Associate Professor, American Indian Studies; Co-Director, Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Fields of Interest
Biography
Jean Dennison (Osage Nation) is Co-director for the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies and an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. Her book Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First-Century Osage Nation (UNC Press 2012) speaks directly to national revitalization, one of the most pressing issues facing American Indians today. The primary goal of her academic endeavor is to explore how Indigenous peoples negotiate and contest the ongoing settler colonial process in areas such as citizenship, governance, and sovereignty.
Research
Selected Research
- Dennison, Jean. Vital Relations: How the Osage Nation Moves Indigenous Nationhood into the Future. University of North Carolina Press, April 2024.
- Final Projects from AIS 102, Intro to American Indian Studies, Autumn 2020
- Jean Dennison, Colonial Entanglement: Constituting a Twenty-First Century Osage Nation. UNC Press, 2012.