Jenny L. Davis
Associate Professor · Indigenous Language Revitalization
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States
About
Jenny L. Davis is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Anthropology, American Indian Studies Program, and Gender and Women's Studies. As a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, her work focuses on Indigenous language futurism, Queer Indigenous Studies, and decolonizing research ethics.
Her research has been published in leading journals including:
- Annual Review of Anthropology
- American Anthropologist
- Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
Award-winning author of Talking Indian (2018) and co-editor of Queer Excursions (2014), she has received:
- Beatrice Medicine Award (2019)
- Ruth Benedict Book Prize (2014)
- Dynamic Woman of the Year - Chickasaw Nation (2021)
She leads the NAGPRA & Ethics course, co-chairs the campus NAGPRA Advisory Committee, and directs the Native American and Indigenous Languages (NAIL) Lab, focusing on:
- Language reclamation technologies
- Indigenous community partnerships
- Anti-colonial research frameworks
Research fields
Indigenous Language RevitalizationQueer Indigenous StudiesNAGPRA & RepatriationCollaborative/Community-Based Research MethodsGender & Sexuality StudiesIndigenous FuturismLinguistic AnthropologyPublic HumanitiesEthnobotanyTwo-Spirit StudiesCritical Race TheoryDigital HumanitiesSpeculative FictionPoetryArchival StudiesBioanthropology Ethics
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