Academic Background: Ph.D., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999; M.A., History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994; B.A., History, Northwestern University, 1990.
Research Interests: Native American history, urban Indian communities, and federal Indian policy.
Appointments: Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2015–present.
Publications: Author of Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago (University of Nebraska Press, 2019).
Additional Contributions: Contributor to The Conversation on Native American labor history (2020).