Beekman Chair of Northwest and Pacific History and Professor of History and Ethnic Studies

Education:
BA, Montana State University, 1977;
MA, Sarah Lawrence College, 1980;
PhD, Stanford University, 1986

Research Interests:
History of race, gender, and sexuality and the U.S. West

Selected Publications:
What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in January 2009)

"Democracy, Citizenship, and Race: The U.S. West in the 20th Century," in Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century, edited by Sitkoff (2001)

"Sex, Gender, and Same-Sex Marriage," in Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice, edited by the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies (2000)

Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 (Oxford University Press, 1990).