Circe Sturm

Circe Sturm is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin.[1] She is also an actress, appearing mainly in films and commercials.[2][3]

Circe Sturm
Born
Houston, Texas
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Anthropologist, actress
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Davis
Academic work
Disciplineanthropology
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas, Austin
Main interestsracial studies

Background

Circe Dawn Sturm was born in Houston, Texas. She identifies her father as being of Mississippi Choctaw descent and her mother as being Italian American.[4]

Career

Sturm has written two books on Cherokee identity. Blood Politics (2002) presents results of her ethnographic fieldwork in the Cherokee Nation from 1995 to 1998.[5] Becoming Indian (2011) discusses the concept of race shifting:[6] how a rapidly growing number of people in the United States are self-identifying as Native American – usually, as Cherokee – without any documentation to support their claims.[7] Race shifting is not just confined to the United States, but has also been observed in Canada.[8][9] Sturm has been interviewed on issues relating to Cherokee identity, such as the Cherokee Freedmen controversy[10][11] and Elizabeth Warren's claims to Cherokee ancestry.[12]

Before joining UT Austin, Sturm taught at the University of Oklahoma.[13]

Selected publications
  • Blood Politics: Race, Culture and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma[5]
  • Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century[7]
  • "Reflections on the anthropology of sovereignty and settler colonialism: lessons from Native North America."[14]

See also

References
  1. "Profile for Circe Sturm at UT Austin". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  2. "Circe Sturm". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  3. "Circe Sturm". Circe Sturm. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  4. "Circe Sturm on Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon of racial shifting". Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders. Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, 1968-, Warrior, Robert Allen. Minneapolis. ISBN 978-1-4529-5714-2. OCLC 1033547171.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  5. Sturm, Circe, 1967- (2002). Blood politics : race, culture, and identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93608-9. OCLC 52996181.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. Leroux, Darryl. "Bibliography". Raceshifting. Archived from the original on 2019-07-01. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  7. Sturm, Circe, 1967- (2011). Becoming Indian : the struggle over Cherokee identity in the twenty-first century (1st ed.). Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press. ISBN 978-1-934691-44-1. OCLC 671541010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. Leroux, Darryl; Gaudry, Adam (October 25, 2017). "Becoming Indigenous: The rise of Eastern Métis in Canada". The Conversation. Archived from the original on 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  9. "A 'little bit Indigenous'?". Metis Nation News. 2019-09-24. Archived from the original on 2020-03-27. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  10. "The Fight to Be Called Cherokee | The Takeaway". WNYC. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  11. Mays, Kyle (July 20, 2015). "Still waiting: Cherokee Freedman say they're not going anywhere". Indian Country Today. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  12. "Warren still dogged by past claims of Indigenous ancestry". PBS NewsHour. 2020-02-27. Archived from the original on 2020-02-28. Retrieved 2020-03-27.
  13. "Circe Sturm". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale. 2008.
  14. Sturm, Circe (2017-08-19). "Reflections on the Anthropology of Sovereignty and Settler Colonialism: Lessons from Native North America". Cultural Anthropology. 32 (3): 340–348. doi:10.14506/ca32.3.03. ISSN 1548-1360.
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