I am a military historian broadly interested in the ways in which societies have organized violence to pursue and defend their interests. I am especially interested in the ethnohistorical study of military conflict and cooperation between the Native peoples of North America and European colonial powers. More generally, I am interested in Native American and …
I study race, citizenship, and Native-settler interaction in the United States, particularly in the nineteenth century. I am interested in the connections between the histories of slavery, emancipation, and Reconstruction and the dynamics of Native American life and U.S. conquest; in questions and projects of historical reckoning; and in the ways narrative and genre function …
I’m an interdisciplinary scholar of twentieth century American Indian and Indigenous histories, with a special focus on the Great Lakes. My research interests include Indigenous social movements and urban histories, special focus on Indigenous cultural, communal, and political continuity. I’m also interested in the gender dynamics at play in multiple different forms of Indigenous activism. …
I am a scholar of United States history and Native American and Indigenous Studies, with a particular research focus on Native schooling. I teach courses in American Indian History, Native education, and environmental history. My first book, Instrumental Indians: John Dewey and Indigenous Schools (UPenn Press, 2026) is an intellectual history of America’s most prominent …