Circe Sturm

Circe Sturm
Born
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)Anthropologist, actress
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Davis
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas, Austin
Main interestsRacial studies

Circe Sturm is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin.[1] She is also an actress, appearing mainly in films and commercials.[2][3]

Background

Circe Dawn Sturm was born in Houston, Texas. She identifies her father as being of Mississippi Choctaw descent and her mother as being Italian American.[4]

Career

Sturm has written two books on Cherokee identity. Blood Politics (2002) presents results of her ethnographic fieldwork in the Cherokee Nation from 1995 to 1998.[5] Becoming Indian (2011) discusses the concept of race shifting:[6] how a rapidly growing number of people in the United States are self-identifying as Native American – usually, as Cherokee – without any documentation to support their claims.[7] Race shifting is not just confined to the United States, but has also been observed in Canada.[8][9] Sturm has been interviewed on issues relating to Cherokee identity, such as the Cherokee Freedmen controversy[10][11] and Elizabeth Warren's claims to Cherokee ancestry.[12]

Before joining UT Austin, Sturm taught at the University of Oklahoma.[13]

Selected publications

  • Blood Politics: Race, Culture and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma[5]
  • Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century[7]
  • "Reflections on the anthropology of sovereignty and settler colonialism: lessons from Native North America."[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Profile for Circe Sturm at UT Austin". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  2. ^ "Circe Sturm". IMDb. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  3. ^ "Circe Sturm". Circe Sturm. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  4. ^ Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, ed. (2018). "Circe Sturm on Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon of racial shifting". Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders. foreword by Robert Warrior. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-1-4529-5714-2. OCLC 1033547171.
  5. ^ a b Sturm, Circe (2002). Blood Politics: Race, Culture and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93608-9. OCLC 52996181.
  6. ^ Leroux, Darryl. "Bibliography". Raceshifting. Archived from the original on July 1, 2019. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  7. ^ a b Sturm, Circe (2011). Becoming Indian: The Struggle Over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century (1st ed.). Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press. ISBN 978-1-934691-44-1. OCLC 671541010.
  8. ^ Leroux, Darryl; Gaudry, Adam (October 25, 2017). "Becoming Indigenous: The rise of Eastern Métis in Canada". The Conversation. Archived from the original on October 26, 2017. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  9. ^ "A 'little bit Indigenous'?". Metis Nation News. September 24, 2019. Archived from the original on March 27, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  10. ^ "The Fight to Be Called Cherokee | The Takeaway". WNYC. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  11. ^ Mays, Kyle (July 20, 2015). "Still waiting: Cherokee Freedman say they're not going anywhere". Indian Country Today. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  12. ^ "Warren still dogged by past claims of Indigenous ancestry". PBS NewsHour. February 27, 2020. Archived from the original on February 28, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  13. ^ "Circe Sturm". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale. 2008.
  14. ^ Sturm, Circe (August 19, 2017). "Reflections on the Anthropology of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism: Lessons from Native North America". Cultural Anthropology. 32 (3): 340–348. doi:10.14506/ca32.3.03. ISSN 1548-1360.