Jeff Ostler is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History. Along with associate professor Vera Keller, he is a recipient of the 2019 Presidential Fellow in Humanistic Studies award.

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About Jeff Ostler

Jeff Ostler specializes in the history of the American West, with a particular focus on American Indian history. His recent book, Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas (Yale University Press, 2019), takes a detailed look at the genocidal removal of Native people during U.S. expansion from the 1750s to the start of the Civil War.