Robert Warrior (Chair), is a writer and scholar whose books include Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee and The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction. He teaches the history of Indigenous writing and media at the University of Kansas and has previously taught at Harvard University, Cornell University, Haskell Indian Nations University, the University of Oklahoma, and others. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.

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