Professor of History and Ethnic Studies

Education:
BA, History, University of Utah, 1979;
MA, History, University of Oregon, 1984;
PhD, History, University of Iowa, 1990

Research Interests:
History of the American West

Selected Publications:
The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

"The Rhetoric of Conspiracy and the Formation of Populism in Kansas," Agricultural History (1995)

Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 (University Press of Kansas, 1993)

Works in Progress:
"Locating Genocide in Nineteenth Century U. S. History"

"The Lakotas and the Black Hills" (to be published by Viking Penguin)