Adjunct Professor (Primary Appointment in American Studies)215 Greenlaw
Office Hours: MWF 10:00 - 11:00 am
dcobb@unc.edu
Personal Website
Education
BA Messiah College, 1996
MA University of Wyoming, 1998
PhD, University of Oklahoma, 2003
Research Interests
Daniel M. Cobb joined the Department of American Studies in fall 2010, after serving as a faculty member in the History Department at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and as Assistant Director of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library in Chicago. In 2017-2018, he served as the Fulbright Bicentennial Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland. In the summer of 2019, Cobb was invited to be a Visiting Researcher at the University of Tübingen, in Tübingen, Germany. His research and teaching focuses on American Indian history since 1887, political activism, ethnohistorical methods, ethnobiography, memory, and global Indigenous rights.
Some Notable Publications
- The Great Courses: Native Peoples of North America, 24 30-minute audio and video lectures, in Partnership with the National Museum of the American Indian (Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2016)
- Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics & Protest in Indigenous America since 1887 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015
- American Indians by William T. Hagan, 4th edition, revised and expanded by Daniel M. Cobb (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013)
- Memory Matters: Proceedings from the 2010 Conference Hosted by the Humanities Center, Miami University of Ohio, co-edited with Helen Sheumaker (SUNY Press, 2011)
- Native Activism in Cold War America: The Struggle for Sovereignty (University of Kansas Press, 2008)
- Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900, co-edited with Loretta Fowler (Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press, 2007)
Courses Offered
- AMST/HIST 110—Introduction to the Cultures and Histories of Native North America
- AMST 203—Approaches to American Indian Studies
- AMST/HIST 233—Native America: The West
- AMST/HIST 235—Twentieth-Century American Indian History
- AMST 337—Beyond Red Power: American Indian Activism since 1900
- AMST 339—The Long 1960s in Native America
- AMST 341—Digital Native America
- AMST 701: Interdisciplinary Research Methods
- AMST/HIST 878: Readings in Native American History