Rifkin, Mark: - Mark Rifkin is Professor of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. He is the author of eight other books, including The Politics of Kinship: Race, Family, Governance (2024), Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination (2017), and When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty (2011). His work has won a number of national awards, including the John Hope Franklin Prize for best book in American Studies, the Subsequent Book Prize from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and the Best Special Issue award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. He also has served as president of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.