About the Author
Katrina Jagodinsky is the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of History at University of Nebraska Lincoln. She teaches legal, nineteenth-century, and Western history, and is the current graduate chair of the history department. She occasionally shows up as @drjagodinsky on twitter.
On behalf of Legal Codes & Talking Trees, Katrina has given campus talks at Berkeley College of Law, University of Victoria, Portland State University, Western Washington University and for independent bookstores in Friday Harbor, WA and Lincoln, NE. In 2019, Katrina gave the plenary address at the annual Arizona History Convention, and she was the inaugural Jack & Nancy Farley Distinguished Visiting Scholar in History at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.
Katrina is co-editor of Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West, an anthology that features her autobiographical historiography outlining the intersections of borderlands, critical, and legal histories influencing her scholarly trajectory.
Katrina has prize-winning articles in Western Historical Quarterly and Western Legal History and has also written for American Indian Quarterly.
She earned a BA from Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and her MA in American Indian Studies and PhD in History from University of Arizona in Tucson.
Before joining UNL's faculty, Katrina was a postdoctoral fellow at Southern Methodist University's Clements Center for Southwest Studies and she has taught at Tohono O'odham Community College, Pima Community College, University of Arizona, and University of Arizona South.