JOINED THE DEPARTMENT

2023

BIO

Anne Gregory (Muscogee/Chickasaw) 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 is a scholar of United States, Native American, legal, and digital histories, and her research centers around the legal status of incompetents, wards, and guardians in Indian Territory and Oklahoma during allotment. Her advisor is Katrina Jagodinsky.

CONFERENCES

• “Chunkey, Cahokia, and Indigenous Conflict Resolution,” Oregon Mediation Association Annual Conference, November 4, 2020.
• “Exercising Indigenous Determination,” The Resilience of Indigenous Nationhood, Centre for Indigenous Research and Community-Led Engagement, University of Victoria, April 7, 2021.
• “Contested Commitments,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, May 14, 2021.
• “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.
• “The Indian Territory and Indigenous Citizenship,” The Indian Citizenship Act at 100: Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Futures, June 20, 2024.
• “Parceling Indigeneity: Identity, Race and Polity in Oklahoma’s Allotment Era,” Western History Association Annual Conference, October 26, 2024.

PUBLICATIONS

• “Sovereignty and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Today and in History,” Honoring Tribal Legacies, University of Oregon, 2021.
• “Competency, Allotment, and Canton Asylum: The Case of a Muscogee Woman,” Disability Studies Quarterly 41:4, 2022.
• “Guardianship in Oklahoma Courts: Wardship Status in the Aftermath of the Snyder Act, 1896-1945,” Indigenous Futures: The Afterlives of the Indian Citizenship Act, University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming.
• “Dispossession: Congressional Acts and Allotment, 1887-1906,” And Justice for All, US Law & Race Initiative Open Educational Resource, 2025, forthcoming.