Victoria Funk is a Ph.D. student in U.S. History at OU and is a Graduate Teaching Assistant for the History 1483 course. Her current research focuses on European-Indigenous relations in North America, particularly Virginia, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her research interests include the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Virginia, religion, politics, and assimilation policies. She holds a BA in History from the College of William and Mary and her MA in History from Lynchburg College.