Rate My Professor Nicolas Rosenthal

Rosenthal is the author of Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2012 as part of the First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies series. His second monograph, Painting Native America, was published by the University of Nebraska Press. He has published peer-reviewed articles including “Native Americans and Cities” in American History: Oxford Research Encyclopedias (2015), “Representing Indians: Native American Actors on Hollywood’s Frontier” in the Western Historical Quarterly (2005), which won the Bert M. Fireman Prize, and “Repositioning Indianness: Native American Organizations in Portland, Oregon, 1959-1975” in the Pacific Historical Review (2002), recipient of the W. Turrentine Jackson Article Prize. Additional contributions include book chapters such as “At the Center of Indian Country: Native Americans and California in the Twentieth Century” (2008), encyclopedia entries, and over a dozen book reviews in leading journals. Rosenthal has received numerous awards and fellowships, such as the John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-Campus Faculty Research Award (2013-14), Regional Residency Fellowship from the National Archives (2013-14), First Peoples Publishing Initiative Grant (2010), Kevin Starr Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005-06), Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Ethnic Studies from UCLA (2003-2004), Short-Term Fellowship from the Newberry Library (2003-2004), and Phillips Fund Grant from the American Philosophical Society (2003-2004). His scholarship illuminates the experiences of Native Americans in urban environments and their cultural adaptations in the twentieth century.