Summary
Biography
Debra Harry is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity at the Βι¶ΉΣ³». Harry's research analyzes the linkages between biotechnology, intellectual property and globalization in relation to indigenous peoples' rights. Harry also teaches online courses for the Βι¶ΉΣ³», UCLA's Tribal Learning Community and Educational Exchange Program and UC-Denver's Department for Political Science. Harry is Numu (Northern Paiute), Kooyooe Dukaddo, from Pyramid Lake, Βι¶ΉΣ³».
Class Materials
- ETS-280-5505 Native American Identities and Cultures
- ETS-280 Native American Identities and Cultures
- ETS-307 Special Topics in Race and Race Relations: Globalization, Biocolonialism, and Indigenous Peoples' Rights
Research Interests:
- Colonization and Globalization
- Community-Engaged Research
- Indigenous Resistance Movements
- Indigenous Feminisms
- International Governance and Policy
- Intersection of cultural heritage and intellectual property
- Decolonizing research methodologies
- Indigenous leadership development
Publications
- "Decolonizing Colonial Constructions of Indigenous Identity: A Conversation Between Debra Harry and Leonie Pihama" in Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations, Edited by Norbert S. Hill, Jr., and Kathleen Ratteree, Fulcrum Press (2017)
- ‘Biocolonialism And Indigenous Knowledge In United Nations Discourse,' Griffith Law Review Vol 20 No. 3., 2011
- "Indigenous Peoples and Gene Disputes" 84 Chicago-Kent Law Review 147, 2009
- "Asserting Tribal Sovereignty over Cultural Property: Towards Protection of Genetic Material and Indigenous Knowledge" published in Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Seattle University School of Law, February, 2007
- Harry, Debra, "Acts of Self Determination and Self Defense: Indigenous Peoples Responses to Biocolonialism" (in Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age, by Sheldon Krimsky & Peter Shorett, Roman and Littlefield, 2005
Education
- Ph.D., Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, 2009