72 University Place
Williams Hall Room 501A
Burlington, VT 05405
United States
BIO
Thomas Brasdefer completed his graduate work in France at Université d'Artois and Université de Poitiers in American Civilization and Teaching Foreign Languages. He then received a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Geography from Louisiana State University.
He studies indigenous sovereignty in the United States through the lens of language policies, against the background of U.S. federal law and the larger conceptions of U.S. politics. This could mean ensuring that indigenous children are learning their own history in school, or sometimes recovering a dictionary that was written 100 years ago by an anthropologist in passing; sometimes it is both of these things at the same time.
Area(s) of expertise
Critical Language Policy, Existentialism, Indigeneity, Site Ontology, Non-Representational Theory, Geopolitics, Social Theory, Radicalism
Bio
Thomas Brasdefer completed his graduate work in France at Université d'Artois and Université de Poitiers in American Civilization and Teaching Foreign Languages. He then received a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Geography from Louisiana State University.
He studies indigenous sovereignty in the United States through the lens of language policies, against the background of U.S. federal law and the larger conceptions of U.S. politics. This could mean ensuring that indigenous children are learning their own history in school, or sometimes recovering a dictionary that was written 100 years ago by an anthropologist in passing; sometimes it is both of these things at the same time.
Areas of Expertise
Critical Language Policy, Existentialism, Indigeneity, Site Ontology, Non-Representational Theory, Geopolitics, Social Theory, Radicalism