Bayley J. Marquez

Bayley J. Marquez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies, an affiliate faculty with the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Consortium for Race Gender and Ethnicity, and an Indigenous scholar from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. As an Indigenous scholar, she acknowledges that her work and scholarship takes place on Piscataway land, former plantation land, and within a land grant university funded by the seizure and sale of Indigenous lands. With a focus on space, land, material relations, and schooling, this acknowledgement is necessary to position her work within the structure of settler colonialism and her own lived experiences. Her research interests include settler colonial theory, Indigenous education, Black education, the history of education, abolitionist university studies, and critical ethnic studies. Her academic work is positioned at the intersection of settlement, antiblackness, imperialism and other instantiations of racialized and colonial power.

Her book, Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space (UC Press) examines education for Black and Indigenous students in the 19th and 20th centuries and how slavery and settlement were framed as educative processes by white reformers and educators. This form of teaching targeted Native and Black bodies as subjects to transform as well as the land as a target of teaching and transformation, fundamentally altering spaces and lives. This work was generously supported by the Ford Foundation, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, The Independent Scholarship, Research, and Creativity Award at UMD, the ARHU Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, and the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkley. Dr. Marquez’s work has been published in American Quarterly, Feminist Formations, and The Dubois Review.