Rowan Greywolf Moore

Rowan "Ro" Greywolf Moore (they/them, Sicangu Lakota) is a PhD Candidate in the Sociology program at ASU. Their dissertation, titled Red (Re)orientations and the Reels/Reals Line: Unmasking Redface, Resistance, and Indigenous Media Sovereignty is an investigative story-telling project that unravels what they call the reels/reals line, historical and ongoing colonial domination of the Indigenous Other in film media through Red film tropes and intentional psuedo-historical narratives. Their dissertation also highlights the ways in which Indigenous-centered film media resists the colonial film industry through what they call Red (re)orientations, a theoretical framework that queers white/settler-normative stories and celebrates what they call Savage Indigeneity, a deliberate (re)orientation of the margins-of-margins that embodies authentic Indigenous expression.

Outside of academia, Rowan is actively involved in their community as a Wiŋkte (Two Spirit) Ceremony Helper and Storyteller. They are also learning the protocols to become a water pourer for Sweat Lodge and currently building a sovereignty ranch in honor of their late brother. They spend their free time playing cozy video games, riding motorcycles, soaking in the desert by their house, being a plant and human parent, and doing Thióšpaye (making community). 

As a mixed-race Indigenous person who also happens to be Jewish, Rowan stands in solidarity with their Indigenous relatives in Palestine as they actively resist settler colonialism and genocide. From Khéya Wita (Turtle Island) to Palestine, land back, everywhere!