Rate My Professor Jennifer Hamilton

Jennifer Hamilton serves as Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Bates College, having joined the institution in 2022. As a sociocultural anthropologist, her interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on feminist science and technology studies, medical and legal anthropology, ethnography, and the politics of indigeneity. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from Rice University and previously held the position of Associate Professor of Legal Studies and Anthropology at Hampshire College. Hamilton authored the book Indigeneity in the Courtroom (Routledge, 2009), which explores law, culture, and the production of difference in indigenous rights cases. She is currently revising her second book manuscript, Settler Science and the Politics of Indigeneity. Her publications also include 'Reindeer and Woolly Mammoths: The Imperial Transit of Frozen Meat from the North American Arctic' (2021), 'Critical Perspectives on Whiteness and Technoscience: An Introduction' (2018), 'What Indians and Indians Can Teach Us about Colonization: Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Epistemological Imperialism and the Politics of Difference' (Feminist Studies, 2017), and contributions to PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review such as 'Resettling Musqueam Park' (2008).