Audra Simpson | |
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| Known for | Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD (Anthropology) McGill University |
| Thesis | To the Reserve and Back Again: Kahnawake Mohawk Narratives of Self, Home and Nation (2004) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bruce Trigger; Colin H. Scott |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropology |
| Sub-discipline | Political Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, American and Canadian Studies, Gender studies, Sexuality Studies. |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Notable ideas | Ethnographic Refusal |
| Website | https://anthropology.columbia.edu/content/audra-simpson |
Audra Simpson is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. Her work engages with Indigenous politics in the United States and Canada and cuts across anthropology, Indigenous studies, Gender studies, and Political science. She has won multiple awards for her book, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. She has also won multiple teaching awards from Columbia University, including the Mark Van Doren Award making her the second anthropologist to win the honour. She is a citizen of the Kahnawà:ke Mohawk Nation.[1]
- ^ Neuman, Lisa K. (2015). "Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States . Audra Simpson . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014. xiii + 260 pp.: Book Reviews". American Ethnologist. 42 (4): 783–784. doi:10.1111/amet.12171.