Pauline Turner Strong

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Pauline Turner Strong is an American anthropologist specializing in literary, historical, ethnographic, media, and popular representations of Native Americans. Theoretically her work has considered colonial and postcolonial representation, identity and alterity, and hybridity. She has also researched intercultural captivity narratives, intercultural adoption practices, and the appropriation of Native American symbols and practices in U.S. sports and youth organizations.

She received a B.A. in philosophy from Colorado College, and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago, where she studied with Raymond D. Fogelson and George W. Stocking, Jr.

She is professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at the University of Texas, Austin, where she is also director of the Humanities Institute.^[1] In 2006 she received the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award from the University of Texas at Austin.^[2]