James V. Fenelon

After serving in the U.S. Navy (1972–76), Fenelon went to Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, completed a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts in 1978; in 1981 earned a Master of International Administration from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont with a thesis titled "Towards Social Consciousness"; earned a Master of Arts in teaching, thesis titled "The Martinique Workshops: In-service Teacher Training" in 1983. In the Caribbean, East Asian countries, and Indigenous Nations, he continued academic pursuits, towards comparative sociology, doing Advanced Studies at Harvard, earning a PhD from Northwestern University in 1995, with the thesis: "Culturicide, Resistance, Survival: Cultural Domination of Lakota Oyate".{{Cite web|url=https://www.csusb.edu/profile/jfenelon|title=James Fenelon | CSUSB|website=www.csusb.edu}}

Fenelon began teaching as an (ESL) Instructor at the Haitian-American Institute, coordination of language workshops in Martinique in 1983, held teaching positions at the Shanghai International Studies University in China (1983–84), and Coordinator/Instructor of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) at institutions around Tokyo including SONY, Newport University in Japan, SUMITOMO (1984–85), and Lecturer at the Universiti Teknologi MARA and University of Maryland in Malaysia in 1985 and University of Texas consortium in 1986. He served as Project Director at Standing Rock College, ND (1987–88), and Trainer/Coordinator at the Midwest Multifunctional Bilingual Education Resource Center, Des Plaines, IL (1988–1992). Upon completing his PhD, he became assistant professor at John Carroll University,{{Cite web|url=https://www.vassar.edu/chronology/records/1998/1998-02-19-Fenellon.html|title=1998, February 19. Sociologist Dr. James V. Fenellon from John Carroll University spoke on "Chief Wahoo and the Cleveland Indians: Global Icons and Symbolic Racism" for Equal Rights Awareness Day sponsored by the student organization P.E.A.C.E. – A Documentary Chronicle of Vassar College|website=www.vassar.edu}}{{Dead link|date=June 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and joined California State University, San Bernardino as assistant professor of sociology in 1999, associate professor in 2002, and 2005 professor of sociology; and Lang Visiting Professor for Social Change at Swarthmore College, 2021 to 2023.

He was workshop Director in Languages at Chambre de Commerce, Fort-de-France, briefly served North Dakota's Indian Education Office and Economic Development Commission in 1988 and is founding Director of the Center for Indigenous Peoples Studies at California State University, San Bernardino. He worked with the Water Resources Policy Institute for the CSU, and on ethnohistory of Lenape: hoking.{{cite web|url= https://sawpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/OWOW-DCI-CDE-Santa-Ana-River-Watershed-Community-Water-Experiences_-An-Ethnographic-Strengths-and-Needs-Assessment-full-report-wit.pdf |title=Community Water Experiences}}

Fenelon's research on Indigenous communities contributed to understanding the cultural domination of Native Nations and struggles of American Indians over sovereignty, along with global issues of race and racism; authored numerous publications: books, and more than 40 peer-reviewed articles.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=MfSCXLkAAAAJ|title=James Fenelon|website=scholar.google.com}}

He was Principal Investigator of "Native American/Tribal Water and Land – Listening Sessions," and Senior Research Fellow on "Indigenous Perspectives on Water, Land & Traditional Culture" titled Water Talks.

Fenelon's research highlighted survivance, resistance, and resurgence communities.{{Cite journal|url=http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/307|title=The Futures of Indigenous Peoples: 9-11 and the Trajectory of Indigenous Survival and Resistance|first1=Thomas D.|last1=Hall|first2=James V.|last2=Fenelon|date=February 26, 2004|journal=Journal of World-Systems Research|pages=153–197|via=jwsr.pitt.edu|doi=10.5195/jwsr.2004.307|doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14747730701574478|title=Indigenous Movements and Globalization: What is Different? What is the Same?|first1=Thomas D.|last1=Hall|first2=James V.|last2=Fenelon|date=March 19, 2008|journal=Globalizations|volume=5|issue=1|pages=1–11|via=CrossRef|doi=10.1080/14747730701574478|bibcode=2008Glob....5....1H |s2cid=145174420 |url-access=subscription}} He wrote the book Indigenous Peoples and Globalization, Resistance, and Revitalization in this area, with reviewers noting that "despite their unique cultural and historical origins, all indigenous resistance movements share some common features because they are all formed in reaction to state oppression".{{cite journal | last=Babones | first=Salvatore | title=Book Review: Indigenous Peoples and Globalization: Resistance and Revitalization: Thomas D. Hall and James V. Fenelon Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. 2009, 185 pp | journal=Journal of Sociology | volume=46 | issue=2 | date=2010 | issn=1440-7833 | doi=10.1177/1440783310364444 | pages=207–209 | s2cid=143588528}}He introduced models for indigenous movements, and resistance to state domination in the context of neoliberalism.{{cite journal|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002764208318938?journalCode=absb|title=Revitalization and Indigenous Resistance to Globalization and Neoliberalism|year=2008 |doi=10.1177/0002764208318938 |last1=Fenelon |first1=James V. |last2=Hall |first2=Thomas D. |journal=American Behavioral Scientist |volume=51 |issue=12 |pages=1867–1901 |s2cid=144846172 |url-access=subscription }} He has worked on indigenous environmental sociology{{Cite journal|url=https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/sociology-publications/6|title=Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene|first1=James|last1=Fenelon|first2=Jennifer|last2=Alford|date=January 1, 2020|journal=Journal of World-Systems Research|volume=26|issue=2|pages=372–399|doi=10.5195/JWSR.2020.996|s2cid=221691346 |doi-access=free}} and (with Kari Marie Norgaard) in Towards an Indigenous Environmental Sociology.{{cite book|chapter-url= https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-77712-8_23|chapter= Towards an Indigenous Environmental Sociology|doi= 10.1007/978-3-030-77712-8_23|title= Handbook of Environmental Sociology|series= Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research|year= 2021|last1= Norgaard|first1= Kari Marie|last2= Fenelon|first2= James V.|pages= 477–494|isbn= 978-3-030-77711-1|s2cid= 240430050}}

Fenelon has conducted research on race and structural racism.{{cite web|url=https://meridian.allenpress.com/aicrj/article-abstract/22/4/273/211392/Discrimination-and-Indigenous-Identity-in-Chicago|title=Discrimination and Indigenous Identity in Chicago's Native Community}}{{Dead link|date=June 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite journal|url=http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/607|title=Genocide, Race, Capitalism: Synopsis of Formation within the Modern World-system|first=James V.|last=Fenelon|date=March 22, 2016|journal=Journal of World-Systems Research|volume=22|issue=1|pages=23–30|via=jwsr.pitt.edu|doi=10.5195/jwsr.2016.607|doi-access=free}} In Culturicide, Resistance and Survival of the Lakota ("Sioux Nation"), he developed theories and methodologies of the domination of Native Americans.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DYDeLzTyWQQC|title=Culturicide, Resistance, and Survival of the Lakota ("Sioux Nation")|first=James V.|last=Fenelon|date=May 19, 1998|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780815331193 |via=Google Books}} Redskins? Sports Mascots, Indian Nations and White Racism examines team names in institutional racism.{{cite journal|title=Redskins? Sports Mascots, Indian Nations and White Racism|year=2018 |doi=10.1177/0094306117744805p |last1=Montez De Oca |first1=Jeffrey |journal=Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews |volume=47 |pages=67–68 |s2cid=220170165 |doi-access=free }} In Immigration as Racial Dominance Since 1492, he analyzed migration,{{cite book|chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003179047-3/immigration-racial-dominance-since-1492-james-fenelon|chapter=Immigration as Racial Dominance Since 1492|doi=10.4324/9781003179047-3 |title=Migration, Racism and Labor Exploitation in the World-System |year=2021 |last1=Fenelon |first1=James V. |pages=11–28 |isbn=9781003179047 |s2cid=237700342 }} and in Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492–1790 he focused on supremacy and sovereignty, employed in building colonial and capitalist global domination.{{cite web|url=https://booksirelandmagazine.com/book/indian-black-and-irish-indigenous-nations-african-peoples-european-invasions-1492-1790/|title=Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions, 1492–1790}}

• Culturicide, Resistance and Survival of the Lakota (“Sioux Nation”) (1998) {{ISBN|978-0-8153-3119-3}}
• Indigenous Peoples and Globalization, Resistance and Revitalization with Thomas Hall (2009) {{ISBN|978-1-59451-658-0}}
• Redskins? Sports Mascots, Indian Nations and White Racism (2017) {{ISBN|978-1-61205-740-8}}
• Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions (2023) {{ISBN|978-1-003-31508-7}}

• Fenelon, J. V., & LeBeau, D. (2006). Four directions for Indian Education: Curriculum models for Lakota/Dakota teaching & learning, in Indigenous Education & Empowerment: International Perspectives, editors: Ismael Abu-Saad & Duane Champagne, (Alta Mira) indigenous and minority education, 21–68.
• Fenelon, J. V. (2018). The Struggle of Indigenous Americans: A Socio-Historical View. Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations, 9–31.
• Fenelon, J. V. (2021). Immigration as Racial Dominance Since 1492: Migration and the Modern World-System of the Americas. In Migration, Racism and Labor Exploitation in the World-System (pp. 11–28). Routledge.

• Fenelon, J. V. (1997). From peripheral domination to internal colonialism: Socio-political change of the Lakota on Standing Rock. Journal of World-Systems Research, 259–320. {{doi|10.5195/jwsr.1997.110}}
• Fenelon, J. (2003). Race, research, and tenure: Institutional credibility and the incorporation of African, Latino, and American Indian faculty. Journal of Black Studies, 34(1), 87–100. {{doi|10.1177/0021934703253661}}
• Fenelon, J. V., & Murguía, S. J. (2008). Indigenous peoples: Globalization, resistance, and revitalization. American Behavioral Scientist, 51(12), 1656–1671.
• Fenelon, J. V., & C. E. Trafzer. (2014). From Colonialism to Denial of California Genocide to Mis-Representation: Indigenous Struggles in the Americas. American Behavioral Scientist, 58, No.1. {{doi|10.1177/000276421349504}}
• Fenelon, J. V. (2016). Genocide, race, capitalism: Synopsis of formation within the modern world-system. Journal of World-Systems Research, 22(1), 23–30. {{doi|10.5195/jwsr.2016.607}}
• Fenelon, J., & Alford, J. (2020). Envisioning Indigenous Models for Social and Ecological Change in the Anthropocene. Journal of World-Systems Research, 26(2), 372. {{doi|10.5195/jwsr.2020.996}}

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