Jeffrey Ostler

Office: 301 McKenzie Hall
Phone:(541) 346-1265
E-mail: jostler@oregon.uoregon.edu

Biographical Information

Professor specializing in American West
B.A. 1979, University of Utah
M.A. 1984, University of Oregon
Ph.D 1990, University of Iowa
With the U of O since 1990

Major Publications

Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 (University Press of Kansas, 1993)
"The Rhetoric of Conspiracy and the Formation of Populism in Kansas," Agricultural History (1995)
The Plains Sioux and U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (Cambridge University Press, 2004)

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors

N.E.H. Fellowship, 1994-1995


Current Research and Writing

"Locating Genocide in Nineteenth Century U. S. History"
"The Lakotas and the Black Hills" (to be published by Viking Penguin)

Recent Teaching

History of the American West
Environmental History
Plains Indians History
World History