Education
PhD
Northern Arizona University. Politics & International Affairs.
December 2017
Dissertation Title: Tools Of Ethnocide: Assimilation And Benevolence In Native American Boarding Schools.
Areas of Concentration: international relations, genocide studies, crimes against humanity, indigenous topics.
MA
Northern Arizona University. Political Science.
December 2007
BA
Equivalent.
Georg August Universität Göttingen, Germany. North American Studies.
July 2004
Grants and Awards
2017
Northern Arizona University, Office of the Vice President for Research. Support for Graduate Students award: $1500 for hiring of an undergraduate research assistant for my research.
2017
Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics & International Affairs. Graduate Student Research Award: $1000 for travel for my research.
2017
Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics & International Affairs, Dean of Social & Behavioral Sciences, and Graduate Student Government: $925 for conference travel.
2016
Northern Arizona University, Office of the Vice President for Research. Support for Graduate Students award: $1500 for travel to National Archives locations for my research.
2016
Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics & International Affairs, Dean of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Vice-President for Research, and Graduate Student Government: $875 for conference travel.
2015
Arizona State University scholarship: Attendance at the symposium Colonial Conquest in the Nazi East and the American West: Value and Limits of Comparative Approaches. Topics focused on genocide and indigenous groups and directly related to my dissertation.
Martin-Springer Institute at Northern Arizona University.
2015
Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics & International Affairs, Dean of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Vice-President for Research, and Graduate Student Government: $850 for conference travel.
2015
K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award: Finalist. Top 25, nationally.
2014
Northern Arizona University, Department of Politics & International Affairs, Dean of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Vice-President for Research, and Graduate Student Government: $718 for conference travel.
2014
Northern Arizona University, Classified Staff Advisory Council: $150 book scholarship.
2013
Northern Arizona University, Classified Staff Advisory Council: $75 book scholarship.
Professional Memberships
Northeastern Political Science Association. 2017-2019.
The American Society of Criminology. 2017.
Western Political Science Association. 2014 – 2017.
Western Social Science Association. 2015 – 2016.
Full CV Upon Request.