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Join us to discuss “Dematriation: Indigenous Women, Displacement, and Racial Capitalism” with guest Joanne Jahnke-Wegner, University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire.

Dr. Jahnke-Wegner says, “This paper marks the beginning of my attempts to theorize the gendered nature of Indigenous dispossession during European colonization by introducing the concept of dematriation. Taking English colonization in New England as my example, this paper considers where the actions of English colonizers against Indigenous women fit in the development of racial capitalism.”

Joanne Jahnke-Wegner is an assistant professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire where she teaches the US history surveys as well as classes on early America, the health humanities, the family, and women and gender. She is currently working on projects about the commodification of enslaved Indigenous peoples, Pequot women’s fugitivity and resistance, and the gendered nature of Indigenous dispossession. Her work has been supported by funding from the Newberry Library, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Boston Athenaeum, the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.