Salameno School of American and International Studies (SSAIS)

Professor of History

Year Joined RCNJ: 1992

Contact Information:

• Phone: (201) 684-7474
• E-mail: cmeyer@ramapo.edu  
• Office: B-234
• Office Hours: MR 1:30-3:00 PM

Education:

• B.A., Skidmore College
• M.A., Ph.D., Brown University

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 Interests:

• Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century American History
• History of the American West
• American Indian history

Research Interests:

• 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:

• "Art Authenticity and Identity at Santa Fe Indian Market" in Elizabeth Delaney Hoffman, ed., _ American Indians and Popular Culture_ Praeger Publishers (Feb. 2012 expected publication).
• Forthcoming book manuscript on Edgar L. Hewett, archaeologist, educator, founder of the Museum of New Mexico and School of American Research, and a major influence in the development of Southwestern identity in the early twentieth century
• "'A Battle Between Art and Progress': Edgar Hewett and the Politics of Region in the Early Twentieth Century Southwest," Montana: The Magazine of Western History 56:3 (fall 2006): 47-59.
• Co-editor with Diana Royer, Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures (University of Arizona Press, 2001)