I am a Professor in the Department of History at Loyola Marymount University.  I am also President and a Charter Member of Loyola Marymount University's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (Omega of California).

My research & teaching interests include Indigenous history, environmental history, Los Angeles history, California history, the history of the North American West, and 20th Century United States history. 

May 2012 saw the publication of my first book, Reimagining Indian Country: Native American Migration and Identity in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles (The University of North Carolina Press).  It follows the migration of American Indians to cities, the development of urban American Indian life, and the relationships between cities and American Indian reservations. 

Read my Guest Blog at UNC Press.

See my Post at The Page 99 Test.

Read my Interview in LMU Magazine.

Read my Article in LMU Magazine.

My new research project is on Indigenous artists in the 20th century.