Jodi Byrd Last updated October 20, 2025 Personal Byrd is the child of physician John Byron Byrd (1944–2008) [ 1] and a great-grandniece of William L. Byrd,who served as governor of the Chickasaw Nation from 1888 to 1890 and 1890 to 1892. [ 2] [ 3] They are a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. [ 4] [ 5]
Byrd holds a master's degree and Ph.D. (2002) in English literature from the University of Iowa . Their dissertation was Colonialism's Cacophony:Natives and Arrivants at the Limits of Postcolonial Theory . [ 6] Before teaching at Cornell,they taught at the University of Illinois ,and before that they were an assistant professor of indigenous politics in the department of political science of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa . [ 7]
They were formerly associated with the American Indian Studies Program at Illinois. In the wake of the Illinois administration's failure to hire Steven Salaita into the program,whom they had championed as acting director of the program,they considered offers to move to three other universities. However,the University of Illinois persuaded them to stay and provided them an alternative position in the English and Gender and Women's Studies departments. [ 8] [ 9]
They are the co-editor of the Critical Insurgencies series for Northwestern University Press . [ 10] They were president of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures for 2011–2012. [ 11] In 2012,they were adopted as a Clan Sister (one of the central organizing members) of the Native American Literature Symposium ,which they have stated has been an inspiring community for them since their first days as a graduate student. [ 12] Byrd has also served as an editorial board member for the journal Critical Ethnic Studies . [ 13]
Awards and recognition Byrd's 2011 book The Transit of Empire:Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism won the 2011 Best First Book of the Year award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, [ 14] and the 2012 Wordcraft Circle Award for Academic Work of the Year. [ 15] Earlier,Byrd won the 2008 Beatrice Medicine Award for Scholarship in American Indian Studies of the Native American Literature Symposium for their paper "Living my native life deadly:Red Lake,Ward Churchill ,and the discourses of competing genocides" ( American Indian Quarterly ,2007). [ 16]
Selected works Journal articles "Living My Native Life Deadly": Red Lake, Ward Churchill, and the Discourses of Competing Genocides [ 18] References ↑ "John B. Byrd MD" . Levander Funeral Homes. Retrieved 3 January 2019 . ↑ Morgan, Phillip C. (2013). Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors, Their Lives and Intellectual Legacy ISBN 978-1-935684-10-7 . Retrieved 4 February 2019 . ↑ "William Byrd Elected as governor" . Chickasaw.TV . Retrieved 4 February 2019 . ↑ "Faculty profile Dept. of English" . Jodi A. Byrd . ↑ Bullard, Laura (2018-12-21). "Who Gets to Decide Who I Am? On Native Identity, Tribal Enrollment, and Federal Recognition" . Jezebel . Retrieved 2019-01-04 . According to Jodi Byrd, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation whose research focuses on Critical Indigenous studies and governance, base rolls 'transformed community identity into an individualistic self—traced through a paper trail.' ↑ "Recent Dissertations". American Indian Quarterly . 26 (4): 659– 662. 2002. doi :10.1353/aiq.2004.0004 . ↑ Farnell, Brenda (March 2007). "Native Women's Resurgence at UIUC" . The Public i . ↑ Wirth, Julie (29 August 2016). "Post-Salaita: UI program's future unclear" . The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana) . ↑ Gardner, Lee (1 September 2016). "How the Salaita Incident Imperiled the Program That Tried to Hire Him" . The Chronicle of Higher Education . ↑ "Critical Insurgencies" . Northwestern University Press . Retrieved 10 October 2018 . ↑ "Officers" . Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures . Retrieved 3 January 2019 . ↑ Howe, LeAnne (April 2017). "Four Things You Likely Didn't Know About NALS". Wasafiri . 32 (2): 54– 56. doi :10.1080/02690055.2017.1293887 . S2CID 164433238 . ↑ "Critical Ethnic Studies (Journal)" . University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . Retrieved 2019-10-14 . ↑ "Previous publication prize winners" . Native American and Indigenous Studies Association . ↑ "Honors and Awards 2012" . Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. Archived from the original on 5 July 2013. Retrieved 4 January 2019 . ↑ "Awards" . Native American Literature Symposium . 27 September 2016. Archived from the original on December 29, 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019 . ↑ Reviews of The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism : Najita, Susan (January 2011). Amerasia Journal . 37 (3). UCLA American Indian Studies Center: 165– 168. doi :10.17953/amer.37.3.3065542km2w11q84 . S2CID 146649394 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link ) Fawaz, Ramzi (Winter 2012). "Settling Scores: Claiming Ground for Native and Indigenous Critique in the Americas". Anthropological Quarterly . 85 (1): 257– 272. doi :10.1353/anq.2012.0000 . JSTOR 41427095 . S2CID 144844887 . Rifkin, Mark (Winter 2012). Studies in American Indian Literatures . 24 (4): 138– 142. doi :10.5250/studamerindilite.24.4.0099 . JSTOR 10.5250/studamerindilite.24.4.0099 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Blyth, Molly (2013), "Review" , Postcolonial Text , 8 (1) King, Lisa (Winter–Spring 2013). American Indian Quarterly . 37 (1– 2): 275– 278. doi :10.5250/amerindiquar.37.1-2.0258 . JSTOR 10.5250/amerindiquar.37.1-2.0258 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Smith, Lindsey Claire (February 2013). The American Historical Review . 118 (1): 149. doi :10.1093/ahr/118.1.149 . JSTOR 23425468 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Vigil, Kiara M. (Spring 2013). Western Historical Quarterly . 44 (1): 78. doi :10.2307/westhistquar.44.1.0078 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Couture-Grondin, Élise (2014). "Rivalité et solidarité dans la résistance". Canadian Journal of Women and the Law . 26 (1): 160– 165. Project MUSE 543912 . Coulombe, Joseph (2014). Western American Literature . 49 (1): 113– 120. doi :10.1353/wal.2014.0010 . S2CID 161296270 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Kelderman, F. (January 2014). American Literature . 86 (3): 611– 614. doi :10.1215/00029831-2717425 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Barker, Adam J. (May 2014). Settler Colonial Studies . 5 (2): 186– 189. doi :10.1080/2201473x.2014.920191 . S2CID 161687006 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Suzack, Cheryl (Summer 2015). Signs . 40 (4): 987– 996. doi :10.1086/680331 . JSTOR 10.1086/680331 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Krian, Lena (January 2016). Kritikon Litterarum . 43 (3– 4). doi :10.1515/kl-2016-0054 . S2CID 164354984 . {{cite journal }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link ) ↑ Byrd, Jodi A. (2007-05-10). "The American Indian Quarterly . 31 (2): 310– 332. doi :10.1353/aiq.2007.0018 . ISSN 1534-1828 . S2CID 161516062 . External links
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