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Ph.D., University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2024.
Dissertation: "Incarcerated Nations: Confinement, Removal, and Policing on the Colorado River Indian Reservation."
Chair: William J. Bauer, Jr.
Committee members: Susan Lee Johnson, Andrew Kirk, Todd Robinson, and Steve Sexton.
Exam Fields (passed with Honors): North American West, U.S. Since 1850, American Indian and Indigenous Studies, and Public History

M.A., University of Wyoming, 2002.
Thesis: "Sterilization and the American Indian Connection."
Chair: Brian Hosmer.
Committee Members: Judy Antell and Ronald Schultz
Concentration: American Indian History

B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1999.
Concentration: U.S. and American Indian History

• Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, University of �ֻ�ֱ��, Fairbanks, 2024 – current.
• Research Assistant for Susan Lee Johnson, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2021-22.
• Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2019-23.
• History Instructor, School of Math and Sciences, Laramie County Community College, 2010-2019.
• Adjunct Instructor, Department of History, University of Wyoming, 2016-2017.
• Adjunct Instructor, School of Math and Sciences, Laramie County Community College, 2005-2010
• Substitute Teacher, Laramie County School District 1, 2008-2009.
• Teaching Assistant, Department of History, University of Wyoming, 2000-2002.

• “Of Service and Ceremonies: Capturing Laguna’s Tribal Stories,” Studies in American Indian Literatures, forthcoming.
• “Desert Convergences: The Gila River Indian Community and Japanese Americans during World War II,” Journal of Arizona History, forthcoming.
• Review of Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps, by Eric Muller, in Journal of Arizona History, forthcoming.
• Review of American Indian Tribal Government: A Critical Perspective, by Stephen Wall, in Wicazo Sa Review, forthcoming.
• Review of Imposing Order without Law: American Expansion to the Eastern Sierra, 1850-1865, by Michael J. Makley, in California History 101, no. 1 (2024): 66-68.
• Review of Making Love with the Land, by Joshua Whitehead, in H-Environment, (May 2023), online.
• Review of Tributary Voices: Literary and Rhetorical Explorations of the Colorado River, by Paul A. Formisano, in The Western Historical Quarterly, online.
• Review of Staging Indigeneity, by Katrina Phillips, in The Journal of Arizona History 63, no. 2 (Summer 2022): 236-239.
• Review of American Indians and the Urban Experience, edited by Susan Lobo and Kurt Peters, in Journal of American Ethnic History 21, no. 4 (2002): 171-72.

• Phi Theta Kappa Distinguished Advisor Team Award, Laramie County Community College, 2019
• Phi Theta Kappa Paragon Advisor Award, Laramie County Community College, 2019
• Teaching Excellence Faculty Achievement Award, Laramie County Community College, 2012 and 2015
• Sage Trio Faculty Recognition Award, Laramie County Community College, 2011
• Milward L. Simpson Graduate Paper Award, University of Wyoming, 2009
• Adjunct Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, Laramie County Community College, 2007
• Phi Alpha Theta, international history honor society, inducted 2000
• Phi Beta Kappa Academic Society, inducted 1999
• Summa Cum Laude graduate, University of Texas at Austin, 1999

• President’s UNLV Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2023-24
• Gunther Barth Fellowship, Bancroft Library, 2023
• Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Autry Museum, 2023
• Arizona Historical Society Research Fellowship, Arizona Historical Society, 2023
• Walter Rundell Award, Western History Association, 2022
• Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellowship, Newberry Library, 2022
• Charles Redd Center Research Award for Upper Division and Graduate Students, Brigham Young University, 2022
• American Heritage Center Travel Grant Recipient, University of Wyoming, 2022
• History Tribute Scholarship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2022
• Harold and Judith Boyer History Fellowship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2021 and 2022
• Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2021 and 2022
• Elli H. Cooper & Laura Lee Ledbetter Endowment for Public History Award, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2021
• Race and Ethnicity Fellowship, Arizona State University Library, 2020
• T.A. Larson Gale McGee Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Wyoming, 2001

Fields:

• Indigenous History; North American Western History
• Early U.S. History
• Modern U.S. History
• American Revolution
• Holocaust

Courses Taught as the Instructor of Record:

• History of the United States, 1877-1945, University of �ֻ�ֱ��, Fairbanks
• Introduction to Native American History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Introduction to American Indian and Indigenous Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• U.S. History to 1865, Laramie County Community College and University of �ֻ�ֱ��, Fairbanks
• U.S. History from 1865, Laramie County Community College
• History of North American Indians, Laramie County Community College
• Wyoming History, Laramie County Community College
• Holocaust, Laramie County Community College
• American Revolution, Laramie County Community College and University of Wyoming
• American Encounters, University of Wyoming Courses

Taught as a Teaching Assistant:

• Hitler and the Constitution, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Indigenous People, Constitutions and Sovereignty, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Revolutions & Constitutions: The US, the USSR, and the IRI, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• Empires and Constitutions, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• History of North American Indians, University of Wyoming Wyoming
• History, University of Wyoming U.S. History to 1865, University of Wyoming

Scholarly Papers:

• “We Live Again!”: The Restoration of the Chemehuevi Indian Reservation,” Western History Association, Los Angeles, October 25, 2023.
• “Carceral Foundations: Imprisonment on the Colorado River Indian Reservation,” Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Cal State Northridge, Los Angeles, August 10, 2023.
• “Surveilling Sex: Policing the Intimate Lives of Indigenous Peoples on the Colorado River Indian Reservation,” Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Conference, Newberry Library, Chicago, February 11, 2023.
• “The Indigenous Roots of Internment,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Online, October 30, 2021.
• “Shared Histories on Indigenous Lands,” Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States, Online, June 8, 2021. Another version presented at the Graduate and Professional Student Association, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, April 2, 2021.
• “Parallels, Intersections, and Divergences: The Gila River Indian Community and Japanese Americans during World War II,” Newberry Consortium of American Indian Studies Graduate Student Conference, Online, February 4, 2021.

Community Presentations:

• “Hollywood and History: The Middle Passage and La Amistad,” Black History Month, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 16, 2019.
• “Reagan and the AIDS Crisis,” Student Activities Pride Month, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, October 13, 2018.
• “Six Songs of Ellis,” Wyoming Humanities Scholar, University of Wyoming Department of Theater and Dance Production, Cheyenne, Sheridan, Torrington, and Casper, Wyoming, May 14-18, 2018.
• “Denial: Distorting History and the Holocaust,” Student Activities, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, November 11, 2018.
• “Birth of a Nation: The Media and Race Relations,” Black History Month, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 14, 2018.
• “The Lakota: Reservations and Wounded Knee,” Student Activities, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, December 2, 2017.
• “LGBTQ Historical Rights (or Lack Thereof),” Student Activities, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, October 17, 2017.
• “The Boston Tea Party,” Learning is for Everyone Program, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, March 13, 2017.
• “Loving v. Virginia,” Student Activities and Black History Month, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 9, 2017.
• "Treaties and Land: Lakota History as a Pretext to #NoDAPL," #NoDAPL community event, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, November 2, 2016.
• “Red Cloud’s War,” Laramie County Historical Society, Laramie County Public Library, Cheyenne, Wyoming, April 10, 2016.
• “African Americans in the Revolution,” African MAAFA Society, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 18, 2016.
• "From Sit-Ins to Fish-Ins,” African MAAFA Society, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, October 10, 2015.
• “Freedom Summer,” Black History Month, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 21, 2015.
• “African Americans in the New World,” African MAAFA Society, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, April 13, 2014.
• “Freedom Riders,” Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming, February 24, 2014.
• “American Women in the American Revolution,” Daughters of the American Revolution, Laramie County Public Library, Cheyenne, Wyoming, July 20, 2013.
• “Teaching Wyoming History,” Laramie Lyceum, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, April 11, 2011.

• Phi Alpha Theta volunteer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2021 – 2022
• Graduate & Professional Student Association Mentor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2021
• Online Teaching Essentials for Graduate Assistants, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2020
• Phi Theta Kappa Advisor, Laramie County Community College, 2015 – 19
• Internship Coordinator, Laramie County Community College in association with the Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, Wyoming Governors' Mansion, and Warren ICBM & Heritage Museum, 2010-19
• Pathways Advising Team, Laramie County Community College, 2018
• Pathways Student Experiences Team, Laramie County Community College, 2018
• Food Pantry Committee, Laramie County Community College, 2018
• Cultural Committee Member, Laramie County Community College, 2010 - 2016
• Faculty Senate, School of Math and Sciences, Laramie County Community College, 2014 - 16
• Faculty Advising Committee, Laramie County Community College, 2014 – 15
• College Council Faculty Senate Representative, Laramie County Community College, 2014 – 15
• Math and Sciences Scholarship Team Member, Laramie County Community College, 2014
• Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle, Grant Coordinator and Team Leader, Laramie County Community College, 2013-14
• Learning Commons Committee Chair, Laramie County Community College, 2012 – 13
• Writing Center Volunteer, Laramie County Community College, 2013 – 14
• National Endowment of the Humanities Landmark Participant: War of 1812, Toledo, Ohio, 2012
• National Endowment of the Humanities Landmark Participant: Revolution to Republic, Philadelphia, 2011

• Nuwu Art Collective Volunteer, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2022-23
• Youth Powwow for the Planet, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2022 and 2023
• UNLV Public History Volunteer for “Payday on Block 16,” Las Vegas, Nevada, 2022
• The LGBTQ Center of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2021 Frontier Days' Old West Museum Volunteer, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 2016 – 19
• Cheyenne Day of Giving, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 2016 – 19
• Meals on Wheels, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 2018 – 19
• Family Promise, Box City for the Homeless, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 2017 – 18
• Friday Food Bags, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 2017 Jonathan Daniels Society, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 2007 – 09
• Latino America Service Project in Peru, Cusco, Peru, 2007
• Habitat for Humanity, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 2006 and 2017
• Laramie Soup Kitchen Volunteer, Laramie, Wyoming, 2002
• Leukemia Society Volunteer, Team in Training, Austin, Texas, 1998 – 99
• Emergency Medical Service in Texas, Leakey, Texas, 1998

• Western History Association
• Phi Alpha Theta
• Organization of American Historians
• American Society for Environmental History