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"Possessed of the most Extensive Trade, Connexions and Influence": The Atlantic Intimacies of an Eighteenth Century Indian Trader
(2014-12)
This project examines the life of George Galphin, an Indian trader in Georgia and South Carolina during the eighteenth century. In particular, my work represents a historiographical intervention in Atlantic World scholarship. ...
"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 ...
"People to Our Selves": Chickasaw Diplomacy and Political Development in the Nineteenth Century
(2012)
This project adopts an international relations perspective to examine how the Chickasaws conceptualized their position within the unraveling system of western imperial involvement in North America from the American Revolution ...
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 ...
Indigenous Nationalism on the Wind River Indian Reservation, 1851-1938
(2013)
This dissertation seeks to alter the ways in which scholars address indigenous group formation. Instead of adhering to the rather pervasive, and anthropologically based, band/tribe/nation approach, this work argues that ...
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 ...
OKLAHOMA AND THE ERA : ROUSING A RED STATE, 1972-1982
(2010)
From 1972 through 1982, the national battle over the Equal Rights Amendment fomented dissension and unrest. Far from the early and easy passage many Americans envisioned for the amendment, the ERA brought to the nation a ...
Women and the Construction of American Indian Scholarship, 1830-1941
(2012)
Between 1830-1941 a select group of European American women's rights proponents crafted a body of American Indian scholarship through which they were able to exercise an extraordinary degree of social and political influence. ...
Indigenous Nationalism on the Wind River Indian Reservation, 1851-1938
(2013)
This dissertation seeks to alter the ways in which scholars address indigenous group formation. Instead of adhering to the rather pervasive, and anthropologically based, band/tribe/nation approach, this work argues that ...
Under the Eyes of God: The Huichols and the Mexican State, 1810-1910
(2011)
This study reconstructs the history the Huichol Indians in order to provide a pathbreaking account of a Mexican indigenous group that managed to maintain their autonomy between 1810 and 1910. To date, there has been ...