Kim TallBear

Kim TallBear is a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor at the University of Alberta, specializing in racial politics in science. TallBear was educated at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Santa Cruz, where she was advised by Donna Haraway.

A member of the Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, in late 2016 she became the first ever Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment. An anthropologist specialising in the intersection of science and technology with culture, TallBear is a frequent media commentator on issues of Tribal membership, genetics and identity. Her first book, "Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science was released in 2013 by the University of Minnesota Press. Described as a "provocative and incisive work of interdisciplinary scholarship", the book discusses the marketing of DNA testing as something capable of determining ancestry and race, and the ways in which it shades into racial science.