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Biography

Debra Harry is an associate professor in the Department of Gender, Race, and Identity at the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno. Harry's research analyzes the linkages between biotechnology, intellectual property and globalization in relation to indigenous peoples' rights. Harry also teaches online courses for the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno, UCLA's Tribal Learning Community and Educational Exchange Program and UC-Denver's Department for Political Science. Harry is Numu (Northern Paiute), Kooyooe Dukaddo, from Pyramid Lake, ÁùºÏ±¦µä.

Class Materials

• ETS-280-5505 Native American Identities and Cultures
• ETS-280 Native American Identities and Cultures
• ETS-307 Special Topics in Race and Race Relations: Globalization, Biocolonialism, and Indigenous Peoples' Rights

Research Interests:

• Colonization and Globalization
• Community-Engaged Research
• Indigenous Resistance Movements
• Indigenous Feminisms
• International Governance and Policy
• Intersection of cultural heritage and intellectual property
• Decolonizing research methodologies
• Indigenous leadership development

Publications

• "Decolonizing Colonial Constructions of Indigenous Identity: A Conversation Between Debra Harry and Leonie Pihama" in Great Vanishing Act: Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations, Edited by Norbert S. Hill, Jr., and Kathleen Ratteree, Fulcrum Press (2017)
• ‘Biocolonialism And Indigenous Knowledge In United Nations Discourse,' Griffith Law Review Vol 20 No. 3., 2011
• "Indigenous Peoples and Gene Disputes" 84 Chicago-Kent Law Review 147, 2009
• "Asserting Tribal Sovereignty over Cultural Property: Towards Protection of Genetic Material and Indigenous Knowledge" published in Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Seattle University School of Law, February, 2007
• Harry, Debra, "Acts of Self Determination and Self Defense: Indigenous Peoples Responses to Biocolonialism" (in Rights and Liberties in the Biotech Age, by Sheldon Krimsky & Peter Shorett, Roman and Littlefield, 2005