Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land

Join us on November 1st with Dr. Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, author of Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land .

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer is Professor and the Peggy and Jack Baskin Endowed Chair of the Feminist Studies Department and Chair of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests include: Latinx and Indigenous decolonial studies; migration and border studies; and feminist and critical race STS (Science and Technology Studies). Her first book, Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship Across the Americas (2013), follows Internet-mediated marriages across the United States, Colombia, and Mexico alongside neo-colonial fantasies of racial and gendered difference across borders. Her second book, Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land (2021) re-maps the virtual border war alongside the ongoing settler colonial war with Indigenous peoples. She was also one of the editors of the Anthology, Precarity & Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers 2021) and has published articles in a variety of international journals in Mexico, France, and Brazil. In December of 2022, she participated as a UN Expert Seminar Participant on the Impact of Militarization on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Geneva, Switzerland.

Please RSVP for this colloqiuium at: https://go.umd.edu/Schaeffer

The colloqiuium will be on November 1st from 4:00-5:45 P in Susquehanna 4116.