Bringing indigenous & feminist science studies to Meiji University in Tokyo
L to R: H. Arai, M. Hakoda, M. Yamaguchi, K. TallBear, K. Kinase, and K. Ando Through a UC Berkeley-Meiji University exchange program, I have had the honor this month [...]
Can UC administrator responses to Occupy Cal be explained by their STEM field backgrounds?
Image: http://www.commondreams.org/further/2011/11/19. I blogged last week about my new research project with Native American bio-scientists who explicitly situate themselves within histories of marginization from the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) [...]
SACNAS: Beyond “diversity and inclusion,” making science more multicultural and democratic
I began writing this blog in the sterile, spacious, marble-floored San Jose, CA Convention Center, where I attended the largest ever annual meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in [...]
Genographic back in the news: badly organized genetic sampling of indigenes in Peru
On October 9, 2010, I posted a blog entry (re-posted below) in which I respond with a mixed review to the Genographic/Seaconke Wampanoag jointly-authored publication "Genetic Heritage and Native Identity of the Seaconke Wampanoag" (Zhadanov et al 2010). [...]
Genographic and the Seaconke Wampanoag (originally posted 10/09/2010)
An article out this year in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology highlights the potential incongruence between Native American identity and genetic ancestry. (Thanks to geneticist Bryan Sykes for tipping me off to it. How had I missed it?) [...]
Symposium: Why the animal? queer animalities, indigenous naturecultures, and critical race approaches to animal studies – April 12th, UC Berkeley
photo: jonathan goldberg-hiller On April 12, 2011 I organized (in concert with UC Berkeley's Science, Technology, and Society Center--STSC) this syposium that brought together animal studies scholars in queer and critical race [...]