Robert Warrior (born 1963, Osage), is a scholar and Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas. With Paul Chaat Smith, he co-authored Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.[1] He is generally recognized, along with Craig Womack, as being one of the founders of American Indian literary nationalism.[2] Warrior served as president of the American Studies Association from 2016 to 2017.[3]
Robert Allen Warrior was born in Marion County, Kansas, in 1963.[4] Warrior belongs to the Grayhorse District of the Osage Nation.[5]
He earned a bachelor's degree in speech communication from Pepperdine University, a master's degree in religion from Yale University, and a doctoral degree in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.[5]
In 1999, Warrior taught at Cornell University.[4] Warrior previously taught at Stanford University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Illinois.[1] He has served as president of the American Studies Association (ASA) and helped found the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).[5]
In 2018, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted Warrior.[6]