Stephanie Lumsden (she/her) is a member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. She earned her PhD in Gender Studies at UCLA in 2023. Her research examines the relationship between Indigenous dispossession and the development of the carceral settler state in northwestern California. Stephanie is currently a University of California Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the History department at UC Santa Cruz. In fall 2025, Stephanie will be joining the Native American Studies department at UC Davis as an Assistant Professor.