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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 ...
"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 ...
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 ...
"ALL THE WOMEN...WERE VIOLATED IN THIS WAY: RHETORIC, RAPE, AND MEMORY IN THE DAKOTA WAR
(2015-05)
Over the course of the six weeks of fighting during the Dakota War of 1862, Dakota warriors held more than 200 white women and children captive. In the aftermath of the war, the rhetoric of reporters, policymakers, military ...
Reservation Limits: American Indian Urbanization and Uplift in the Twentieth Century
(2014-04-30)
This dissertation takes a macro view of American Indian urbanization and off-reservation employment across the twentieth century, and does so through a wide-angle lens that is not tribe or destination specific. While the ...