Rowan Greywolf Moore

Rowan "Ro" Greywolf Moore (he/they, Sicangu Lakota) is a third year PhD student in the Sociology program at ASU. His research focuses on film tropes of Indigenous peoples as intentionally false narratives to maintain colonization. They have a special focus on film tropes of Indigenous Queer, trans*, and Two Spirit peoples as dual false narratives to maintain cis- and hetero-patriarchy within the colonial system. His dissertation project utilizes multiple qualitative methods to explore what he calls colonial images, reviewing film and television with Indigenous plots and characters. In addition to his teaching assistantship appointment, Rowan enjoys engaging in Indigenizing pedagogies in the classroom as an Adjunct Instructor at Pima Community College. Outside of academia, they spend their free time playing cozy video games, enjoying time in nature, being a plant and human parent, and doing tiospaye (making community). 

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