Joshua L. Reid

Born and raised in Washington State, Dr. Josh Reid (Snohomish) is an assistant professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where he also directs the program in Native American and Indigenous Studies. He earned his B.A. from Yale University, joined Teach For America, and taught middle school for nine years. In 2009, he earned his doctorate in history, with a designated emphasis in Native American Studies, at University of California, Davis. Along with _The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs_ (in the Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity from Yale University Press), some of his work with the Makah recently appeared in two edited volumes. Dr. Reid also has articles in the _Pacific Northwest Quarterly_ and _History & Theory_. He has received grants, fellowships, and post-docs from the Ford Foundation, the Boston Athenaeum, the American Philosophical Association, and the Gates Foundation. He currently sits on the editorial advisory board of the Pacific Northwest Quarterly and on the American Historical Association Council. He is also a Distinguished Speaker for the Western Historical Association. Dr. Reid’s research interests include American Indians, identity formation, cultural meanings of space and place, the American and Canadian Wests, the environment, and the indigenous Pacific. In the fall of 2015, he will join the History and American Indian Studies departments at the University of Washington as an associate professor.