Fellow Spotlight: David Treuer

David Treuer’s Academy project is a book-length personal essay about understanding America’s most durable crisis – violence in its schools, policies, and streets.

Publication 6 Dec 2022

David Treuer is a Professor of English at the University of Southern California. His Academy project, “The Savage Mind: An Essay on American Violence,” is a book-length personal essay about understanding the nation’s history and most durable crisis – violence in schools, policies, and streets – in order to free ourselves from it.

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