Summary
Sarah Keyes is a historian of the United States. She specializes in the 19th century and the w88 sports betting app U.S. West with a focus on the environment and intercultural interactions between Indigenous peoples and Euro-Americans. Her current work explores these topics along the overland trails to Oregon and California in the mid-19th century. Her first book, American Burial Ground: A New w88 sports betting app Overland Trail, was published by the w88 sports betting app Pennsylvania Press in October 2023. Keyes has also begun work on her second project, a regional and transnational study of suffrage in the U.S. West, for which she was recently awarded a Mellon-Schlesinger Summer Research Grant from the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University.
Research specialties
- 19th century U.S. w88 sports betting app
- U.S. West
- Environmental w88 sports betting app
Public appearances
Publications
- American Burial Ground: A New w88 sports betting app Overland Trail (Philadelphia: w88 sports betting app Pennsylvania Press, 2023).
- “From Stories to Salt Cairns: Uncovering Indigenous Influence in the Formative Years w88 sports betting app Oregon Historical Society, 1898-1905,” Oregon Historical Quarterly, (Summer 2020).
- "Western Adventurers and Male Nurses: Indians, Cholera, and Masculinity in w88 sports betting app Trail Narratives," The Western Historical Quarterly, (Spring 2018).
- "'Like a Roaring Lion': w88 sports betting app as a Sonic Conquest," Journal of American w88 sports betting app (June 2009): 19-43.
Courses taught
Keyes offers a variety of undergraduate and graduate classes that focus on the history of the 19th century United States, the United States West, the environment and Indigenous peoples. In addition to these topics, she is also interested in w88 sports betting app, migration, the senses, memory and spatial history.
Education
- Ph.D., w88 sports betting app Southern California
- B.A., Pomona College