Circe Sturm

Circe Sturm
Born
Houston, Texas
NationalityAmerican
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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

  • 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[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Profile for Circe Sturm at UT Austin". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  2. ^ "Circe Sturm". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  3. ^ "Circe Sturm". Circe Sturm. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  4. ^ "Circe Sturm on Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon of racial shifting". Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders. Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968-, Warrior, Robert Allen. Minneapolis. ISBN 978-1-4529-5714-2. OCLC 1033547171.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. ^ a b Sturm, Circe, 1967- (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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Leroux, Darryl. "Bibliography". Raceshifting. Archived from the original on 2019-07-01. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  7. ^ a b Sturm, Circe, 1967- (2011). Becoming Indian : the struggle over Cherokee identity in the twenty-first century (1st ed.). Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press. ISBN 978-1-934691-44-1. OCLC 671541010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Leroux, Darryl; Gaudry, Adam (October 25, 2017). "Becoming Indigenous: The rise of Eastern Métis in Canada". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  9. ^ "A 'little bit Indigenous'?". Metis Nation News. 2019-09-24. Archived from the original on 2020-03-27. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  10. ^ "The Fight to Be Called Cherokee | The Takeaway". WNYC. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  11. ^ Mays, Kyle (July 20, 2015). "Still waiting: Cherokee Freedman say they're not going anywhere". Indian Country Today. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  12. ^ "Warren still dogged by past claims of Indigenous ancestry". PBS NewsHour. 2020-02-27. Archived from the original on 2020-02-28. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  13. ^ "Circe Sturm". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale. 2008.
  14. ^ Sturm, Circe (2017-08-19). "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.
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