Circe Sturm

Circe Sturm is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the intersections of race, indigeneity, religion, and identity in the United States, particularly among the Cherokee people. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of Oklahoma. Her work examines how constructions of race and belonging shape Native American identity and political mobilization. Sturm is known for her scholarship on Cherokee cultural revitalization movements, blood quantum debates, and the relationship between tribal sovereignty and federal recognition. Her research contributes to broader anthropological understandings of ethnicity, nationalism, and the politics of recognition within settler colonial contexts. She has also examined the role of religious beliefs and practices in shaping Cherokee identity and social life.