Robert Warrior (born 1963, Osage), is a scholar and Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas. With Paul Chaat Smith, he co-authored Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.^[1] He is generally recognized, along with Craig Womack, as being one of the founders of American Indian literary nationalism.^[2] Warrior served as president of the American Studies Association from 2016 to 2017.^[3]

Robert Allen Warrior was born in Marion County, Kansas, in 1963.^[4] Warrior belongs to the Grayhorse District of the Osage Nation.^[5]

He earned a bachelor's degree in speech communication from Pepperdine University, a master's degree in religion from Yale University, and a doctoral degree in systematic theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City.^[5]

In 1999, Warrior taught at Cornell University.^[4] Warrior previously taught at Stanford University, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Illinois.^[1] He has served as president of the American Studies Association (ASA) and helped found the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA).^[5]

In 2018, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences inducted Warrior.^[6]

• The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)^[1] ISBN 978-0-81664-617-3, part of the Indigenous Americas series
• with Paul Chaat Smith, Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee (The New Press, 1996)^[1] ISBN 978-1-56584-402-5
• Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (University of Minnesota Press, 1994)^[1] ISBN 978-0-81662-379-2
• Canaanites, cowboys, and Indians Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 59(1-2), 1–8.
• co-author of American Indian Literary Nationalism (University of New Mexico Press, 2008)^[1]
• co-author of Reasoning Together: the Native Critics Collective (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009).^[1]