Sarah Deer

Sarah Deer is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. Deer was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2014 and a Carnegie Fellow in 2020. She teaches at the University of Kansas, where she holds a joint appointment in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Her efforts to address crime on Indian reservations have received national awards from the American Bar Association and the Department of Justice.