
William J. Bauer, Ph.D.
Office: WRI B -316
Phone: (702) 895-0918
Email: wbauer@unlv.edu
Website: William J. Bauer, Ph.D.
William (Willy) Bauer is an associate professor of history. Dr. Bauer (Wailacki and Concow), is an enrolled member of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and grew up on the Round Valley Reservation in northern California. He received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. He joined the UNLV faculty in 2009. Dr. Bauer will offer classes on California Indian, American Indian, and American West history.
Dr. Bauer is the author of "We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here"; Work, Community and Memory on California's Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). He has also published an introduction to a revised edition of John W. Caughey's McGillivray of the Creeks (University of South Carolina Press), and essays on California Indian history in the Western Historical Quarterly, Native Pathways; American Indian Culture and Economic Change in the Twentieth Century (University of Colorado Press), and A Companion to California History (Wiley-Blackwell).
Dr. Bauer's current research will focus on how issues related to aging have been instrumental in the development of Indigenous Nationalism in the twentieth century West. He is also planning a work on California Indians in the19th century.
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