Rate My Professor Patrick Lozar

Patrick Lozar is an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Montana. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Washington (2019), an MA in History from the University of Oregon (2013), and a BA in History from Montana State University (2009). An enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes from the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, Lozar taught high school social studies on his reservation prior to graduate studies. His academic career includes positions as faculty in the Native American Studies Department at Salish Kootenai College and Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria from 2019 to 2022.

Lozar's research focuses on Indigenous peoples in the interior Pacific Northwest and their responses to nation-state institutions, particularly the imposition of the U.S.-Canada border across the Columbia Plateau from the 1850s to the 1920s. His dissertation, titled “Behind and Beyond the Line: Indigenous Communities, International Borders, and Native Identities on the Columbia Plateau, 1850s-1920s,” examines how Native group identities persisted and evolved amid these changes. Key publications include “My Home Is on Both Sides: Indigenous Communities and the US-Canadian Border on the Columbia Plateau, 1880s–1910s” in Ethnohistory (2018), “‘They do not, therefor, regard the boundary line as separating them’: The Ktunaxa Nation and the Enforcement of the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1887” in Montana The Magazine of Western History (2020), and book reviews in Canadian Historical Review (2023) and Montana (2024). He has received awards such as the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (2018-2019), Phillips Fund for Native American Research (2017), and Thomas M. Power Prize for Outstanding Teaching Assistant (2016). At the University of Montana, Lozar teaches courses including NASX 105: Introduction to Native American Studies, NASX 360: Native Americans in Cinema, NASX 475: Tribal Sovereignty, and HSTA 365: Native American History from 1830.