Kim TallBear
Kim TallBear | |
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TallBear in 2017 | |
| Born | 1968 (age 57–58) Pipestone, Minnesota, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Citizenship | Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate and U.S. |
| Title | Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Massachusetts at Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Texas Christian University |
| Doctoral advisor | Donna Haraway |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Indigenous studies, Anthropology |
| Institutions | University of Alberta |
| Website | kimtallbear |
Kim TallBear (born 1968) is a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, specializing in racial politics in science. Holding the first ever Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment, TallBear has published on DNA testing, race science and Indigenous identities, as well as on polyamory as a decolonization practice.