Zada Ballew
Position title: TA: History 393 with Professor Kantrowitz
Email: zballew@wisc.edu
Address:
Advisor: Stephen Kantrowitz
Office: 4260 Mosse Humanities Building
Mailbox: 5080 Mosse Humanities Building
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12:00-2:00 or by appointment
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”
Selected Publications
- “On Listening: A Reflection on the Challenges and Opportunities of Writing Native Histories of UW-Madison.” Public History Project Blog, November 8, 2021.
Selected Awards
- Graduate Student Essay Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE), 2022
- Early Excellence Teaching Assistant Award, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2021
- Kate Everest Levi Second-Year Paper Prize, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2021
Courses Taught as TA
- History 109 – Who is an American?
- History 460 – American Environmental History
- History 490 – American Indian History