• PhD, UC Berkeley, 2020
• MPH, UC Berkeley, 2015

Meredith Alberta Palmer is Tuscarora, Haudenosaunee (Six Nations of Ohswé:ken, Grand River), and an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University at Buffalo. Her research on science and technology’s role in the spatial dynamics of colonialism and racism explores questions of power, refusal, redress and Indigenous flourishing. Her book manuscript, Dismembered Evidence: colonial geographies of proof and power, grounds her research and questions in the ongoing US occupation of Haudenosaunee and other Indigenous territories. From 2020 to 2023 she was a presidential postdoc at Cornell University. She holds a PhD in geography, and a masters in public health, both from UC Berkeley.

Indigenous Geography, Science and Technology Studies, Critical Indigenous Studies, Critical Geographies of Health and Medicine, Archives, Inequality, Racial Empire.

• GEO 102: Introduction to Human Geography
• GEO 503: Special Topics: Race, Empire, Technology