Ben Kiernan. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2007. x, 724 pp. $40.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper). (2009) (0)
A Brief History of Land, Meaning, and Membership in Iroquoia and Kahnawà:ke (2014) (0)
Empire of Feeling (2020) (0)
“Tell me why, why, why”: A Critical Commentary on the Visuality of Settler Expectation (2018) (0)
The Gender of the Flint: Mohawk Nationhood and Citizenship in the Face of Empire (2014) (0)
Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty (2012) (0)
Kwah Í:ken Tsi Iroquois = Oh so Iroquois = Tellement iroquois (2008) (0)
BIOGRAPHIES (2009) (0)
The Creator's Game: Lacrosse, Identity and Indigenous Nationhood Allan Downey, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018, pp. 346. (2019) (0)
Seven Generations of Iroquois Leadership: The Six Nations Since 1800 (review) (2010) (0)
Rethinking Indigeneity: Scholarship at the Intersection of Native American Studies and Anthropology (2022) (0)
A Special Thanks to Our Peer Reviewers (2017) (0)
Native Hubs: Culture, Community and Belonging in the Silicon Valley and Beyond by Renya K. Ramirez (2008) (0)

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