Sephora McIntyre

General Interests

My research and teaching examines/explores critical issues facing Indigenous peoples, multi-species justice, inhuman geologies, and potential futures available through liberatory ethics, now. Trained as an environmental anthropologist, I apply my research through ethnography, public scholarship, and multi-media art installations that center pluralistic temporalities, social endurance, and more-than-human political constituents as world-building allies. 

This year I have been awarded the Alton '38 and Adelaide Hamm Activity grant for a project entitled: Moving from Pollution to Protection: Understanding Environmental Challenges through Water and Indigenous Treaty Rights. Through visual anthropology and community forums this project combines social science research, historicity, and Indigenous-led movements that protect water in order to advance collective agencies which design greater equity outcomes for more-than-human worlds. 

As a visiting professor at Knox College I am excited to offer courses and support community dialogue and action which center the ecologies of radical interdependence we all exist within. 

Years at Knox: 2024 to present

Education
MATSPED, 2013, Western New Mexico University
B.A., 2010, Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University