JOINED THE DEPARTMENT

2023

BIO

Anne Gregory is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She received her M.S. in Conflict and Dispute Resolution from the University of Oregon School of Law in 2020, and a B.A. in History from the University of Oregon in 2017. She studies United States and Native American legal histories, and her research investigates incompetency and wardship during allotment. Her advisor is Katrina Jagodinsky.

CONFERENCES

• “‘Legal Symbols of Racial Ascription’: Racial Identity for Wards on the Dawes Rolls,” “Parceling Indigeneity: Identity, Race and Polity in Oklahoma’s Allotment Era,” Western History Association Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, October 26, 2024.
• “Guardianship in Oklahoma Courts, 1895-1945: Wardship Status in the Aftermath of the Snyder Act,” “The Indian Territory and Indigenous Citizenship,” The Indian Citizenship Act at 100: Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Futures, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Bordeaux, France, June 19-21, 2024.
• “Competency, Allotment, and Canton Asylum: The Case of a Muscogee Woman,” “Indian Asylums, Repatriation, and Boarding Schools,” Reckoning and Reconciliation on the Great Plains Symposium, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, September 15, 2022.
• “Sovereignty and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Today and in History,” “Exercising Indigenous Determination,” The Resilience of Indigenous Nationhood, Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, April 7, 2021.
• “Competency, Allotment, and Canton Asylum: The Case of a Muscogee Woman,” “Contested Commitments,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, May 14, 2021.
• “Chunkey, Cahokia, and Indigenous Conflict Resolution,” Oregon Mediation Association Annual Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR, November 4, 2020.

DISCUSSANT

• “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Roundtable, US Law & Race Initiative Webinar Series, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, March 27, 2024.

PUBLICATIONS

• “Citizenship and Probate in Indian Territory Courts: In re Poff’s Guardianship,” Indigenous Futures: The Afterlives of the Indian Citizenship Act, University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming.
• “Competency, Allotment, and Canton Asylum: The Case of a Muscogee Woman,” Disability Studies Quarterly 41:4, 2022.
• “Sovereignty and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Today and in History,” Honoring Tribal Legacies, University of Oregon, 2020.