PhD candidate, History 

My specialty is in the American West, specifically federal Indian policy and inter-tribal relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My most recent research compares individual perspectives on the formation of federal Indian policy and termination policy during the Truman administration. Research during my Masters program at UNL focused on cooperation of the Omaha and Ponca tribes during the Ponca removal to Indian Territory and prior to the Standing Bear Trial of 1879. I also studied the Omaha language and worked as a research assistant for the Omaha dictionary project under the tutelage of Dr. Mark Awakuni-Swetland in the UNL anthropology department. My teaching assistantships at UNL have included the following courses: History of Ancient Greece, Modern Latin American History, European Middle Ages History, United States History Since 1877, and American Indian History. I have worked as a journalist in South Dakota and Wyoming and studied American history as an advisee of Gabor Boritt at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

Project: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains

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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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