Malloy, Kerri J.

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Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies
Director, Ethnic Studies Collaborative
Managing Editor, csuglobal

Email

Preferred: kerri.malloy@sjsu.edu

Telephone

Preferred: 408-924-5861

Office Hours

Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:30 pm- 12:30 pm

 

 

Education

  • Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Gratz College, Melrose Park, Pennsylvania, 2021
  • Master of Jurisprudence (MJ), Indian Law, University of Tulsa, College of Law, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2016
  • Bachelor of Arts (BA), Native American Studies, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, 2014
  • Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics, Humboldt State University, Arcata, California, 2014

Bio

Kerri J. Malloy (Yurok/Karuk) is an assistant professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at San José State University, specializing in Indigenous and genocide studies. His research focuses on the genocide of Indigenous peoples and the ongoing healing and reconciliation in North America. His work interrogates the need for systemic change in social structures and the promotion of transitional justice in response to human rights violations through judicial and political reform. He serves on the Advisory Board and as chair of the Indigenous Peoples Caucus of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

Dr. Malloy has worked in the field of Native American and Indigenous Studies for ten years, seven of which as a lecturer in the Department of Native American Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, and in the development of a Native American and Indigenous Studies program at San José State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Gratz College, where his doctoral research combined Indigenous, Genocide, and Settler Colonial Studies to analyze anti-Indian violence in Northern California in the 1800s. He earned a Master of Jurisprudence in Federal Indian Law from the University of Tulsa, College of Law, where his thesis examined the lasting impacts of the Termination Era on California Tribes.

Before transitioning to higher education, Dr. Malloy served in administrative roles with federally recognized tribes and as chair of the Yurok Indian Housing Authority. He has over fifteen years of experience working with tribes, which informs his teaching of federal Indian law, tribal-state relations, and tribal government and jurisprudence. He has been recognized for his expertise in the history of Native Americans and the United States as a speaker at the 2023 Human Rights Summit at the University of Connecticut’s Dodd Center for Human Rights. as a Fellow-in-Residence at the Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Promoting and Protecting Civil and Human Rights sponsored by the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities (formerly the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation), and an invited faculty in The Zoryan Institute’s Genocide and Human Rights University Program.  

Dr. Malloy’s research focuses on the history of anti-Indian violence in the United States, with emphasis on California, and explores the potential and obstacle of employing transitional justice to address the experiences of genocide and mass atrocity that unfolded. His published work includes chapters, articles, and a special edition of the Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, which interrogates the history of anti-Indian violence, land dispossession, Indigenous rights, and reconciliation. His current projects include an analysis of the eighteen unratified treaties between California tribes and the United States, the legal status of California Indians, and as part of a research team documenting the experiences of Native Americans and Indigenous at San José State University.

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