I am a historian of the North American West, Transnational Borderlands, Indigenous peoples, Comparative Genocide, Public History, and Western Wilderness and the Environment. Currently, I am Associate Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Professor in the Department of History at Brigham Young University. For the 2020-2022 academic years I am the Marjorie Pay Hinckley Young Scholar in the BYU FHSS College. Previously, I held positions as an Historian and Documentary Editor for the Joseph Smith Papers at the LDS Church History Department, a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, and adjunct professor at Weber State University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Nebraska Wesleyan University. I earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in History (2010, 2006) from Continue readingBio