Welcome Laura Harjo

We’d like to welcome new NAS faculty member, Associate Professor Dr. Laura Harjo. 

Dr. Harjo is a Mvskoke scholar teaching Indigenous Planning, Community Development, and Indigenous Feminisms.  She was raised in Sapulpa by Mvskoke parents that were active in Mvskoke community and Muscogee (Creek) Nation politics; Harjo is a lifelong student of emancipatory community processes. Dr. Harjo earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Southern California, and her research and teaching centers on Indigenous spatialities, community caretaking, Indigenous feminist community planning praxis, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives and anti-violence, artivism and community engaged knowledge production. She is the author of Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (University of Arizona Press, 2019), which employs Mvskoke epistemologies, and Indigenous feminisms to grapple with a community praxis of futurity.

We’re so happy to have you as part of the OU NAS fam, Laura!