Research Bio

Brandi Bushman is an interdisciplinary cultural historian with expertise in Native American literature, literary and critical theory, and history and politics of Native California. Her research interests also include histories of social movements and class struggle, Black studies, decolonial theory, and gender and sexuality studies. She broadly examines United States settler colonialism and projects of racialization and capital accumulation in America, as well as the political, social, and affective fallout of such projects for Native American people.

Research Expertise and Interest

Native American studies, indigenous studies, Native California, decolonial theory, social movements