Professional Title:
Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Education:
Ph.D., Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University
M.A., Sociology, Harvard University
B.A., Sociology, Dartmouth College
Bio:
Dr. Blythe George is a Yurok scholar and interdisciplinary sociologist whose research examines the intersections of settler colonialism, structural inequality, institutional violence, and Indigenous family and community life. Her scholarship brings together Indigenous studies, sociology, and critical race and ethnic studies, with particular attention to Indigenous experiences of incarceration, fatherhood, and missing and murdered Indigenous people (MMIP). Her first book manuscript, Salmon in the Stream, examines the experiences of Yurok and Hoopa fathers navigating incarceration, family relationships, and community belonging in Northern California. She also served as Principal Investigator of a statewide research partnership with the California Department of Justice examining MMIP in California. Across her research, Dr. George develops Indigenous-centered qualitative methodologies that foreground lived experience, relational accountability, and Indigenous knowledge production.
