Angela Parker

Associate Professor

Enrolled Member, Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara)

Email: aparker5@unm.edu
Office: 2060

Education:

Ph.D., History, University of Michigan, 2011 B.A., History, Stanford University, 2001

Research Interests:

Native American and Indigenous History; Twentieth-Century United States History; American West; Indigenous Sovereignty; Federal Indian Policy and Law; Indigenous Politics and Activism; Energy, Oil, and Natural Resources; Settler Colonialism; Citizenship; Gender and Sexuality, 

Research Statement:

My current book project, Petrosovereignty: Native American Oil Politics and Activism in the Long Twentieth Century, examines the relationship between oil extraction, tribal sovereignty, and Indigenous political activism across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Recent/Select Publications:

Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold. University of Oklahoma Press, 2024.

Courses:

HIST 396: Twentieth-Century Native American History
HIST 396: Twentieth-Century U.S. LGBTQ History
HIST 683: Native Nations and the Making of Modern America