• PhD, Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 2022
• MA, Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego, 2012
• BS, English, State University of New York at Brockport, 2002

Laura Terrance is Akwesasne Mohawk, Wolf Clan. She was a University of California president’s postdoctoral fellow before joining the faculty at UB. She has presented at Native American and Indigenous Studies conferences and American Studies Association conferences, among others, as well as several symposia. 

Terrance’s research takes up questions of violence, civility, and embodiment within settler colonial contexts. Using various forms of media and cultural production, it employs Indigenous feminist and Black feminist frameworks to understand the workings of anti-colonial violence within a state of ongoing colonial violence against racialized and colonized peoples.

The intersection of Indigeneity and Blackness, violence as an anti-colonial tool, Indigenous and Black cultural production, Native film, Indigenous literature, Black film, Black literature

Resisting Colonial Education: Zitkala-Sa and Native Feminist Archival Refusal. Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Vol. 24, no. 5.