Jacqueline Peterson
Professor of History
WSU Vancouver
– 360-546-9644
jpeterson1@vancouver.wsu.edu
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Chicago, 1981
Academic & Professional Interests
Peterson teaches Native American, North American, and public history. Peterson recently curated and directed a 7,000-square-foot traveling museum exhibition funded by NEH titled Sacred Encounters: The Society of Jesus and the Indians of the Northwest.
Publications
Peterson's publications include Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West (University of Oklahoma Press, 1993) and The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Metis in North America, ed., with Jennifer S.H. Brown (University of Manitoba Press, 1991).