Steve Amerman

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY

 

Office:  EN C215D

Phone: 203-392-5603

email: amermans1@southernct.edu

 

EDUCATION

PhD, Arizona State University, 2002

MA, Utah State University, 1996

BA, Duke University, 1992

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Book, Urban Indians in Phoenix Schools, 1940-2000 (University of Nebraska Press, 2010).

Article, "'I Should Not be Wearing a Pilgrim Hat': Making an Indian Place in Urban Schools, 1945-1975" American Indian Culture and Research Journal. 31 no. 1 (2007): 39-62.

Article, "'Let's Get in and Fight!': American Indian Political Activism in Urban Public School System, 1973" American Indian Quarterly 27. (Summer?Fall 2003): 607-638.

Article, "'This is Our Land': The White Mountain Apache Trophy Elk Hunt and Tribal Sovereignty" Journal of Arizona History 43 (Summer 2002): 133-152.

Book Reviews in Journal of American Ethnic History, Jounral of the West, Connecticut History, and Western Historical Quarterly.

 

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of American Indians in Connecticut and southern New England in the 20th Century.

 

COURSES

HIS 110: American History to 1877

HIS 111: American History since 1877

HIS 257: American Indian History, to 1850 (usually offered every Fall)

HIS 258: American Indian History, since 1850 (usually offered every Spring)

HIS 358: American Frontiers

HIS 359: American Environmental History

HIS 515: The American Overland Trail Experience, 1840-1860 (graduate seminar)

HIS 569: American Indian History (graduate seminar)