Jen Rose Smith | Department of Geography | University of Washington

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

PDL C-514

Office Hours

By appointment

Fields of Interest

Alaska Native Studies American Studies Arctic Studies Critical Human Geography Environmental Humanities Indigenous Geographies Native American and Indigenous Studies Race and Ethnicity Science and Technology

Biography

Jen Rose Smith is a dAXunhyuu (Eyak, Alaska Native) geographer interested in the intersections of coloniality, race, and indigeneity as read through aesthetic and literary contributions, archival evidences, and experiential embodied knowledges. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in Comparative Ethnic Studies, her Master's Degree from the same department, and holds a BA in English Literature and the Environment from the University of Alaska, Southeast. She has published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and The Geographical Journal. Her first book Ice Geographies: The Colonial Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Arctic was released by Duke University Press in May 2025. If the book is unavailable from DUP, please try here.