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Intertribal Interactions, Relationality, and Community Resilience in The Northeastern Oklahoma Indian Nations, 1800-1930
(2018-05-11)
My research explores nation building among the nine small American Indian nations located in northeastern Oklahoma after forced removal. The distinct sovereign small Native nations who relocated to the corner of the state ...
The Revolution in Crisis: A History of Human Rights in Mexico, 1970-1980
(2016-05-14)
This work looks at the proliferation of human rights in Mexico in the 1970s. By looking at how the term entered Mexico, one can determine that individualistic notions of rights (human rights) proliferated in Mexico in the ...
Extinguishing the Green Fire: Opposition to Environmentalism, 1948-2010
(2011)
This dissertation identifies the origins and characteristics of late-twentieth century opposition to environmentalism in the United States. I argue that a diverse set of critics cultivated a loose network of ideas, tactics, ...
"Drain the Swamps for Health and Home": Wetlands Drainage, Land Conservation, and National Water Policy, 1850-1917
(2010)
Wetlands drainage is one of the oldest and commonest forms of land modification in American history. Colonists and later Americans perceived wetlands as a threat to progress and prosperity. Wetlands impeded travel, ...
RADICAL REACTIONS: THE FIRST RED SCARE IN THE GREAT PLAINS AND THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDERLANDS, 1918-1920
(2017-05-12)
This dissertation will focus on the First Red Scare in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. The First Red Scare was a wave of mass panic and hysteria directed against suspected radicals, leftists, anarchist, and Communist ...
Becoming America's Ski City: Place and Identity on the Wasatch Front
(2018-12)
“Becoming America’s Ski City” explores how skiers remolded the political, economic,
cultural, and environmental landscape of Utah’s Wasatch Front, transforming the region’s valley
cities and mountain forests into a more ...
Public Interest, Private Lands: Soil Conservation in the United States, 1890-1940
(2014-05)
My dissertation is a history of soil conservation in the United States between 1890 and 1940. In a democracy founded, in part, on the principle of private property rights, how have Americans sought to protect the public ...
Medicine Worse than the Malady: Indian Health, Colonization, and the Wind River Reservation, 1800-1928
(2014-05-09)
At the turn of the century Native Americans represented a wide variety of cultures, economic situations, regions, and historical experiences. Yet unusually high rates of tuberculosis, trachoma, and infant mortality were ...
The Forgotten Warriors: Keetoowah Abolitionists, Revitalization, the Search for Modernity and the Struggle for Autonomy in the Cherokee Nation, 1800-1866
(2013)
My research focuses on the revitalization of the Cherokee Keetoowah
HIT LIST: PRESIDENT CARTER'S REVIEW OF RECLAMATION WATER PROJECTS AND HIS IMPACT ON FEDERAL WATER POLICY
(2013)
This dissertation investigates changes in funding of federal water projects and the development of new water policies during the administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. I conclude that these events ...