Cassidy Schoenfelder, MA
Oglála Lakȟóta
Pronouns: she/her
Position(s):
Ph.D. Candidate and Graduate Associate, School of Geography, Development, & Environment at the University of Arizona, and Graduate Research Associate, Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance
Cassidy is a doctoral candidate in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment with a master’s degree in the history of art and architecture from the University of Oregon. Her dissertation research focuses on cooperative agreements, like co-management and co-stewardship, between tribal governments and federal agencies like the National Park Service. She approaches this research through geography and visual cultural studies to investigate how Indigenous-centered visual materials and Indigenous self-representations can play a significant role in cooperative agreements. In this way, she identifies a relationship between what is seen/viewed/storied and land management, including legal determinations for how the land is cared for and who it’s cared for by– how something looks has real political and geographical implications. Cassidy grew up in Mní Kȟáta Otȟúŋwahe (Hot Springs, SD), outside of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and is a citizen of the Oglála band of the Lakȟóta Sioux tribe and of European descent (German, French/French-Canadian, and Irish).
Project(s):
Dissertation: “The Role of Indigenous Visual Sovereignty in Tribal/Federal Co-managed National Parks”
Co-editor, you are here: the journal of creative geography (graduate-student led journal)
Graduate Research Associate for the CELSI Curriculum, Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance
Collaborator, University of Arizona & iglobes project: “Landscape wonder: a springboard towards an environmental transition”
Publication(s):
Schoenfelder, C. (2024). Review of Making and Breaking Settler Space: Five Centuries of Colonization in North America. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 47(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.17953/A3.20335
Schoenfelder, C. (2023). “Foreword: The desire to counter.” You are here: the journal of creative geography: counter/cartographies. Issue 24, pp. i-v. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/670196
Email: cschoenfelder@arizona.edu