Jean O'Brien

Publications

• Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790. Cambridge University Press, O'Brien, Jean, 1997.
• Divorced from the Land: Accommodation Strategies of Indian Women in 18th Century New England: O'Brien, Jean, Gender, Kinship, and Power, Routledge, 1996.
• "Why Here? Scholarly Locations for American Indian Studies": American Quarterly, O'Brien, Jean, 2003.
• Why You Can't Teach U.S. History without Indians. University of North Carolina Press, O'Brien, Jean, 2015.
• What is a Monument to Massasoit Doing in Kansas City? The Memory Work of Monuments and Place in Public Displays of History: O'Brien, Jean, Ethnohistory, 61, 635-53, 2014.
• Recognition and Rebuilding: Routledge, O'Brien, Jean, The World of the Indigenous Americas, 2014.
• Building a Professional Infrastructure for Critical Indigenous Studies: A History and Prospectus for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association: O'Brien, Jean, Critical Indigenous Studies in the First World, 2015.
• "'Vanishing' Indians in Nineteenth-Century New England: Local Historians' Erasure of Still-Present Indian People": Sergei Kan and Pauline Turner Stong, eds., New Perspectives on Native North America, O'Brien, Jean, 2006.
• "'Our old and valuable liberty': A Natick Indian Petition in Defense of their Fishing Rights, 1748". Kristina Bross and Hilary Wyss, eds., Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology, O'Brien, Jean, 2008.
• Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies. Chris Andersen, Routledge, O'Brien, Jean, 2017.
• Memory and Mobility: Grandma's Mahnomen, White Earth: O'Brien, Jean, Ethnohistory, 64, 345-77, 2017.
• Tracing Settler Colonialism's Eliminatory Logic in Patrick Wolfe's Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race: O'Brien, Jean, American Quarterly, 69, 249-55, 2017.
• Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit. Lisa Blee, University of North Carolina Press, O'Brien, Jean, 2019.
• Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England. University of Minnesota Press, O'Brien, Jean, 2010.
• Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles and Indigenous Rights in the United States: A Sourcebook. University of North Carolina Press, O'Brien, Jean, April 2013.

Activities

Awards

• McKnight Land Grant Professorship, 1992
• American Association of University Women's Recognition Award for Emerging Scholars, 1996
• Sara Evans Faculty Woman Scholar/Leader Award in the Humanities, Arts, and Sciences, 2014
• University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Award, 2014
• Board of Trustees, Newberry Library, 2018
• Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, 2006
• Member, American Antiquarian Society, 2000
• Member, Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, 2006
• American Indian History, Lifetime Achievement Award, Western History Association, 2014
• Best Subsequent Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association for Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Awarded ...
• McKnight Distinguished University Professor, 2015
• College of Liberal Arts Dean's Medal, University of Minnesota, 2018
• Elected Member, Society of American Historians, 2016
• Best New Journal Award, Council of Editors of Learned Journals, for Native American and Indigenous Studies, 2016

Courses Taught

• HIST 3001: Public History
• HIST/AMIN 3872: American Indian History, 1830-Present
• HIST 1903: Memory, Commemoration, and Monuments in the U.S.
• HIST/AMIN 5890: Readings in American Indian and Indigenous Studies