Robert Warrior (born 1963, Osage), is a scholar and Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas. With Paul Chaat Smith, he co-authored Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.[1] He is generally recognized, along with Craig Womack, as being one of the founders of American Indian literary nationalism.[2] Warrior served as president of the American Studies Association from 2016 to 2017.[3]
Early life and education
editRobert Allen Warrior was born in Marion County, Kansas, in 1963.[4] Warrior belongs to the Grayhorse District of the Osage Nation.[5]
He earned a bachelor's degree in speech communication from Pepperdine University, a master's degree in religion from Yale University, and a doctoral degree in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.[5]
Career
editIn 1999, Warrior taught at Cornell University.[4] Warrior previously taught at Stanford University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Illinois.[1] He has served as president of the American Studies Association (ASA) and helped found the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).[5]
Honors
editIn 2018, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted Warrior.[6]
Publications
edit- The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)[1] ISBN 978-0-81664-617-3, part of the Indigenous Americas series
- with Paul Chaat Smith, Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (The New Press, 1996)[1] ISBN 978-1-56584-402-5
- Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (University of Minnesota Press, 1994)[1] ISBN 978-0-81662-379-2
- Canaanites, cowboys, and Indians Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 59(1-2), 1–8.
- co-author of American Indian Literary Nationalism (University of New Mexico Press, 2008)[1]
- co-author of Reasoning Together: the Native Critics Collective (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009).[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f g "Robert Warrior". Department of American Studies. University of Kansas. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
- ^ Pulitano, Elvira (2003). Toward a Native American Critical Theory (1st ed.). Nebraska University Press. p. 60. ISBN 9780803237377.
- ^ "2016-2017 President Robert Warrior | ASA".
- ^ a b Rahm-Barnett, Shay, ed. (Fall 2011). "Robert Allen Warrior". New Plains Review. 12 (1). Edmond, OK: 68. ISBN 9780983735700. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
- ^ a b c "2016-2017 President Robert Warrior". American Studies Association. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
- ^ Duty, Shannon Shaw (17 May 2018). "Dr. Robert Warrior named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Osage News. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
External links
edit- Publisher webpage for Like a Hurricane
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