Jen Rose Smith
Title: Assistant Professor of Geography and American Indian Studies
Education
Research Areas
I am a dAXunhyuu (Eyak, Alaska Native) geographer interested in the intersections of coloniality, race, and indigeneity as read through aesthetic and literary contributions, archival evidences, and experiential embodied knowledges. I serve on an all-Native women advisory board for the Eyak Cultural Foundation, a non-profit that organizes annual language and cultural revitalization gatherings, and directs a Cultural Mapping Project in their homelands of Eyak, Alaska. I am also an Editor as part of the Editorial Collective at the journal ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies. Please contact me if you have questions regarding ACME submissions.
Current Research
My book manuscript, Icy Matters: Race, Indigeneity, and Coloniality in Ice-Geographies, undertakes an analysis of coloniality and racialization in icy locales to demonstrate how ice has been a foundational object for making sense of the world and beyond. Specifically, I analyze ice in three formations: ice as a material entity and terrain of conflict; ice as a cultural and scientific imaginary; and ice as an analytic that produces a temporalized, universal logic of human historicity and futurity. By centering ice, the book investigates the milieu and non-human relations as sites and sources of analysis that are integrally bound up with colonial and racial formations.
Courses Taught
Recent Publications
Smith, Jen Rose. "“Exceeding Beringia”: Upending Universal Human Events and Wayward Transits in Arctic Spaces." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2020).
https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775820950745
Contact Information
Website: http://www.jen-rose-smith.com
Email: jrsmith39@wisc.edu