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The UBC D epartment of English Language & Literatures\, UBC Institute for Critical In digenous Studies (CIS) and Indigenous Critical & Creative Studies (ICCS) ar e pleased to welcome Dr. Robert Warrior (Osage Nation) as our visiting scho lar for the 2025 Sedgewick Lecture. The event will take place in p erson on Tuesday\, September 16th from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm in Buchanan Tower 323. We hope to see you there!
Dr. Rob ert Warrior is Hall Distingushed Professor of American literature and cultu re at the University of Kanas. An enrolled member of the Osage Nation\, he is the author of The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction\, co-au thor of American Indian Literary Nationalism\, part of the Native Critics C ollective that published Reasoning Together\, co-author of Like a Hurricane : The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (with Paul Chaat Smith) and Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions. He has recently published an edited volume\, The World of Indigenous North Am erica (Routledge). He has also edited the NAIS (journal of the Native Ameri can and Indigenous Studies Association)\, and edited the book series\, Indi genous Americas for the University of Minnesota Press.
Warrior has se rved the ASA in numerous roles\, including as a member of the elected Natio nal Council and its Executive Committee (2009-12)\, two times as a co-chair of the Program Committee (2007-8\, 2014-15)\, and as a member of the Progr am Committee. Warrior was a member of the six-member steering committee and then acting council that founded the Native American and Indigenous Studie s Association. In 2010\, he was elected NAISA's founding president and is n ow (with Jean O’Brien) serving as founding co-editor of NAISA’s scholarly j ournal.
He holds degrees from Union Theological Seminary (Ph.D.\, Sys tematic Theology)\, Yale University (M.A.\, Religion)\, and Pepperdine Univ ersity (B.A. summa cum laude\, Speech Communication). He has also served as an appointed official in the Osage Nation government and is a member of th e committee responsible for maintaining the Osage ceremonial in-losh-ka dan ce in the Grayhorse district.
Along with his scholarly work\, he has worked on numerous film projects\, including the final episode of WGBH-Bost on’s “We Shall Remain\,’ which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival\, an d the History Channel’s “America: The Story of Us.” His academic and journa listic writing has appeared in a wide variety of publications\, including A merican Quarterly\, PMLA\, MLA’s Profession\, Interventions\, News from Ind ian Country\, Indian Country Today Media Network\, Village Voice\, UTNE Rea der\, and High Times. In 2011\, he and his coauthors were the inaugural rec ipients of the Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarly Writing from the Nativ e American Literature Symposium. Warrior has also received awards from the Gustavus Myers Foundation\, the Native American Journalists Association\, t he Church Press Association\, and others. He has lectured in a wide variety of places\, including Lebanon\, Guatemala\, Mexico\, France\, Malaysia\, T aiwan\, and Canada.
Garnett Sedge wick was a professor in the Department of English at UBC from 1918 to 1948. Professor Sedgewick specialized in Shakespeare and Chaucer. In 1920\, he b ecame the first Head of the Department.
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