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Professor Shannon Speed Director, UCLA American Indian Studies Center Professor, Gender Studies and AnthropologyCampbell Hall 3220A Ph. (310) 206-9673 eMail: sspeed@aisc.ucla.edu |
Biographical Information
Shannon Speed is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She is Director of the American Indian Studies Center (AISC) and Professor of Gender Studies and Anthropology at UCLA. Dr. Speed has worked for the last two decades in Mexico and in the United States on issues of indigenous autonomy, sovereignty, gender, neoliberalism, violence, migration, social justice, and activist research. She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in English and Spanish, as well as published six books and edited volumes, including her most recent, Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants in the Settler Capitalist State.