Shanya Cordis (she/her) is a first-generation Black and Indigenous (Lokono and Warrau) Guyanese American. As a sociocultural anthropologist, she specializes in African & African Diaspora Studies and Native American & Indigenous Studies. Broadly speaking, her research focuses on indigeneity and antiblackness across the Americas and the Caribbean, black and indigenous political subjectivities and resistance, transnational black and indigenous feminisms, and black feminist geographies. Her work examines how colonial and imperial legacies mediate and form the grounds of black and indigenous unfreedoms and liberatory struggles. Her forthcoming manuscript, Unsettling Geographies: Antiblackness, Gendered Violence, and Indigenous Dispossession in Guyana is a critical feminist ethnography that tracks how geographies of racial difference undergird indigenous recognition policies, extractive economies, and neocolonial capitalism, advancing the annexation of indigenous territories and entrenching antiblack logics. Secondly, Unsettling Geographies introduces relational difference, a theoretical framework which captures the social and political entanglements of the afterlives of slavery, conquest, and indentureship and its constitutively gendered and sexualized nature. Through an intersectional analysis of the racial and sexual imaginaries of the body—namely African, Amerindian, and Indian women— this book also traces how gendered violence is relationally configured and central to colonial capitalist expansion disrupting narratives that depict structural forces of dispossession as merely postcolonial remnants or endemic nationalistic struggles. Her second co-edited and co-authored book, Fugitive Anthropology(forthcoming Fall 2025) examines the embodied limits and generative openings that arise from conducting activist ethnographic research in contexts of colonialism, war and conflict, and racial and gendered violence, particularly for racialized queer, trans and gender expansive researchers.