Audra Simpson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press). She is the editor of the Syracuse University's reprint of Lewis Henry Morgan's anthropological classic, League of the Haudenosaunee (under contract) and co-editor (with Andrea Smith) of the 10 chapter collection Theorizing Native Studies, (Duke University Press). She has articles in Cultural Anthropology, American Quarterly, Junctures, Law and Contemporary Problems and Wicazo Sa Review. She contributed to the edited volume Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (Cambridge: Cambridge Press 2000) and was the volume editor of Recherches amerindiennes au quebec (RAQ: 1999) on "new directions in Iroquois studies." She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Fulbright, the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Dartmouth College, the American Anthropological Association, Cornell University and the School for Advanced Research (Santa Fe, NM). In 2010 she won Columbia University's School for General Studies "Excellence in Teaching Award." She is a Kahnawake Mohawk.