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Jodi Byrd
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Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisColonialism's Cacophony: Natives and Arrivants at the Limits of Postcolonial Theory (2002)
Doctoral advisorMary Lou Emery
Academic work
Institutions

Jodi Ann Byrd is an American Indigenous academic. They are an associate professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University, where they also hold an affiliation with the American Studies Program. Their research applies critical theory to Indigenous studies and governance, science and technology studies, game studies, indigenous feminism and indigenous sexualities. They also possess research interests in American Indian Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Digital Media, Theory & Criticism.

Personal

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Byrd is the child of physician John Byron Byrd (1944–2008)[1] and a great-grandniece of William L. Byrd, who served as governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1888 to 1890 and 1890 to 1892.[2][3] They are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation.[4][5]

Education, career, and service

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Byrd holds a master's degree and Ph.D. (2002) in English literature from the University of Iowa. Their dissertation was Colonialism's Cacophony: Natives and Arrivants at the Limits of Postcolonial Theory.[6] Before teaching at Cornell, they taught at the University of Illinois, and before that they were an assistant professor of indigenous politics in the department of political science of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[7]

They were formerly associated with the American Indian Studies Program at Illinois. In the wake of the Illinois administration's failure to hire Steven Salaita into the program, whom they had championed as acting director of the program, they considered offers to move to three other universities. However, the University of Illinois persuaded them to stay and provided them an alternative position in the English and Gender and Women's Studies departments.[8][9]

They are the co-editor of the Critical Insurgencies series for Northwestern University Press.[10] They were president of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures for 2011–2012.[11] In 2012, they were adopted as a Clan Sister (one of the central organizing members) of the Native American Literature Symposium, which they have stated has been an inspiring community for them since their first days as a graduate student.[12] Byrd has also served as an editorial board member for the journal Critical Ethnic Studies.[13]

Awards and recognition

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Byrd's 2011 book The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism won the 2011 Best First Book of the Year award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association,[14] and the 2012 Wordcraft Circle Award for Academic Work of the Year.[15] Earlier, Byrd won the 2008 Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies of the Native American Literature Symposium for their paper "Living my native life deadly: Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the discourses of competing genocides" (American Indian Quarterly, 2007).[16]

Selected works

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Books

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Library resources about
Jodi Byrd
By Jodi Byrd
  • The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (University of Minnesota Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0816676415).[17]

Journal articles

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  • "Living My Native Life Deadly": Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides[18]

References

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  1. ^ "John B. Byrd MD". Levander Funeral Homes. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  2. ^ Morgan, Phillip C. (2013). Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors, Their Lives and Intellectual Legacy. Ada: Chickasaw Press. ISBN 978-1-935684-10-7. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  3. ^ "William Byrd Elected as governor". Chickasaw.TV. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  4. ^ "Faculty profile Dept. of English". Jodi A. Byrd.
  5. ^ Bullard, Laura (2018-12-21). "Who Gets to Decide Who I Am? On Native Identity, Tribal Enrollment, and Federal Recognition". Jezebel. Retrieved 2019-01-04. According to Jodi Byrd, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation whose research focuses on Critical Indigenous studies and governance, base rolls 'transformed community identity into an individualistic self—traced through a paper trail.'
  6. ^ "Recent Dissertations". American Indian Quarterly. 26 (4): 659–662. 2002. doi:10.1353/aiq.2004.0004.
  7. ^ Farnell, Brenda (March 2007). "Native Women's Resurgence at UIUC". The Public i.
  8. ^ Wirth, Julie (29 August 2016). "Post-Salaita: UI program's future unclear". The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana).
  9. ^ Gardner, Lee (1 September 2016). "How the Salaita Incident Imperiled the Program That Tried to Hire Him". The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  10. ^ "Critical Insurgencies". Northwestern University Press. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
  11. ^ "Officers". Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  12. ^ Howe, LeAnne (April 2017). "Four Things You Likely Didn't Know About NALS". Wasafiri. 32 (2): 54–56. doi:10.1080/02690055.2017.1293887. S2CID 164433238.
  13. ^ "Critical Ethnic Studies (Journal)". University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 2019-10-14.
  14. ^ "Previous publication prize winners". Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
  15. ^ "Honors and Awards 2012". Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. Archived from the original on 5 July 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  16. ^ "Awards". Native American Literature Symposium. 27 September 2016. Archived from the original on December 29, 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  17. ^ Reviews of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism:
  18. ^ Byrd, Jodi A. (2007-05-10). ""Living My Native Life Deadly": Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides". The American Indian Quarterly. 31 (2): 310–332. doi:10.1353/aiq.2007.0018. ISSN 1534-1828. S2CID 161516062.
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