Join in conversation with BIFF Fellows in Residence for November.
Meredith Palmer (Cornell) and Esme Murdock (San Diego State) will be joining the Black & Indigenous Feminist Futures Institute Working Group, At Bond House, Conference Rooms 116/118, Karsh Institute of Democracy, and on zoom.
Dr. Murdock is an assistant professor of philosophy at San Diego State University.
Her research explores the intersections of social/political relations and environmental health, integrity, and agency. Specifically, her work troubles the purported stability of dominant, largely euro-descendent, and settler-colonial philosophies through centering conceptions of land and relating to land found within African American, Afro-Diasporic, and Indigenous eco-philosophies.
Murdock is looking forward to the opportunity to work on her first project and primary focus, a forthcoming book tentatively titled, Blood, Bone, & Land: Black Environmental Identities, Heritages, and Histories in Coastal South Carolina.
Dr. Palmer is a Tuscarora, Haudenosaunee (Grand River, Six Nations) and a Cornell Presidential Postdoc in the Science and Technology Studies department and American Indian and Indigenous Studies program at Cornell University.
As a critical Indigenous geographer, Palmer researches technologies of occupation, and amplify and build ways in which they are refused, in lands currently territorialized as North America.
Palmer received a PhD in Geography at UC Berkeley in 2020, and a MPH from UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health in 2015. Palmer’s research has been funded by the Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship at Yale University, Ford Foundation Fellowships, UC Chancellor’s Fellowship, and the Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley.