Cori Simon

Cori Simon is an Assistant Professor of U.S. History, specializing in Native North America, the U.S. West, race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity, and the nineteenth century. She is currently working on a book manuscript on the history of Indian Territory, which emerged in the nineteenth century as a contested space where a stunning diversity of Native and non-Native residents and newcomers imagined myriad possibilities for its future. Beginning with Indian Territory’s creation as a distinct geopolitical space and approaching it as a site of Native sovereignty, she focuses on moments when the territory’s fate came into question, offering new insight into what it meant for the diverse peoples who lived there and for Native peoples’ place within the history of the nineteenth-century U.S. She received a PhD and MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BA from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Professor Simon teaches courses on Native American History, the U.S. West, the nineteenth century, and Oklahoma History.