Troy Richardson

Associate Professor, Philosophy of Education, American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program

Troy Richardson (Saponi, Ska:rù:rę'/Tuscarora) is on leave Fall 2026.

As an Associate Professor of Philosophy of Education and American Indian and Indigenous Studies, Troy's current research and teaching take up the Philosophies of Colonialism, with specific attention to the variety of ways the discipline of philosophy has and continues to work toward the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous peoples. Through this work, Troy continues to be attentive to the challenges and possibilities for relational ethics between Indigenous, settler and arrivant peoples in education and research.

Recent Research

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2023 - Promoting Biological and Linguistic Diversity Through Indigenous Language and Land-Based Practices - Grant awarded by Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability Academic Venture Fund.
2023 - Mellon Foundation Just Futures Initiative, part of the Cornell Migrations Initiative, has awarded funding to John Whitman and Troy Richardson (AIISP) to support ongoing research
and outreach on the documentation, maintenance, and revitalization of the Indigenous
languages of our region, Gayogohó꞉nǫʔ (Cayuga) and Deyodiho:nǫʔ (Tutelo).
2019 - Richardson, T. (2019). Open‐Mindedness in a “Post‐Truth” Era. Educational Theory, 69(4), 439–453. https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.12385
2012 - Richardson, Troy. (2012). Disrupting the Coloniality of Being: Toward De-colonial Ontologies in Philosophy of Education. Studies in Philosophy and Education. 31. 10.1007/s11217-011-9284-1.
2012 - Richardson, Troy. (2012). Indigenous Political Difference, Colonial Perspectives and the Challenge of Diplomatic Relations: Toward a Decolonial Diplomacy in Multicultural Educational Theory. Educational Studies. 48. 465-484. 10.1080/00131946.2011.647153.
2012 - Richardson, T. A. (2012). Indigenous knowledge and the machinist metaphors of the bricoleur researcher. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 26(7), 780–801. https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2012.666290
2012 - Richardson, T. A. (2012). Indigenous Political Difference, Colonial Perspectives and the Challenge of Diplomatic Relations: Toward a Decolonial Diplomacy in Multicultural Educational Theory. Educational Studies, 48(5), 465–484. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2011.647153

Courses Taught

AIIS 4000: Critical Approaches to AIIS
AIIS 6000: Critical Approaches to AIIS
AIIS 4200: Locke and the Philosophies of Dispossession: Indigenous America's Interruptions and Resistances
AIIS 6200: Locke and the Philosophies of Dispossession: Indigenous America's Interruptions and Resistances
AIIS 4300: Indigenous Peoples and Decolonial Philosophies
AIIS 6300: Indigenous Peoples and Decolonial Philosophies

Contact Information

121 Reservoir Ave
Office - 492 Caldwell Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

(607) 254-4681

TAR37 [at] cornell.edu