Zada Ballew
Position title: TA: History 490 with Professor Suarez
Email: zballew@wisc.edu
Address:
Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz
Biography
I study the formation of modern Native America within and beyond the Great Lakes region. My current project chronicles a forgotten history of land claims and land acknowledgments involving my tribe, the Pokégnek Bodéwadmik (Pokagon Band of Potawatomi), at the turn-of-the-twentieth-century.
Education
M.A., U.S./North American History, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2021
B.A., Economics and Psychology, University of Notre Dame, 2019
Field
- U.S./North American History
MA Title
- “‘The Indian Side of the Question’: Settling the Story of Potawatomi Removal in the Twentieth Century Midwest”
Courses Taught as TA
- History 460: American Environmental History
- History 490: American Indian History