Rate My Professor Mishuana Goeman

Mishuana Goeman, PhD, daughter of enrolled Tonawanda Band of Seneca, Hawk Clan, serves as Professor of Indigenous Studies and Chair of the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo. She earned her PhD in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University in 2003, MA in the same field from Stanford in 2000, and BA in English and Native American Studies from Dartmouth College in 1994. Additional academic experiences include study abroad in the English Department at University College London during fall and winter 1992-1993 and participation in the T.R.I.B.E.S. Program at Colorado State University in summer 1990. Previously on leave from UCLA’s Gender Studies and American Indian Studies, where she held the position of Inaugural Special Advisor from 2018 to 2022, Goeman also served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University at Buffalo’s Center for Diversity Innovation from 2020 to 2021 and is President-elect of the American Studies Association since 2023.

Goeman’s research specializations encompass Indigenous Feminisms, Indigenous Geographies and Literature, Contemporary Poetry, Visual Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Justice, Digital Humanities, and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Her major publications include the books Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and Settler Aesthetics: The Spectacle of Originary Moments in the New World (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). She contributed to the edited volume Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (NYU Press, 2021) as part of a feminist editorial collective, which received the CHOICE Award in 2021. Key peer-reviewed articles and chapters feature “The Land Introduction: Beyond the Grammar of Settler Landscapes and Apologies” in Western Humanities Review (Fall 2020), “Indigenous Transnational Feminisms” in Frontiers (Fall 2015), “Tools of a Cartographic Poet: Joy Harjo’s Poetry and the (Re)mapping of Settler Colonial Geographies” in Settler Colonial Studies (2012), and more recent works such as “Grounded Engagements: 2024 ASA Presidential Address” in American Quarterly (2025) and “Caring for Landscapes of Justice in Perilous Settler Environments” in Pluralist (2024). She has led digital humanities projects including Mapping Indigenous LA (co-PI, 2015), Carrying Our Ancestors Home (co-PI, 2019), and Haudenosaunee Archival Research and Knowledge (HARK, co-PI, 2023).