The C.M. Russell MuseumArt Museum in Great Falls, Montana
Great Falls, MT 59401
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The C.M. Russell Museum plans to premiere a video.
The 2nd conversation in our studio series is with Annita Lucchesi. Annita is the Founding Executive Director of the Sovereign Bodies Institute and a Ph.D. student at the University of Arizona. She is a researcher, a scholar, and a community organizer of Cheyenne and Italian descent, currently living on Wiyot territory in Northern California.
Annita’s community engaged work and scholarly projects are both inspired by her experiences as a survivor of violence, and stem from a c...ommitment to uplift other Indigenous survivors and those impacted by violence.
The Sovereign Bodies Institute is a non-profit research institute dedicated to community-engaged research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people. Sovereign Bodies Institute builds on Indigenous traditions of data gathering and knowledge transfer to create, disseminate, and put into action research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people.
Annita is also a doctoral student at the University of Arizona in the School of Geography, Development, and Environment, and is pursuing a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies. She is an Indigenous Data Sovereignty Doctoral Scholar at the University of Arizona’s Native Nations Institute, and serves as a Board Member for the University of Arizona Consortium on Gender-Based Violence. She earned her BA in Geography, with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice, from the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from Washington State University with her MA in American Studies.
Finally, Annita has nearly ten years of experience as a freelance cartographer, and has created maps for academic publications, community organizations, and public awareness. She has also worked to support Indigenous mapping initiatives, led art-based mapping workshops in various communities, and worked on several projects utilizing maps to combat extractive industries. Her specialties include mapping Indigenous narratives, mapping for social justice, and mapping geographies of violence.
Her research interests include Indigenous and critical cartography, Indigenous feminisms, postcolonial geographies, Indigenous data sovereignty, femicide and gender-based violence, and Indigenous research methodologies. Her dissertation work examines the intersections of data, violence against Indigenous women and girls, and cartography, by studying how data on colonial sexual violence and mapping technologies are utilized in tandem to subjugate women and girls and occupy Indigenous homelands.
Resources and links:
Sovereign Bodies Institute: https://www.sovereign-bodies.org/
