Research Bio

Shari Huhndorf is Class of 1938 Professor of Native American Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies. She is the author of three books including, most recently, Native Lands: Culture and Gender in Indigenous Territorial Claims (University of California Press, 2024). Her previous books include Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination (Cornell University Press, 2001) and Mapping the Americas: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture (Cornell University Press, 2009), along with the co-edited volume Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture (University of British Columbia Press, 2010), winner of the Canadian Women's Studies Association prize for Outstanding Scholarship. Her work has also appeared in journals including Critical Inquiry, Signs, PMLA, American Quarterly, American Anthropologist, and South Atlantic Quarterly. She has received major fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Association of University Women. Currently she is completing a community history of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, the largest Indigenous land claims settlement in US history.

Research Expertise and Interest

interdisciplinary Native American studies, Alaska Native studies, cultural studies, gender studies, American studies, literary and visual culture