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Chris Finley

Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email cfinley@usc.edu

Research & Practice Areas

Indigenous Feminisms, Queer Indigenous studies, visual culture, decolonization

Education

  • Ph.D. American Culture, University of Michigan, 12/2012
    • Race and Gender Postdoctoral Fellowship, Rutgers University, 2015-2016

  • Summary Statement of Research Interests

    In my research, writing and teaching, I critique how dominant U.S. popular culture sexualizes Native bodies as culturally and, therefore, racially unable to conform to white heteroreproductive norms.I argue that in order to provide a successful critique of settler colonialism within American studies, Native studies must address the negative implications of biopower through the relationship between sexuality, Native peoples, and gender.

    Research Keywords

    Indigenous Feminisms, Queer Indigenous studies, visual culture, decolonization