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Interests: Dr. Fast is presently an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Liberal Studies at the University of Alaska Anchorage where she has taught since 2005. Prior to that she taught in the Alaska Native Studies Department at the University of Alaska Fairbanks from 1995 to 2004. In 2004 she taught for the Department of English at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Fast was born and raised in Anchorage, where she graduated from East Anchorage High School. She received a BA in English from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, an interdisciplinary M.A. in Anthropology and English on Alaska Native Literary Forms from the University of Alaska Anchorage, and a PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University in 1998. After receiving her first degree at UAF, Fast studied both western and Alaska Native art, and developed a career as a gallery artist in Anchorage. Her research interests are related to Alaska Native peoples, literary, visual and performative arts, as well as areas of transnational political and social economy as it relates to indigenous peoples, particularly in the area of gender relations. She is the author of Northern Athabascan Survival: Women, Community and the Future. Inspired and mentored by Maori scholars, Graham and Linda T. Smith, Fast is a member of the Alaska Native PhD Statewide Steering Committee, a community of Alaska Natives in academia who seek to mentor young Alaska Natives throughout their academic careers.
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