Rate My Professor Jenell Navarro

Jenell Navarro is a Professor in the Ethnic Studies Department at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she joined the faculty in 2012. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from Claremont Graduate University, earned in 2011. Navarro's scholarly work centers on Indigenous Studies and Hip-Hop Studies, with additional expertise in Latina/o Studies—particularly Indigenous Latina/o Studies—as well as women of color feminism, cultural studies, and decolonial studies. Her publications explore intersections of indigeneity, hip-hop, anti-violence activism, and resistance to settler colonialism and anti-Blackness. She co-edited the anthology Otherwise Worlds: Against Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness (Duke University Press, 2020) with Tiffany Lethabo King and Andrea Smith, contributing the introduction "Beyond Incommensurability: Towards an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality" and the chapter "The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey" (with Kimberly Robertson). Other key works include "Leading with Our Hearts: Anti-Violence Action and Beadwork Circles as Colonial Resistance" (with Laura Harjo and Kimberly Robertson) in Keetsahnak: Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters (University of Alberta Press, 2018); "Braided Together: Native and Black Hip-Hop Against Police Violence" (with José Navarro) forthcoming in Thinking about Hip-Hop: Blackness, Indigeneity, and Identity; "The Promise of the Jaguar: Indigeneity in Contemporary Chican@ Graphic Art" in rEvista (2017); "WORD: Hip-Hop, Language, and Indigeneity in the Americas" in Journal of Critical Sociology (2016); and "Solariz-ing Native Hip-Hop: Native Feminist Land Ethics and Cultural Resistance" in Journal of Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society (2014).