Darren Lone Fight
Darren Edward Lone Fight (January 11th, 1981) Mandan Hidatsa Arikara and Mvskoke, is an American academic, known for his work in philosophy, religion, and American Studies. Originally from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, he belongs to the Dripping Dirt clan and is a Child of the Low Cap clan.
Lone Fight completed his bachelor's degree in philosophy and religion at the University of North Dakota. He furthered his studies at the University of Massachusetts, earning a master's and a PhD in American Studies. During his time in grad school, Lone Fight also held teaching positions at UMass and other colleges in Western Massachusetts.
After finishing his doctorate, he took a visiting position at Tufts University in Medford, near Boston. In 2020, he moved to Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he was the institution's first Indigenous tenure-track faculty member.
Lone Fight's work has focused primarily in the fields of philosophy, religion, American Studies, and indigenous Futurism. His most notable work Knotting Ontologies, Beading Aesthetics, and Braiding Temporalities is a blend of philosophy, aesthetics, and temporality, that showcases Lone Fight's distinct approach to the indigenization of academic scholarship.
His tenure at Dickinson College is noteworthy for his founding of Center For The Futures Of Native Peoples.
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- ↑ Dickinson College. "Faculty Profile - Darren Lone Fight". Retrieved 2023-08-02.
- ↑ "Q&A: Darren Lone Fight, Founder, Center for the Futures of Native Peoples at Dickinson College". Retrieved 2023-08-02.
- ↑ Lone Fight, Darren Edward (2019). "The Indigenous Imposition: Settling Expectation, Unsettling Revision, and the Politics of Playing with Familiarity". SAIL. 31 (3–4).
