Alan Shane Dillingham

During his year at CASBS, Alan Shane Dillingham will work on a narrative non-fiction book that uses family history to explore the intersection of Native dispossession and chattel slavery in the Americas. Tracing the experience of his ancestors, removed from Mississippi to Indian Territory on the Trail of Tears, Dillingham will examine how slavery fueled the process of Native dispossession while also interrogating how Native Americans participated in systems of oppression. 

Dillingham is a historian interested in Native and Indigenous politics across the Americas, anti-colonialism, and labor and youth-led social movements. He is an associate professor in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. He serves on the editorial boards of the Radical History Review and Labor: Studies in Working-Class History. He also serves on the international collective of the Tepoztlán Institute for the Transnational History of the Americas. His first book, Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2021) won two awards; the American Society for Ethnohistory's Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award and the Conference on Latin American History's María Elena Martínez Prize in Mexican History.

For more information, please visit: www.alanshanedillingham.com