Shannon Speed
· Professor | Paula Gunn Allen Chair and Professor, American Indian Studies /Gender Studies/Anthropology, Director, American Indian Studies Center Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous AffairsUniversity of California, Los Angeles · American Indian Studies
Active 2000–2025
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About
Shannon Speed is a Professor and the Paula Gunn Allen Chair at UCLA American Indian Studies, with additional appointments in Gender Studies and Anthropology. She serves as the Director of the American Indian Studies Center and is a Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs. Her work focuses on Native American law, Indigenous issues, and the intersection of gender and Indigenous identities. As a key figure in her field, she contributes to academic leadership and policy advising related to Native American communities and Indigenous affairs.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Computer Science
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Social psychology
- Cartography
- Biology
- Geography
- Psychoanalysis
- Environmental science
Selected publications
University of North Carolina Press eBooks · 2019-10-26 · 172 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingIndigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the United States, like all asylum seekers. But as Shannon Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating, given their disproportionate vulnerability to neoliberal economic and political policies and practices in Latin America and the United States, including policing, detention, and human trafficking. Speed dubs this vulne…
Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State
2019-08-27 · 32 citations
book1st authorCorresponding"Incarcerated stories uses ethnography and oral history to document and assess the plight of indigenous women migrants from Mexico and Central America to the United States. Their harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration parallel the worst stories we hear about immigrants' journeys; but as Speed argues, the circumstances for indigenous women are especially devastating against the backdrop of neoliberal economic and political reforms that have taken hold in Latin…
8. Forged in Dialogue: Toward a Critically Engaged Activist Research
2019-12-31 · 28 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingAmerican Anthropologist · 2019-12-30 · 20 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingABSTRACT Since the 2016 presidential election, there has been a resurgence of openly white supremacist discourse and action in the United States. The public debate following the election often suggested that Trump and his followers represented a backlash against the assumed progress of a multicultural and potentially even postracial society. However, the assumption inherent in this perspective, that white supremacy can be voted out or voted back in, is problematic. In this article, based on ten…
Grief and an Indigenous Feminist’s Rage:
University of Arizona Press eBooks · 2021 · 18 citations
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Frequent coauthors
- 6 shared
Lynn Stephen
- 6 shared
Charles R. Hale
- 6 shared
Morna Macleod
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos
- 5 shared
Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo
- 5 shared
Mark Goodale
University of Lausanne
- 4 shared
María Teresa Mata Sierra
- 4 shared
Xóchitl Leyva Solano
- 4 shared
Xochitl Leyva
Labs
American Indian StudiesPI
Education
- 2000
Ph.D., American Indian Studies
University of Oklahoma
- 1995
M.A., American Indian Studies
University of Oklahoma
- 1993
B.A., American Indian Studies
University of Oklahoma
Awards & honors
- President’s Award from the American Anthropological Associat…
- Chickasaw Dynamic Woman of the Year award from the Chickasaw…
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