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Circe Sturm
Ph.D.
Born
Houston, Texas, U.S.
CitizenshipAmerican
Occupation(s)Anthropologist, actress
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Davis (Ph.D.)
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas, Austin
Main interestsAnthropology, racial studies, Native American studies

Circe Sturm is a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin.[1] She is also an actress, appearing mainly in films and commercials.[2][3]

Background

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Circe Dawn Sturm was born in Houston, Texas. She describes her father as being of Mississippi Choctaw descent and her mother as being Italian American.[4] In Blood Politics (2002), Sturm wrote, "I had always known that my paternal grandmother was Mississippi Choctaw on her mother's side and very distantly Cherokee on her father's side."[5]

Career

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Sturm has written extensively about "Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon of racial shifters", as the School for Advanced Research states.[6][7] Blood Politics presents results of her ethnographic fieldwork in the Cherokee Nation from 1995 to 1998.[8] Becoming Indian (2011) discusses the concept of race shifting in more detail.[6][9] Sturm has been interviewed on issues relating to Cherokee identity, such as the Cherokee Freedmen controversy and Elizabeth Warren's claims to Cherokee ancestry.[10][11][12]

Before joining UT Austin, Sturm taught at the University of Oklahoma.[13] Sturm and Craig Cambell launched a project called Mapping Indigenous Texas, to created an interactive tool to teach about Native American tribes in Texas.[14]

Awards and honors

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In 2003, the American Council of Learned Societies named Strum as a ACLS Fellow for her project "Claiming redness: the racial and cultural politics of becoming Cherokee."[15] In 2011, the Southern Anthropological Society gave Circe Strum a James Mooney Award for her book Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century.[16]

In 2024, the University of Texas at Austin awarded Sturm and Craig Campbell a 2023–2024 Research & Creative Grant for their project Mapping Indigenous Texas.[17]

Selected publications

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Books

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  • Blood Politics: Race, Culture and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma[8]
  • Becoming Indian: The Struggle over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-First Century[7]
  • Say, Listen: Writing as Care by the Black Indigenous 100s Collective (2024), contributor[18]

Journals

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  • Sturm, Circe, ed. (2019). "Rethinking Blackness and indigeneity in the light of settler colonial theory". American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 43 (2). Los Angeles, CA: University of California–Los Angeles. doi:10.17953/aicrj.43.2.sturm.

Articles and essays

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Profile for Circe Sturm at UT Austin". liberalarts.utexas.edu. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  2. ^ "Circe Sturm". IMDb. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  3. ^ "Circe Sturm". Circe Sturm. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  4. ^ Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani, ed. (2018). "Circe Sturm on Cherokee identity politics and the phenomenon of racial shifting". Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders. foreword by Robert Warrior. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-1-4529-5714-2. OCLC 1033547171.
  5. ^ Sturm, Circe Dawn (1997). Blood Politics: Racial Hybridity and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. University of California: Davis. p. 8. ISBN 9780520230972. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
  6. ^ a b "Becoming Indian". School for Advanced Research. Santa Fe. Archived from the original on March 6, 2024. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  7. ^ a b Sturm, Circe (2011). Becoming Indian: The Struggle Over Cherokee Identity in the Twenty-first Century (1st ed.). Santa Fe, New Mexico: School for Advanced Research Press. ISBN 978-1-934691-44-1. OCLC 671541010.
  8. ^ a b Sturm, Circe (2002). Blood Politics: Race, Culture and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-93608-9. OCLC 52996181.
  9. ^ Leroux, Darryl. "Bibliography". Raceshifting. Archived from the original on July 1, 2019. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  10. ^ "The Fight to Be Called Cherokee | The Takeaway". WNYC. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  11. ^ Mays, Kyle (July 20, 2015). "Still waiting: Cherokee Freedman say they're not going anywhere". Indian Country Today. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  12. ^ "Warren still dogged by past claims of Indigenous ancestry". PBS NewsHour. February 27, 2020. Archived from the original on February 28, 2020. Retrieved March 27, 2020.
  13. ^ "Circe Sturm". Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors. Gale. 2008.
  14. ^ Koksoy, Atahan (April 24, 2024). "Mapping Indigenous Texas project awarded 2023-2024 Research and Creative Grant". The Daily Texas. Retrieved February 18, 2025.
  15. ^ "Circe Sturm". America Council of Learned Societies. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  16. ^ "Mooney Archive: Recipients of the James Mooney Award". Southern Anthropological Society. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  17. ^ "Dr. Craig Campbell & Dr. Circe Sturm Awarded 2023-2024 Research & Creative Grant". Native American and Indigenous Studies | College of Liberal Arts. University of Texas at Austin. January 11, 2024. Retrieved July 25, 2025.
  18. ^ Black Indigenous 100s Collective. Say, listen: writing as care. OCLC 1412258751.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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