Robert Warrior, Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas, will join Harvard Divinity School for the fall 2024 semester as Visiting Professor of Native American Culture and Traditions.
A Native American scholar and member/citizen of the Osage Nation, Warrior will teach two courses during the fall 2024 semester while at HDS.
Warrior earned his PhD in systemic theology from Union Theological Seminary. In 2018, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is past president of the American Studies Association and was the founding president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (2009-10).
He is the author of Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions(University of Minnesota Press, 1995) and The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction (University of Minnesota Press, 2006), and coauthor of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (New Press, 1996), American Indian Literary Nationalism (University of New Mexico Press, 2008), and Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009).