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Catherine J. Lavender is an Associate Professor in the History Department at the College of Staten Island (CSI), City University of New York (CUNY). She has served as Director of CSI's American Studies Program since 1998 and teaches in the Macaulay Honors College. Her research focuses on women's and gender history in the American Southwestern Borderlands, examining interactions between Native American communities and European settlers post-1848, as well as literary/ethnographic texts and visual arts in the region.
- Degrees: BA, MA, PhD in History from University of Colorado at Boulder
Her scholarship includes books like Scientists and Storytellers (2006) and The Western Women's Reader (2000). Current projects investigate Great Depression-era violence against female anthropologists and early 20th-century Mescalero Apache spirituality. She has received major grants from NEH, ACLS, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, alongside internal CUNY funding. Lavender also pioneered international virtual classrooms connecting Staten Island with China and Turkey, and is developing study abroad programs in Vietnam.
