Rate My Professor Patrick Lozar

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.