Arrell Morgan Gibson Award from the Western History Association for best article of the year in American Indian history, 2005, for "Maternal Colonialism.".Armitage-Jameson Prize for best book in western women’s history, 2009, for White Mother to a Dark Race.Athearn Book Award for best book on 20th-Century American West, 2010, for White Mother to a Dark Race. Bancroft Prize, Columbia University, 2010, for White Mother to a Dark Race.Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions, Cambridge University, 2015-16.HIST/GPSP 991 Graduate Readings Seminar in History of the North American West SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS HIST/WMNS 951 Graduate Comparative World History Seminar on Women, Gender & Empire HIST/WMNS 204 Women & Gender in US History
The Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project seeks to contribute to reconciliation and healing by making the history of the Genoa Indian Boarding School more accessible to the families of those who attended and by raising public awareness about Indian boarding schools.who are engaged in honestly confronting painful and traumatic histories, promoting meaningful and respectful dialogue between Natives and non-Natives, and creating pathways to reconciliation. Reconciliation Rising is a multimedia project that showcases the lives and work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in the U.S.My current projects focus on both examining and promoting reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples:
This work also focuses on how Indigenous women mobilized transnationally to reclaim the care of their children. My more recent scholarship examines how government authorities in the U.S., Australia, and Canada continued to remove Indigenous children after World War II through foster care and adoptive placements in non-Indigenous families. Many of my books and articles concern government policies from 1880-1940 that demanded that Indigenous children be separated from their families and sent to distant boarding schools and other institutions. For the last twenty years I have studied Indigenous child removal.
I focus on women and gender as well as children and family. I study the history of the American West in comparison with Australia and Canada.