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Shanya Cordis (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. A first-generation Black and Indigenous (Lokono and Warrau) Guyanese American scholar, her work bridges sociocultural anthropology with critical race and gender studies. Her research focuses on indigeneity, antiblackness, transnational feminisms, and decolonial geographies across the Americas and Caribbean.
Dr. Cordis holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin, with concentrations in African & African Diaspora Studies and Native American & Indigenous Studies. She has taught at Columbia University, Spelman College, and the University of Texas at Austin, emphasizing engaged feminist pedagogy that links theory to embodied lived experiences.
Her research examines colonial legacies shaping racialized unfreedoms and liberatory struggles. Key projects include her forthcoming book Unsettling Geographies, co-editing Fugitive Anthropology, and co-authoring Say, Listen: Writing as Care with the Black|Indigenous 100s Collective. Her work critiques how gendered violence and extractive economies underpin indigenous dispossession and anti-black logics.
Dr. Cordis prioritizes collaborative black and indigenous feminist praxis, blending academia with creative mediums like poetry to imagine transformative futures. Her courses address topics such as Black feminist geographies, Caribbean hauntings, and indigeneity in colonial contexts.
