JOINED THE DEPARTMENT

2023

BIO

Anne Gregory is a third-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 investigates legal resistance by Native American and Afro-Indigenous women, minors, incompetents, and wards during allotment. Her advisor is Katrina Jagodinsky.

CONFERENCES

• “Materiality & Matrilineality,” Poster Session, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, January 8-11, 2026.
• “The Muscogee Dawes Rolls: Allotment, Health, and Care,” “The Roots/Routes of Native Health in Western History: A Roundtable Discussion,” Western History Association Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, October 15-18, 2025.
• “Distorted Pasts: Pioneers, Settlers, and Native Americans in American Memory,” Roundtable, American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, October 8-11, 2025.
• “Power By Other Means,” Chair, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Virtual Conference, June 30, 2025.
• “Indigenous Education Before and After Oklahoma Statehood,” Comment, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Conference, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 26-28, 2025.
• “‘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 23-26, 2024.
• “History & Legacies of Disability Institutionalization in the U.S.” Virtual Working Group, University of Connecticut, July 19 and August 7, 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.
• Killers of the Flower Moon Roundtable, US Law & Race Initiative Webinar Series, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, March 27, 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, 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 Virtual Meeting, June 14, 2021.
• “Chunkey, Cahokia, and Indigenous Conflict Resolution,” Oregon Mediation Association Annual Conference, University of Oregon School of Law, Eugene, OR, November 4, 2020.

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 2026. 
• “Competency, Allotment, and Canton Asylum: The Case of a Muscogee Woman,” Disability Studies Quarterly 41:4, 2021.
• “Sovereignty and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Today and in History,” Honoring Tribal Legacies, University of Oregon, 2020.

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

• 2025 Frank Landis Memorial Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 2025 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Travel Grant
• 2024-25 Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 2024-25 Chancellor’s Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 2024 Sheldon Travel Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 2024 Special Sheldon Grant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 2023-24 Chancellor’s Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
• 2018 Conflict and Dispute Resolution Program Research Award, University of Oregon