Professor Sarah Deer, J.D.
Bio:
Sarah Deer (J.D., University of Kansas) is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and a professor at the University of Kansas, where she has a dual appointment in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Department and the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of Federal Indian law and feminism, with a focus on violence against Native women. Her 2015 book, The Beginning and End of Rape, has received several awards, including the best first book award from the Native American Indigenous Studies Association. Professor Deer has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (2014) and a Carnegie Fellowship (2020). She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 2019. She also serves as the Chief Justice for the Prairie Island Indian Community Court of Appeals and has testified in 4 Congressional hearings. Deer is a co-author of four textbooks on tribal law and has been published in a wide variety of law journals, including the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, and the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. She has appeared on MSNBC, NPR, and Democracy Now and has been interviewed for stories in the New York Times and the Washington Post.
Sub-specialities:
Federal Indian law
Tribal law
Violence Against Woman Act
Indian reservations
Native women
