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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 ...
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 ...
Willy Ley, the Science Writers, and the Popular Reenchantment of Science
(2014-05-08)
This dissertation explores the life and career of Willy Ley, a science writer and popularizer of spaceflight technology in Germany and the United States during the twentieth century. By following his various “campaigns” ...
"Red Devil Radicals": The Birth and Growth of Americanism in Chicago, 1870-1919
(2014-05)
In the midst of the struggle to reunite and reconstruct the nation following the Civil War, citizens of the United States also began to renegotiate what it meant to truly be an American. As the nation attempted to recover ...
Desegregating the Line of Scrimmage: Race and College Football in the Southwest
(2014-12)
This dissertation traces the racial desegregation of major college football in the states of Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas from the end of World War II through the mid-1970s. Moving beyond the realm of sport, it links ...
Robert M. Jones and the Choctaw Nation: Indigenous Nationalism in the American South, 1820-1877
(2014-05)
This project examines the social, political, and economic transformations that shaped Choctaw nationhood following Indian Removal in the 1830s. Specifically, I argue that, unlike the other Five Tribes, the Choctaw Nation ...
SUBSTANCE ABUSE, CRIME AND RECIDIVISM ON THE SOUTHERN UTE INDIAN RESERVATION
(2015)
Native American tribes are considered dependent-sovereign nations within the United States of America. As such, tribes operate governments under independent constitutions and by-laws. Self-government in judicial matters ...
A RIVER OF CONTINUITY, TRIBUTARIES OF CHANGE: THE CHICKASAWS AND THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER, 1735-1795
(2015-12)
This project examines the relationships between the Chickasaw Indians and the Mississippi River between 1735 and 1795. Chickasaws imagined, managed, and manipulated the river in a number of ways. For them, the Mississippi ...