Northern Illinois University
Department of History
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Current Research 

My new book, Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization, examines the ways in which indigenous animals acted as obstacles to colonization in English America by complicating Anglo-American assertions of possessions. This study is a revision of my doctoral dissertation, "The Liberty of Killing a Deer: Histories of Wildlife Use and Political Ecology in Early America."

Major Publications

• Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
  • Interview on Ben Frankin's World podcast
• "'Our Lady Sportsmen': Gender, Class, and Conservation in Sport Hunting Magazines, 1873-1920," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4 (October 2005): 355-380.
• "'I Just Like to Kill Things': Women, Men, and the Gender of Sport Hunting in the United States, 1940-1973," Gender & History 17 (April 2005): 185-209.

Courses Taught

• HIST 171 The World Since 1500
• HIST 260 American History to 1865
• HIST 261 American History since 1865
• HIST 359  History of Illinois
• HIST 369 Women in US History
• HIST 370  Introduction to American Indian History