Dr. Natchee Barnd
262 Waldo Hall
541-737-1113
natchee.barnd@oregonstate.edu
Dr. Natchee Barnd (Ojibwe)
Boozhoo/Hello. I am a comparative and critical ethnic studies scholar interested in the intersections between ethnic studies, cultural geography, and indigenous studies. My research focuses on issues of race, space, and indigenous geographies. I am currently working to publish my first book on the use of Indianness in the production of social and cultural spaces. I also write on pedagogy, contemporary media, and popular culture, and have begun comparative work on spatiality and indigeneity in English settler colony nations (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States). In spring 2013, I will be part of a gobal learning community which will help me develop a course linking indigenous students and universities across the globe.
I have worked extensively with on-campus cultural centers, with a special emphasis on combining scholarship, mentoring, and community building. Before joining Oregon State University I taught at a number of schools, including San Francisco State University and UC San Diego.
- PhD and MA in Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego
- MA in American Indian Studies, UCLA
- BA in Ethnic Studies and Philosophy, Sonoma State University
Courses 2012-2013
- Fall 2012 -- Federal-Indian Relations in 19th Century US and Canada
- Winter 2013 -- Environmental Racism
- Winter 2013 -- Native American Experience in the 20th Century US
Take a look at some of my students' work! Based on our learning, here were their perspectives on:
The Most Unexpected Native American Development in the 20th Century
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The Most Discriminatory Act Impacting Native American People in the US
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Josephine Olson Senior, Spanish/French major Lebanon, Oregon |
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Cord McCabe Senior, History & International Studies major Bandon, Oregon |
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Nick Manzke Senior, History major (US Marine) Blain, Minnesota |
- Spring 2013 -- Race, Space, and Difference
This course takes a hands-on approach to exploring how we make space, and why geography is always infused with markers of social identity and exercises of power. We will practice “reading landscapes,” and learn how notions of race and other forms of “difference” shape space (and vice versa) to produce experiences of inclusion, exclusion, cooperation, and conflict. We will address a wide range of topics and spaces while interrogating the meanings of environmental sacrifice zones, "the bad part of town," gated communities, national parks, economic zones, ethnic enclaves, reservations, or even nations. - Fall 2013 -- Center for the Humanities fellowship (no courses)
Publications
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2014-15 (forthcoming manuscript). Inhabiting Indianness. Oregon State University Press (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies Initiative). |
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2013. "White Man's Best Friend:Race and Privilege in Oliver and Company." Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, and Disability. Edited by Johnson Cheu. McFarland Publishers. http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4601-8
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2010. "Inhabiting Indianness: Colonial Culs-de-Sac." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 34(3). http://www.books.aisc.ucla.edu/books/aicrjv34n3.asp
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2008. "A New Era for Teaching American Indian Studies." Teaching Race in the 21st Century: Teachers Talk About Their Fears, Risks, and Rewards. Edited by Lisa Guererro. Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=468813
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Other notes and links:
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Visit the Idle No More website! |
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* Check out this short video featuring one of our Ethnic Studies majors, and showing one entire second of me in action! |
