Tamara Levi

Tamara Levi serves as Professor of History in the Department of History and Foreign Languages at Jacksonville State University's College of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences, where she teaches Colonial America, Jefferson and Jackson, American Indian History, and American History survey courses.

Her academic credentials include:

• B.A. in History from Lees-McRae College (1997)
• M.A. from Appalachian State University (1999)
• Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2006)

Dr. Levi's research centers on American Indian History, the American West, and Comparative Indigenous History, with emphasis on Indigenous resistance strategies against colonial systems. Her work examines cultural survival mechanisms and power dynamics in settler-colonial contexts across national boundaries.

Her 2016 monograph exemplifies this comparative methodology by analyzing food rations as instruments of control and resistance among Indigenous communities in both the United States and South Australia. This publication bridges colonial history, food studies, and Indigenous agency within broader historical and anthropological frameworks.