Unsettling Intercultural Communication; Rethinking Colonialism through Indigeneity

Santhosh Chandrashekar (Ph.D., University of New Mexico) is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Denver. He lives and works on the unceded ancestral territories of the Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and other Indigenous nations. Originally from the Indian subcontinent, he lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for a decade where Indigenous people taught him about how settler colonialism continues to be a pressing reality in their lives and how they continue to thrive despite its effects. His research is focused on analyzing the entanglement of colonialism and race as they intersect with gender, sexuality, religion, and nationalism (among others); caste/ism; and Islamophobia. His work has appeared in the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Western Journal of Communication, and Cultural Studies↔Critical Methodologies, among others.

Bernadette Marie Calafell (Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) is a queer Chicana and hip-hop feminist living in the Pacific Northwest. She is a Professor of Latina/ox studies in the department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research is focused on queer of color theory, Latina/o/x studies, women of color feminisms, performance studies, and monstrosity. She has co-edited six books and authored Latina/o Communication Studies: Theorizing Performance and Monstrosity, Performance, and Race in Contemporary Culture.