Jeff Corntassel

Jeff Corntassel (Cherokee Nation) received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Arizona in 1998 and is currently Associate Professor and Graduate Advisor in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria. Professor Corntassel's research and teaching interests include sustainable self-determination and Indigenous political mobilization/Indigenous nationhood movements. Jeff's research has been published in Alternatives, American Indian Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Human Rights, Decolonization, Human Rights Quarterly, Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, and Social Science Journal. Jeff's first book, entitled Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood (2008, University of Oklahoma Press), examines how Indigenous nations in the U.S. have mobilized politically as they encounter new threats to their governance from state policymakers. His next book is a co-edited volume (with Professor Tom Holm) entitled The Power of Peoplehood: Regenerating Indigenous Nations, which brings together native scholars from Canada and U.S to discuss contemporary strategies for revitalizing Indigenous communities. [Source: American Indian Studies]