Laura Tuennerman

Laura Tuennerman is a Professor of History and Director of the American Democracy Project at Pennsylvania Western University. She specializes in U.S., Public, and Women’s History, with a focus on Indigenous peoples, borderlands, and colonial policies. Her research examines transnational Indigenous identities, federal assimilation strategies, and the intersection of gender and colonial governance.

Dr. Tuennerman holds a PhD in History from the University of Minnesota, an MA in History (with a Public History certificate) from the University of Delaware, and a BA in History from the College of Wooster.

Her most recent work explores transnational Indigenous networks in the North American West and Tohono O’odham experiences under U.S.-Mexico border policies. Her publications analyze property rights erosion among Prairie Indians, Seri resistance to conquest narratives, and Washoe tribal responses to the Dawes Act.

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