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Research
Professor Jacki Rand joined the History Department in 1998 with a joint appointment in American Indian and Native Studies. Jacki's field of research is the history of Native North America, state Indian policy, and law. Her book Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State ( University of Nebraska Press) examines prevailing Kiowa community social values between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth-century, looking at the how the Kiowa people actively responded to US government efforts to control them. It focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century reservation economy and society, material culture, and US Indian policy and law.
Professor Rand was one of the co-founders of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (the academic version of the Big Ten) American Indian Studies Consortium (CIC AIS) and served on the Executive Committee from 2000-2006. She organized a CIC AIS graduate research conference in 1999 at the University of Iowa. The 10th conference is being hosted by the University of Illinois in April 2009.
Professor Rand received her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1998. She previously worked at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and was also the Director of the Jacobson Foundation in Norman, Oklahoma. She has been a consultant to the Newberry Library's "Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country" exhibit in Chicago, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation American Indian Studies Consortium for five years.
Professor Rand’s current research focuses on early 18th century relations among the French colonizers, Choctaws and Chickasaws in the southeast. She has initiated a project to collect oral histories about sexual violence against Native women. Rand divides her time between Iowa City, Iowa and her house in Ada, Oklahoma.
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