Larissa Nez

Diné citizen, scholar, arts worker, and writer whose research explores the intersections between Art History, Black Studies, and Indigenous Studies with a focus on critical theory, race, and empire.

Research Interests

  • Explore languages of resistance and survivance expressed in Black and Indigenous modern and contemporary art and archival research that explores strategies of refusal and possibility.

  • Examine the embodiment of memory and interior life by interpreting sacred geographies as sites of geopolitical and social resistance where kinship and belonging emerge and are performed.

  • Explore the ways Afro-Indigenous, Black, and Indigenous scholars, artists, and communities challenge and redress Western intellectual traditions, particularly in ways that center traditional ecological knowledge, queer and feminist theory, and decoloniality.