Anthony Brave

Biography

Tony Brave (Rosebud Sioux Tribe) is a PhD candidate in the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University and an assistant professor in the department of Digital Technology and Culture at Washington State University. His dissertation, United States of Play, is a historically leaning interdisciplinary project drawing from diverse fields such as Native American studies, critical Indigenous theory, play studies, games studies, animation studies, media studies, and American studies, to explore the ways in which settler colonial and Indigenous play are encoded into play objects and structures across time and technologies. He holds an M.Phil in media studies and a MPA degree with an emphasis in tribal governance.