Stony Brook Faculty Directory
Joseph M. PierceAssociate ProfessorHispanic Languages and LiteratureCollege of Arts and Sciences
Biography
Joseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation citizen) is Associate Professor and Inaugural Director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Stony Brook University. He is the author of Argentine Intimacies: Queer Kinship in an Age of Splendor, 1890-1910 (SUNY Press, 2019) and Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair (Duke UP, 2025). Along with S.J. Norman (Wiradjuri) he is co-curator of the performance series Knowledge of Wounds.
Education
- PhD and MA, The University of Texas at Austin
- BA, Trinity University
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