Overview

Jessica Fremland (she/her | Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota) is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies department at Brown University. She received her PhD in Gender Studies from UCLA, an MSc in Contemporary Social Thought from the London School of Economics, and her BA in Dakota Language, Sociology, and Global Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her current research analyzes the gendered forms of settler colonial carcerality enveloping Native women in boarding schools, activist spaces, and everyday geographies. Her research highlights the use of Indigenous aesthetic practices such as dance, sound, crafting, and letter-writing that Native women engage to refuse settler colonialism in all its disciplinary forms. Jessica draws especially on the fields of Black and Indigenous feminisms to document and map these moments of refusal through critical archival and ethnographic research.

Brown Affiliations

• American Studies

Research Areas