Joanne Barker, Ph.D. Lenape (Delaware Tribe of Indians) Associate Professor
Contact Information Publications Presentations Biographical Statement
Contact Information American Indian Studies Department College of Ethnic Studies San Francisco State University 1600 Holloway Avenue San Francisco, CA 94132 Office: EP 103B Office/Voicemail: (415) 338-2701 FAX: (415) 405-0496 Email: jmbarker@sfsu.edu Fall Schedule AIS 460: Power and Politics in AI History (TTh 2:00-3:25 BH 225) AIS 694: Community Service Learning (1-3 Units, Variable, Arranged) Office Hours: Th 3:30-5:00 NAGPRA at SFSU If you are looking for information about NAGPRA or upcoming community meetings, go to the department website and click on the link to NAGPRA.	Publications Books Editor, Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination. Contemporary Indigenous Issues Series. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Articles & Chapters And Teresia Teaiwa. "Native InFormation." Special Issue on Women of Color in Collaboration and Conflict edited by Maria Ochoa and Teresia Teaiwa. Inscriptions 7 (Fall 1994), 16-41. "Looking for Warrior Woman (Beyond Pocahontas)." this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation. AnaLouise Keating and Gloria Anzaldúa, eds. (New York: Routledge Press, 2002), 314-25. Reprinted in, though originally written for, Beyond the Frame. Neferti Tadiar and Angela Davis, eds. (New York: Palgrave Press, 2005). "Indian™ U.S.A." Wicazō Śa Review: A Native American Studies Journal 18(1) 2003, 24-79. "The Human Genome Diversity Project: 'Peoples', 'Populations', and the Cultural Politics of Identification." Cultural Studies 18(4) 2004, 578-613. "Recognition." Special joint issue of Indigenous Nations Journal and American Studies 46(3/4) Fall 2005/Spring 2006, 117-145. And Clayton Dumont, "Contested Conversations: Presentations, Expectations, and Responsibility at the National Museum of the American Indian." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 30(2) 2006. "Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7(1) 2006, 127-161. Being reprinted as an excerpt in a special issue section of American Quarterly (June 2008). Presentations Native American and Indigenous Studies: Who Are We? Where Are We Going? Institute of Native American Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, April 10-12, 2008. Thursday, April 10, 11:00-12:45: Roundtable Discussion: The New Politics and Problems of US Federal Recognition Chair: Jean O'Brien Participants: J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Amy Den Ouden, Malinda Maynor, and Joanne Barker. Saturday, April 12, 10:00-11:45: Native American Studies as a Discipline Chair: Ervan Garrison Joanne Barker, "The Territoriality of NAS: Perspectives from AIS at SFSU" Duane Champagne, "Tricksters, States, and Ceremonies" Jace Weaver, "More Heat than Light: NAS, Is It A Discipline?" The 5th Annual SFSU Human Rights Summit, April 30-May 2, 2008. Friday, May 2, 10:00-11:30: Repatriation as a Human Right. Melissa Nelson, James Riding In, Clay Dumont, and Manuel Pino Discussant: Joanne Barker
	Biographical Statement Joanne Barker is a citizen of the Lenape nation (the Delaware Tribe of Indians [Bartlesville, Oklahoma]). She earned her Ph.D. in June 2000 from the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she specialized in Native law and politics, women's/gender studies, and cultural studies. She is associate professor in the American Indian Studies Department at San Francisco State University. She has been the recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship and the Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. She has published articles in numerous journals and edited and wrote the introduction to Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (University of Nebraska Press, 2005). She is currently completing her book, Native Acts, contracted with Duke University Press. She is much involved in NAGPRA and related issues of Native cultural self-determination at SFSU.
	Updated: August 10, 2008