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Jean O'Brien-Kehoe

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Curriculum Vitae

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Specialties

  • the vanishing Indian in New England
  • Indians of the Northeast (17th and 18th centuries)
  • ethnohistory
  • U.S. colonial history
  • colonial America
  • race, class, and gender analysis as it pertains to history

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: History, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1990.

Publications

  • Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790. O'Brien-Kehoe, Jean Maria, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Divorced from the Land: Accommodation Strategies of Indian Women in 18th Century New England. O'Brien-Kehoe, Jean Maria, 1996.
  • "Why Here? Scholarly Locations for American Indian Studies". O'Brien-Kehoe, Jean Maria, American Quarterly, 2003.
  • "'Vanishing' Indians in Nineteenth-Century New England: Local Historians' Erasure of Still-Present Indian People". O'Brien-Kehoe, Jean Maria, Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Stong, eds., New Perspectives on Native North America, 2006.
  • "'Our old and valuable liberty': A Natick Indian Petition in Defense of their Fishing Rights, 1748". O'Brien-Kehoe, Jean Maria, Kristina Bross and Hilary Wyss, eds., Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology, Forthcoming, 2007.

Professional Activities

  • National Council: American Studies Association , 2003 - 2006
  • Advisory Board: Five-part series on American Indian history, "We Shall Remain," PBS American Experience , 2005 - 2008
  • Committee on the Press: University of Minnesota Press , 2001 - 2009

Awards

  • McKnight Land Grant Professorship, 1992
  • American Association of University Women's Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars, 1996
  • Member, American Antiquarian Society, 2000
  • Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, 2006
  • Member, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 2006

Courses Taught

  • AmIn 5920 - Topics: American Indian Studies
  • Hist 3872 - American Indian History: 1830 to the Present
  • Hist 5890 - Problems in American Indian History
  • Hist 5910 - Topics in U.S. History
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