Department of American Studies

Fay Botham

Visiting Assistant Professor of American Indian & Native Studies / American Studies
PhD Claremont Graduate University (2005, Religion)
709 Jefferson Building
(319) 335-1973
fay-botham@uiowa.edu

Research Interests

American environmental history; Native American history; Native American epistemologies of nature and the "sacred;" historical American Christianities and beliefs about race, gender, sexuality and the natural world; religion and colonialism; and the historical intersections between Christianity and violence.

Curriculum Vitae

Courses Taught

32:141 Varieties of American Religion

45:25 Diversity and American Identities

45:150 Topics in American Studies
-Race, Religion and the American Wilderness

45:XXX Environment and Sustainability in American History

149:049 Introduction to American Indian and Native Studies

149:065 Sex, Gender and Nature in the Cultures of Native America

149:101 American Indian and Native Studies Seminar

149:164 American Indian/First Nations Women