Jerome Jeffery Clark (Diné), Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at Arizona State University, studies Diné life-seeking moments as a means for imagining and creating alternatives to settler colonial domination. He held the Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale University. His research areas include Indigenous stories, decolonization, settler colonialism, and Indigenous futurity and imagination. In 2023, he was awarded an American Council of Learned Societies fellowship to complete his first book Bundle: Life, Stories, and Hope Across Diné Worlds. Clark co-edited the volume From the Skin: Defending Indigenous Nation with Theory and Praxis, available through the University of Arizona Press. He is Kinłichíi’nii, born for Tséníjikiní, Mą’ii Deeshgiizhinii are his maternal grandfathers, and Tábąąhá are his paternal grandfathers.
Education
PhD, Literature - Arizona State University
MA, Social and Cultural Pedagogy - Arizona State University
MA, English - Northern Arizona University
BS, American Indian Studies - Arizona State University
