Mishuana Goeman Author

Mishuana Goeman, Tonawanda Band of Seneca, is an Associate Professor of Gender and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She received her doctorate from Stanford University's Modern Thought and Literature and was a UC Presidential Post-doctoral fellow at Berkeley. Her book was honored at the American Association for Geographic Perspectives on Women. She has published in several peer reviewed journals and has guest edited journal volumes on Native Feminisms and Indigenous Performances. She has also co-authored a book chapter in Handbook for GenderEquity on "Gender Equity for American Indians," a chapter on visual geographies and settler colonialism in Theorizing Native Studies, and a chapter on trauma, geography, and decolonization in Native Feminisms. Currently she is also part of a grant on Mapping Indigenous L.A. that is working toward creating a community oriented mobile application that decolonizes the LA landscape. Her interdisciplinary process enables her to implement a plan that tackles the complexity of Los Angeles Indigeneity and landscapes.