Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2012
  • M.A., Wayne State University 2001
  • B.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1996
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • SEP 15, 2022

    Department of Cultural Anthropology

    Bold Thinking: New Faculty Member Courtney Lewis on Building Native American Economic Sovereignty
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Books

    • Lewis, Courtney. Sovereign Entrepreneurs. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648590.001.0001.
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  • Academic Articles

    • Lewis, C. “Agency In Economic Justice: Typology of Native Nation Sovereignty and Settler-Colonial Acts of Economic Aggression.” Interventions, January 1, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2022.2080570.
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    • Lewis, C. “Brief Research Commentary: The US Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movement’s Impact on Understandings of COVID-19 in Indian Country.” Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 43, no. 2 (December 1, 2021): 107–13. https://doi.org/10.1111/cuag.12280.
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    • Lewis, James. “Confronting Cannabis: Legalization on Native Nation Lands and the Impacts of Differential Federal Enforcement.” American Indian Quarterly 43, no. 4 (2019): 408–408. https://doi.org/10.5250/amerindiquar.43.4.0408.
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    • Lewis, C. “Banning Change: The South Carolina Heritage Act.” Museum Anthropology 41, no. 2 (September 1, 2018): 128–30. https://doi.org/10.1111/muan.12183.
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    • Lewis, C. “Frybread wars: biopolitics and the consequences of selective United States healthcare practices for American Indians.” Food, Culture and Society 21, no. 4 (August 8, 2018): 427–48. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2018.1480644.
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    • Lewis, Courtney. “Betting on Western North Carolina: Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort’s Regional Impacts.” Journal of Appalachian Studies 23, no. 1 (April 1, 2017): 29–52. https://doi.org/10.5406/jappastud.23.1.0029.
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    • Lewis, C. “The case of the wild onions: The impact of ramps on cherokee rights.” Southern Cultures 18, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 104–17. https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.2012.0019.
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  • Book Sections

    • Lewis, Courtney. “Native Food Sovereignty.” In Edible North Carolina A Journey Across a State of Flavor, edited by Marcie Cohen-Ferris, 2022.
    • Lewis, C. “Economic sovereignty in volatile times: Eastern band of cherokee Indians’ strategies supporting economic stability.” In Research in Economic Anthropology, 38:175–98, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0190-128120180000038009.
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• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • CULANTH 109: American Indians Go Graphic 2023
  • ENGLISH 172: American Indians Go Graphic 2023
  • ICS 126: American Indians Go Graphic 2023
  • LIT 104: American Indians Go Graphic 2023
  • RIGHTS 109: American Indians Go Graphic 2023
  • CULANTH 102: American Indian Nations Today 2022
  • ICS 120: American Indian Nations Today 2022
  • LIT 103: American Indian Nations Today 2022
  • RIGHTS 123: American Indian Nations Today 2022

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