Rate My Professor Joanne Barker

Barker's major publications include the monograph Red Scare: State Discourses of the Indigenous Terrorist (University of California Press, 2021), which was awarded the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book Prize. She is also the author of Native Acts: Law, Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity (Duke University Press, 2011). As editor, she produced Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (Duke University Press, 2017) and Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). Notable articles include "Territory as Analytic: The Dispossession of Lenapehoking and the Subprime Crisis" in Social Text (2018), "Decolonizing the Mind" in Rethinking Marxism (2018), "The Corporation and the Tribe" in American Indian Quarterly (2015), and "Self-Determination" in Critical Ethnic Studies (2015). She guest-edited the special issue "Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism" for the American Indian Culture and Research Journal (2020). During the 2022-23 academic year, Barker was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Indigenous Studies in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Additionally, she serves on the board of the Sogorea Te Land Trust.