Jen Rose Smith

Jen Rose Smith is 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. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Comparative Ethnic Studies and her Master's Degree from the same department, and holds a BA in English Literature and the Environment from the University of Alaska, Southeast. Her book Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic is forthcoming from Duke University Press, and she has published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vogue Magazine, and The Geographical Journal.