Rob Harper BIO Rob Harper joined the History Department in 2008. His research and teaching interests include early America, American Indian history, North American borderlands, the early modern Atlantic world, and the comparative study of settler colonialism, violence, and state formation. He co-teaches Native American Forestry with Professor Mike Demchik of the College of Natural Resources. On campus, Harper advises the UWSP History Club. He’s co-advisor of the Curling Association of UWSP. Professor Harper is also a member of the UWSP Academic Representation Council (UW-SPARC). PUBLICATIONS Harper, Rob. “Unsettling the West: Violence and State Building in the Ohio Valley.” University ofPennsylvania Press, 2018. https://radix.www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15794.html PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association American Society for Ethnohistory History SoTL: An International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in History Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Organization of American Historians Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Western History Association QUOTE “The past is never dead. It isn’t even past.” —William Faulkner, 1951 Professor of HistoryNative American Studies Coordinator Office: CCC 469 Phone: 715-346-2334 Email: rharper@uwsp.edu Education Ph.D. - American History University of Wisconsin-Madison M.A. - History University of Wisconsin-Madison B.A. - History Oberlin College Courses Colonial America Native American Forestry Native American History United States to 1877 Topics in History: Wisconsin Indians: History, Treaties, Sovereignty