Assistant Professor Lisa Blee

American West and Native American history
B-110 Tribble Hall, 758-6995
e-mail: bleelm@wfu.edu

Education:
BA Lewis and Clark College
Ph.D. University of Minnesota

Courses Offering:
HST 108: Americas and the World
HST 254: U.S. West to 1848
HST 255: U.S. West from 1848 to the Present
HST 365: Modern Native American History
HST 367: Public History
FYS 100: The American West in Popular Culture

Professional and Research Interests: Native American history, U.S. West social and environmental history, public history methodologies, public memory and commemoration, historical narratives 

Selected Publications:
“I Came Voluntarily to Work, Sing, and Dance”: Stories from the Eskimo Village at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly Vol. 101 Nos. 3 & 4 (Summer/Fall 2010): 126-37.

“Mount Rainier Narratives and Indian Economies of Place, 1850-1925,” Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Winter 2009): 419-443

Co-author, “Engaging With Public Engagement: Public History and Graduate Pedagogy,” Radical History Review, Issue 102 (Fall 2008): 72-89.

“The 1925 Fort Union Indian Congress: One Event, Multiple Interpretations,” American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Fall 2007): 582-612.

“Completing Lewis and Clark’s Westward March: Exhibiting a History of Empire at the 1905 Portland World’s Fair,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 106, No. 2 (Summer 2005): 232-253.