Kim TallBear
- Arts and Humanities
- American Indian
Introduction
Dr. Kim TallBear is a professor in the Department of American Indian Studies. She researches and organizes against the widespread phenomenon in U.S. and Canadian society of self-indigenization, more colloquially known as “pretendianism.”
Dr. TallBear is an expert in the colonial contexts of genomic and other physical sciences, and works to train Indigenous people in anti-colonial sciences, ethics and policy practices. She also studies how colonialism disrupts sexual formations and practices among Indigenous communities.
In her work, Dr. TallBear also studies and promotes Indigenous scientific and cultural challenges to settler-colonial study and the objectification of Indigenous populations.
Notable Achievements
Dr. TallBear has published research, policy, review, and opinion articles on a variety of issues related to science, technology, environment, sexualities, and Indigenous peoples in academic and popular journals including Wicazo Sa Review; American Indian Culture and Research Journal (AICRJ); Social Studies of Science; Science, Technology, and Human Values (ST&HV); Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Journal of Research Practice, Indian Country Today, Buzzfeed, and High Country News, as well as in edited volumes published by the University of Chicago Press, Routledge, and University of Washington Press. She is widely quoted by media, including Los Angeles Times, New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, CBC, the Aboriginal Peoples’ Television, Network, and The Rolling Stone, for stories covering the variety of topics she studies.