Project Team

Hannah E. Robinson was the lead project archivist. She primarily worked on the Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming and Gary W. Royer Collection on Gaming. She starting working at UNLV Special Collections & Archives in 2014 as an intern, and she became a full-time archivist after finishing her graduate studies at UNLV. She has an MA in History from UNLV as well as a BA from Washington State University in History and Anthropology. She specializes in the history of the American West, particularly in the nineteenth century. Her research interests include the histories of US borderlands, history of popular culture, and public history.

Lee Hanover was a graduate student archival processing assistant who primarily worked on the Katherine A. Spilde Papers on Native American Gaming. He was a second-year MA student in UNLV's History Department. He received his BA in History from UNLV in 2016. His Master's thesis centered on Paiute wage-work as reinforcing community, resisting US settler-colonialism, and providing a means to survive in late-nineteenth century California. Lee was also part of UNLV’s Public History program, where he served as the Head of Research for UNLV’s collaborative public history project Ready to Roar.

Lindsay Oden was a processing archivist on the project and he primarily worked on the Eugene Martin Christiansen Papers. He began working at UNLV Special Collections & Archives as an intern in 2014, and worked his way up to full-time archivist after graduating from UNLV. He has an MA in History from UNLV as well as a BA in History and a BA in Political Science from the University of Idaho. He specializes in the history of American culture, particularly in the twentieth century. His research interests include the histories of marginalized peoples, history of the American West, and social history.

Hana Gutierrez was an undergraduate student archival processing assistant. She worked on all four America's Great Gamble collections and was the lead processor for the Harrah's Entertainment Corporate Archives. She began working at UNLV Special Collections & Archives in 2014 as an intern, and continued to work as a student archival processing assistant while finishing her undergraduate studies in psychology and anthropology at UNLV.