B.A., Skidmore College
M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
Year Joined RCNJ: 1992
Courses Offered:
Introduction to U.S. History II, Turn of the Century America, The American West, America Between the Wars, 1919-1941, Native Americans, History Seminar, Native Americans in the Post-Columbian World (MALS Program).
Teaching Interest:
Late nineteenth and early twentieth century American history, history of the American West, American Indian history.
Research Interest:
How cultures interact with one another in the United States, and so the West; Ways regional identity was constructed in the Southwest; Relations between Indians and Whites in the history of the West
Recent Publications:
Co-editor with Diana Royer, Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures (University of Arizona Press, 2001)