Kim TallBear | |
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Born | 1968 (age 55–56) Pipestone, Minnesota, Minnesota, U.S. |
Nationality | Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate |
Title | Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Massachusetts at Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Santa Cruz |
Doctoral advisor | Donna Haraway |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Indigenous studies, Anthropology |
Institutions | University of Alberta |
Website | kimtallbear |
Kim TallBear (born 1968) is a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor at the University of Alberta, specializing in racial politics in science.[1] Holding the first ever Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, TallBear has published on DNA testing, race science and Indigenous identities, as well as on polyamory as a decolonization practice.