Joanne Barker
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Joanne Barker
Lenape (Delaware Tribe of Indians)
Associate Professor, American Indian Studies, San Francisco State University
Joanne Barker is an enrolled member of the Lenape nation of eastern Oklahoma [the Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, Oklahoma]. She is also of Norwegian and Irish descent. She was born and raised in southern California. She graduated with a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature with Honors in the Humanities from the University of California, Irvine, in 1991. She earned her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2000. Her dissertation was entitled "Indian-Made": Sovereignty and the Work of Identification.
From 2000-2001, Barker was a lecturer in the American Indian Studies Department at San Francisco State University and the Native American Studies Department at the University of California, Davis. From 2001-2003, she held a tenure-track appointment in Native American Studies at UCD. In 2003, she accepted an offer from the American Indian Studies Department at San Francisco State University. She served as department chair for five years, during which time the department established a B.A. degree program and hired two faculty. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2007 and tenured in 2008. Along with other Native faculty on campus, she was involved in securing the revolution of the SFSU NAGPRA Program, including its more active consultation and collaboration with Native peoples whose ancestors and cultural items are held by the university and its relocation out of the Anthropology Department and under the administration of the Vice President and Provost of Academic Affairs.
Since 2003, Barker has held the Ford Foundation Fellowship with an association at the Center for Race & Gender at the University of California, Berkeley (2005-2006), the SFSU Presidential Sabbatical Award (Spring 2010), and a position as Visiting Scholar in the American Indian Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles (2010-2011).
She serves as Chair of the Nomination’s Committee of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
Her publications include the following:
Books
Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011. [1]
Edited Books
Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. Contemporary Indigenous Issues Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Articles and Essays
“Gender.” 2012. The Indigenous World of North America. Robert Warrior, ed. New York: Routledge Press.
“The Recognition of NAGPRA: A Human Rights Promise Deferred.” 2012. Sovereignty Struggles and Native Rights in the United States: State and Federal Recognition. Amy E. Den Ouden and Jean M. O’Brien, editors. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
“Indigenous Feminisms.” 2011. Handbook on Indigenous People’s Politics. Donna Lee Van Cott, Jose Antonio Lucero, and Dale Turner, eds. New York: Oxford University Press.
"Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7, no. 1 (2006), 127-161.
"Recognition." Special joint issue of Indigenous Nations Journal and American Studies 46, nos. 3/4 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006), 117-145.
“For Whom Sovereignty Matters.” 2005. Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. Contemporary Indigenous Issues Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1-32.
"The Human Genome Diversity Project: 'Peoples', 'Populations', and the Cultural Politics of Identification." Cultural Studies 18, no. 4 (2004), 578-613.
"Indian™ U.S.A." Wicazō Śa Review: A Native American Studies Journal 18, no. 1 (2003), 24-79.
“Looking for Warrior Woman (Beyond Pocahontas)." this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation. AnaLouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. (New York: Routledge Press, 2002, 314-325). Reprinted in, though originally written for, Beyond the Frame. Neferti Tadiar and Angela Davis, eds. (New York: Palgrave Press, 2005, 61-76).
For More Information
Faculty Page http://online.sfsu.edu/~jmbarker
