Inaugural Lecture in American Studies, Audra Simpson, “Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow”

Thursday, September 21, 4:00-5:30 HQ L01

Audra Simpson, Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University 

Author of the award-winning book Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States, Audra Simpson is a political anthropologist whose work is rooted within Indigenous polities in the US and Canada and crosses the fields of anthropology, Indigenous Studies, American and Canadian Studies, gender and sexuality studies as well as politics.

Reception to follow in Humanities Quadrangle Courtyard