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Jennifer O'Neal

Assistant Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies for IRES
IRES, Native American Studies
joneal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8830
Office: 203 Alder Bldg
Office Hours: By Appointment
Research Interests: Native American and Indigenous history; American West history; International Relations; Indigenous Data Sovereignty; Cultural Heritage Archives; Indigenous Knowledge Systems; Digital Humanities
Website: https://ethnicstudies.uoregon.edu/profile/joneal

Biography

Jennifer R. O'Neal is an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon, and affiliated faculty with the History department and Robert D. Clark Honors College. Her interdisciplinary research and teaching focus on Native American, United States, and international relations history in the twentieth century to the present, with an emphasis on sovereignty, self-determination, cultural heritage, global Indigenous rights, activism, and legal issues. 

 

Education

PhD, History, Georgetown University
Master of Arts, Library and Information Science, University of Arizona
Master of Arts, History, Utah State University

Publications

“Transforming Collecting,” In Indigenous Languages and the Promise of Archives. eds. Link, Adrianna, Abigail Shelton, and Patrick Spero, 425-429. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

“The Northern Paiute History Project: Engaging Undergraduates in Decolonizing Research with Tribal Communities,” with Kevin Hatfield, Western Humanities Review, vol. 74, no. 3 (2020): 193-214.

"From Time Immemorial: Centering Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in the Archival Paradigm," Afterlives of Indigenous Archives, eds. Ivy Scweitzer and Gordon Henry, University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Michelle M. Jacob, Emily West Hartlerode, Joanna Jensen, Kelly M. LaChance, and Jennifer R. O'Neal. "Placing Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledges at the Center of Our Research and Teaching," Journal of Folklore and Education, vol. 5, no. 2 (2018). 

Mark Carey, Kathy Lynn, Kevin Hatfield, and Jennifer R. O'Neal. "Teaching about Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples: Decolonizing Research and Broadening Knowledge," Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities, eds. Stephen Siperstein, Shane Hall, and Stephanie LeMenager. New York: Routledge, 2016. 

"'The Right to Know: Decolonizing Native American Archives," Journal of Western Archives 6, no. 1 (2015).

"Respect, Recognition, and Reciprocity: The Protocols for Native American Archival Materials," in Identity Palimpsests: Archiving Ethnicity in the US and Canada, eds. Dominique Daniel and Amalia Levi, 125-142. Sacramento: Litwin Press, 2014.

“Going Home: The Digital Return of Films at the National Museum of the American Indian,” Museum Anthropology Review 7, no. 1 (2013): 166-184.

“Cultural Stewardship at the National Museum of the American Indian Archive Center,” Calicut University Folkloristics Journal, 2010.

Honors and Awards

Wayne Morse Center Resident Scholar (2023-24)

Katrin H. Lamon Research Fellowship, School for Advanced Research (2022-23)

Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon (2020-21)

Center for the Study of Women in Society, Faculty Research Award, University of Oregon (2020)

Sustainability Award, University of Oregon (2020)

Rippey Innovative Teaching Award, University of Oregon (2018-2019)

Henry Roe Cloud Dissertation Fellowship, Yale University (2018-2019)

Outstanding Faculty Award, Center for Multicultural and Academic Excellence, University of Oregon (2015)

Diversity Excellence Award, Society of American Archivists (2014)

Teaching