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Sharity Bassett

  • Assistant Professor, Women's & Gender Studies

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Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30am , and by appointment

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Sharity L. Bassett is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Executive Manager of the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education (EQI) at UWM. Bassett earned her PhD in global gender studies at the State of New York at Buffalo and has been involved in collaborative research with Haudenosaunee communities in New York State, Ontario, and Montreal since 2011. Her book, Haudenosaunee Women Lacrosse Players: Making Meaning through Rematriation, came out October 1, 2024, through Michigan State University Press. For EQI, she started and directs the Indigenous Kinship & Responsibility Scholarship, which focuses on undergraduate research opportunities across multiple academic disciplines. Dr. Bassett is working with tribal nations to create interactive databases and curriculum using historical records and oral history. She is also crafting her experiences in various archival spaces into an autoethnographic work that analyzes the barriers to archival knowledges. Bassett teaches courses for UWM’s Women’s and Gender Studies and American Indian Studies programs, including Indigenous feminisms, Indigequeer theory and praxis, critical disability studies, and feminist research methods.

 

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.