Rate Professor Rosalyn LaPier

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D., History, University of Montana, 1999; M.A., History, University of Montana, 1995; B.A., Physics, Colorado College, 1989.

Research Interests: Native American history, environmental history, and Indigenous religious traditions, with a focus on the Blackfeet Nation and the intersection of culture and ecology.

Appointments: Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2020–present; Research Associate, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, 2015–present.

Awards: American Philosophical Society Fellowship, 2018; Montana Historical Society Award for Contributions to Public History, 2017.

Publications: Author of Invisible Reality: Storytellers, Storytakers, and the Supernatural World of the Blackfeet (University of Nebraska Press, 2017); contributor to The Conversation on Native American boarding schools and cultural genocide (2021).

Additional Contributions: Public talks on Indigenous environmental knowledge at TEDx events; consultant for PBS documentaries on Native American history.