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Research
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.
Jacki’s research interests have expanded to accommodate her interests in transnational and borderlands approaches to history. She holds a CIC/AIS faculty fellowship at the Newberry Library for the 2007-2008 academic year where she is beginning an exploration of ethnic and state boundaries, as well as tribal relations with the state. The current project will allow her to broaden her knowledge about state indigenous policies and law, while maintaining a focus on local Native social, economic, and political formations.
Jacki 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. Jacki Rand received her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1998.
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