Beth Redbird

Beth Redbird is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University and a faculty fellow with the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) and the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR). Her research focuses on the impact of boundaries—geographical, political, and social—on interaction, conflict, and inequality. Key areas include modern settler-colonialism's effects on Native nations and human movement patterns. She teaches courses such as 'Social Inequality: Race, Class, & Power' and 'Indigeneity and Settler Colonialism.'

Her research projects include the Tribal Constitutions Project, analyzing tribal governance, and the Human Movement Inequality initiative, using GPS data to study interaction disparities. Redbird's work has garnered significant media attention, including coverage in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal for her pandemic mobility studies. She holds a PhD from Stanford University (2016).

• Key Projects: Tribal Sovereignty, Pandemic Mobility Models, Borderlands Dynamics
• Courses Taught: SOCIOL 201, 277, 345, 476
• Affiliations: IPR, CNAIR