Humanities and Social Sciences

History Program

Staff Profiles

Teaching: Indigenous History primarily of the Americas; Mexican History, historical justice in the modern world.

Research Interests: Indigenous History primarily of the Americas, Latin American History with a special emphasis on Mexico and Guatemala, comparative history, forced migration, land and identity.

Projects in Progress:
‘The Roots of Identity’ (Kluge Fellowship at the US Library of Congress), which investigates the relationship between Native societies of the Americas and the land they traditionally lived on and considers how changes in land tenure affected Native culture and identity.
The collection of essays: Removals – Forced Migration in the Modern World (co-editor Richard Bessel), which explores in comparative perspective forced mass migrations as a modern phenomenon.

Selected Publications:
The State, Removal and Indigenous Peoples in the United States and Mexico, c. 1620-2000, Routledge, 2007.
‘Identity, Sovereignty and Power: the Cherokee-Delaware Agreement of 1867, Past and Present’, American Indian Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 3, 2002.
‘Delaware Identity in the Cherokee Nation’, Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, 2003.
‘Two Stories – Yaqui Resistance in Sonora and Yucatán’, in Nikolaus Böttcher and Bernd Hausberger (eds.), Poder y resistencia en la historia de América Latina, Berlin/Frankfurt: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut/Vervuert, 2005.
‘Kampf um indigene Souveränität – Die Auslagerung politischer Kommunikation in pseudo-legale Kommunikationsräume am Beispiel der Delawaren’, in Christian Büschges and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka (eds.), Ethnisierung und De-Ethnisierung des Politischen, Campus Verlag, 2007.
‘No Place for the Delawares? – Removal and Loss of Federal Recognition’, in Joy Porter (ed.), Place in Native American History, Literature and Culture, Peter Lang, 2007.