Arts and Sciences/Native American and Indigenous Studies
Native American Education Research and Cultural Center, Rm 117, 200 S 10th St
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-2733
Fax: 307-766-2555
Email: scgsj@uwyo.edu
Associate Professor, History and Native American and Indigenous Studies
B.A., Grand Canyon University (1995)
M.A., University of Montana (2001)
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma (2007)
Email: jmeans4@uwyo.edu
Phone: (307) 766-3198
Office: History Building 255
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Jeff Means (Enrolled Member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe) is an Associate Professor of
History at the University of Wyoming in the field of Native American History. He
arrived in the fall of 2007 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.
His primary area of interest is Great Plains Indian culture and Colonial Cultural
Encounters. Oglala Lakota cultural history in the 18th and 19th century is his primary area of focus. Jeff has won numerous academic awards and
grants, including the first Power-Tanner Graduate Student Fellowship in American Indian
Studies and the first NCAIS Faculty Fellowship at the Newberry Library, the Burlingame-Toole
Award from the Montana Historical Society for the best Graduate student article for
2003, and the American Philosophical Society research grant. He has also received
research grants and awards from the University of Oklahoma, the University of Wyoming,
and East Central University. He has published articles and presented his work at
conferences such as the PCB-AHA, the Western Historical Conference, and the American
Society for Ethnohistory. Jeff is currently working on his first book, which examines
Oglala Lakota cultural transformations and cattle during the nineteenth and early
twentieth century.
Teaching:
Arts and Sciences/Native American and Indigenous Studies
Native American Education Research and Cultural Center, Rm 117, 200 S 10th St
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: 307-766-2733
Fax: 307-766-2555
Email: scgsj@uwyo.edu