Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative

Paja Faudree is a linguistic anthropologist whose research interests include language and politics, Indigenous literary and social movements, the interface between music and language, the ethnohistory of New World colonization, and the global marketing of Indigenous rights discourses, Indigenous knowledge, and plants. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and came to Brown following a Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. She is affiliated with Brown's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Native American and Indigenous Studies, the Program in Science and Technology Studies, and Development Studies. Professor Faudree teaches courses on language and society, social movements in Latin America, language and politics, language and music, and the anthropology of drugs. She is also a published poet and playwright, and holds an MFA from Brown's literary arts program.