Kim TallBear

Kim TallBear
Residence Canada
Nationality Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate
Title Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment
Academic background
Alma mater University of Massachusetts at Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Doctoral advisor Donna Haraway
Academic work
Discipline Indigenous studies, Anthropology
Institutions University of Alberta

Kim TallBear is a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor at the University of Alberta, specializing in racial politics in science.[1] TallBear was educated at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Santa Cruz, where she was advised by Donna Haraway[2] and Professor Emeritus James Clifford (historian).[3]

A member of the Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association,[4] in late 2016 she became the first ever Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment.[5] An anthropologist specialising in the intersection of science and technology with culture, TallBear is a frequent media commentator on issues of Tribal membership, genetics and identity.[6][7][8] Her first book, Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science, was released in 2013 by the University of Minnesota Press. Described as a "provocative and incisive work of interdisciplinary scholarship",[9] the book discusses the marketing of DNA testing as something capable of determining ancestry and race, and the ways in which it shades into racial science.[10]

In more recent work, including a keynote at the National Women's Studies Association meeting in 2016, TallBear has focused on sexuality, specifically on decolonizing the valorization of monogamy that she characterizes as emblematic of "settler sexualities."[11] This builds on work she has been doing in a blog written under an alter ego, "The Critical Polyamorist."[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Kim TallBear". Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Kim TallBear - Faculty of Native Studies" (PDF). University of Alberta. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Kim TallBear - Faculty of Native Studies" (PDF). University of Alberta. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "NAISA - Kim TallBear". Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  5. ↑ Clancy, Clare (December 2, 2016). "University of Alberta receives $11.9 million for Canada Research Chairs". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  6. ↑ Cram, Stephanie (April 10, 2016). "New era of genetic research must include more indigenous people, says Keolu Fox". CBC News. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  7. ↑ Geddes, Linda (5 February 2014). "'There is no DNA test to prove you're Native American'". New Scientist. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  8. ↑ "Sorry, that DNA test doesn't make you Indigenous". CBC Radio. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. November 6, 2016.
  9. ↑ Dennison, Jean (17 July 2014). "Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. John Wiley. 28 (4). ISSN 1548-1387.
  10. ↑ "Native American dna: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science". Journal of American History. 101 (3). doi:10.1093/jahist/jau638.
  11. ↑ 2016 NWSA Friday Plenary: Decolonizing Institutions, retrieved 2017-10-13
  12. ↑ The Critical Polyamorist
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