this is me
I am an author and historian, writing about Native California, Indigenous sovereignty, settler colonialism, and the American West. I have a deep interest in aesthetics, critical cartography, and the visual design of information. I teach in the history department at Guilford College.
In what seems like a previous life, I taught high school social studies for a number of years with the L.A. Unified School District.
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NATIONAL PARKS/ NATIVE LAND
In May 2024, my partner and I led a group of eleven Guilford College students on a nine-day trip to five national parks in California as part of the three-week study away course called National Parks/Native Land. We visited Alcatraz Island, Muir Woods, Point Reyes National Seashore, Lassen Volcanic National Park, and Yosemite, among other locations. To learn more about our trip, see the book we made here.
Teaching
Department of History, Occidental College, Los Angeles, California
Ray Allen Billington Visiting Professor, August 2024 – May 2025
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Department of History, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina,
Professor, May 2021 – present
Associate Professor, May 2014 – May 2021
Assistant Professor, August 2008 – May 2014
Instructor, August 2007 – August 2008
Regular Teaching Rotation:
Settler Colonialism & Indigenous Sovereignty
Legacies of History: The Case of Native California.
Indians in American History
American Frontiers
American Rivers
Urban Environmental History
Imperialism and Progressivism
Civil War and Reconstruction
U.S. History to 1877
U.S. History since 1877
Modern Latin America
Colonial Latin America
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Department of History, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Instructor, 2003–May 2007
Graduate teaching assistant, Fall 2001–Spring 2003
John H. Francis Polytechnic High School, Los Angeles, California
Social Studies/English teacher, Fall 1997–Summer 2001