Professor David Shane Lowry - A Sports Love Letter To MIT

David Shane Lowry (Lumbee) is an anthropologist and the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT. In this role, David is leading a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community.

Since 2013, David has lectured across the United States – roles in which he has become well versed in conversations at the intersection of race, (health) science & popular culture. Between 2013 and 2017, he introduced medical humanities conversations into Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science.

His first book, titled Lumbee Pipelines (under contract with University of Nebraska Press), explores American Indian utilization of colonial conditions to create opportunities that are both uplifting and oppressive. His second book, titled Black Jesus, is an ethnography of Michael Jordan. It began when David realized that he and Jordan shared the same anthropology advisor at UNC … 23 years apart. David is a graduate of MIT (S.B.) and UNC-Chapel Hill (M.A. and Ph.D.). His graduate work was funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF).

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