Renee Laegreid

Renee Martini Laegreid specializes in the history of the American West, with a focus on gender and culture in the late nineteenth to mid- twentieth century. Her current research projects involve cultural and social analysis of western iconography, examining how symbols of the West have been created and shaped over time, and across international boundaries.

 

Research Interests

19th and 20th Century West

Symbolic representation of western icons

Transnationalism

Women and gender in the US and the US West

Cultural History

Social History

 

Publications

Renee M. Laegreid, editor, Mari Sandoz and the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Lincoln: University of

Nebraska Press, 2024).

*Will Rogers Medallion Award for Western Non-Fiction, 2025.

Renee M. Laegreid and Shannon Smith, eds., Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz (Lincoln:

University of Nebraska Press, 2019).

Renee M. Laegreid and Sandra K. Mathews, Women’s Experiences on the North American Plains

(Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2011).

*Nebraska Book Awards, Honor Award for Best Anthology, 2012.

Renee M. Laegreid, Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in the American West (Lincoln: University of

Nebraska Press, 2006).

*Western Writers of America Spurs Award finalist for Contemporary Non-Fiction, 2007.

 

Course Offerings

HIST 1251: Wyoming History

HIST 2060: US West Between the World Wars

HIST 2389: Women in the West

HIST 4530/5530: 19th Century West

HIST 4540/5540: 20th Century West

HIST 4990: History of Disease

HIST 5585: Seminar: Global West

 

Dr. Laegreid served as the UW Faculty Representative on the Governor's Council for the Women's Suffrage Celebration.