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Mailing address:
Loyola Marymount University
University Hall, One LMU Dr.
Dept. of History, Suite 3500
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Email: nicolas.rosenthal@lmu.edu
I am the Chair and a Professor in the Department of History at Loyola Marymount University. I am also the 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, the history of the North American West, and 20th Century United States history.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., History: University of California, Los Angeles, June 2005
M.A., History: University of Oregon, June 2000
B.A., History: University of Oregon, December 1997 (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
2021-Present, Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University
Spring 2024, Visiting Professor of American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
2012-2021, Associate Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University
2014-15, Visiting Associate Researcher in American Indian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
2006-12, Assistant Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University
2005-06, Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Humanities Research Institute (Irvine, Calif.)
My new book is on Indigenous artists in the 20th century and is now available from the University of Nebraska Press.
Click here for a story about this project from the LMU Newsroom!
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.
