Larissa Nez

Diné citizen, writer, curator, and Ethnic Studies scholar whose research explores the intersections between Art History, Cultural Studies, Black Studies, and Indigenous Studies.

Research Interests

  • Articulate modes of resistance and survivance expressed through Black and Indigenous modern and contemporary visual and performing arts and archival research that explores strategies of refusal and possibility.

  • Examine the embodiment of memory and the interior life through the interpretation of sacred geographies as sites of geopolitical and social resistance but also sites where kinship and belonging emerge and are performed.

  • Explore the ways Afro-Indigenous, Black, and Indigenous scholars, artists, and communities challenge and redress western intellectual traditions, particularly in ways that center traditional ecological knowledge, queer and feminist theory, and decoloniality.