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August 2008
Audra Simpson (Mohawk) is
from the Kahnawake Reserve in Quebec and is an Assistant Professor
of anthropology at Columbia University, with theoretical and ethnographic
interest in the topics of nationhood, citizenship, colonialism,
borders (US-Canada) and narrative. She is the recipient of fellowships
and awards from Fulbright, the National Aboriginal Achievement
Foundation, Dartmouth College, the American Anthropological Association,
Cornell University, and most recently the Katrin Lamon Fellowship
at the School of Advanced Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Simpson's
book manuscript, To the Reserve and Back Again: Kahnawake Mohawk
Narratives of Self, Home and Nation is under contract with
Duke University Press. She was the volume editor of Recherches
Ameriendiennes au Quebec (1999) on "New Directions in
Iroquois Studies," and her scholarly work has appeared in
numerous publications and volumes. Simpson holds a Ph.D. in anthropology
from McGill University.
Image credit: Audience
at Club Red Radio, 2000 Native American Film and Video Festival
- Photograph by Amalia Córdova, NMAI
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