Collegiate Affiliation
Assistant Professor,
American Indian Studies

Samantha Majhor is Dakota and Assiniboine, a direct descendant from Fort Peck. She is an Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. Her area of focus is Native American Literature, especially contemporary literature by Dakota and Ojibwe writers and the Great Lakes region. She teaches classes in Native American literary studies as well as classes that intersect with Indigenous environmental perspectives, museum and archival philosophies, and Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Studies. She is co-PI along with Christ Pexa (Spirit Lake Dakota) for the Mellon-funded Očeti Šakowin Storymap project, creating a digital archive of oral narratives connecting Dakota and Lakota stories to place across the Očeti Šakowin diaspora. 

Educational Background & Specialties
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Educational Background

  • PhD: English, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, 2019
  • MA: English, University of St. Thomas, 2008
  • BA : English, University of Minnesota - Duluth, 2005
  • BA : Sociology, University of Minnesota - Duluth, 2005

Specialties

  • Literature, 20th and 21st Century Native Great Lakes literature, Poetry, Indigenous Materialisms, Traditional Ecological Knowledges in Oral Tradition