Stephanie Lumsden
Biography
Stephanie Lumsden is a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe in Northern California. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Gender Studies department at UCLA and a lecturer in Ethnic Studies at Mills College. She is also a recipient of the 2020/2021 Ford Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Her dissertation project examines the relationship between ongoing Indigenous dispossession and carceral statecraft in northwestern California.
Research Interests
Native feminisms, Critical Indigenous studies, Prison studies, Abolition, Black feminism, Resistance, Refusal and Resurgence