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Faculty > Boyd Cothran
 Boyd Cothran is a historian whose primary interests are in cultural studies and comparative indigenous studies. His recently completed interdisciplinary dissertation titled Marketplaces of Remembering: Violence, Colonialism, and American Innocence in the Making of the Modoc War examines the history of nineteenth century U.S.-Indian violence in the American west. Investigating Ihow Natives and non-Natives alike transformed episodes of violence and ethnic cleansing into a redemptive narrative of American innocence, it interrogates the relationship between memories and the markets in which they circulate and locates American capitalism and colonialism at the center of our understanding of Indigenous history. He has published articles in the International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies and American Indian Quarterly and he has been a visiting scholar at the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders at Yale University and the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Boyd is currently at work on a book about the influences of capitalism on historical memories of U.S.-Indian violence in the American West. He recently appeared in a PBS Documentary on the Modoc War, California so-called Last Indian War – available here
www.opb.org/programs/oregonexperience/programs/player/37-The-Modoc-War
Tel: +1 651-696-6176
Email: bcothran@macalester.edu
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