May 11, 2010

Dr. Rebecca Bales has been selected to attend a summer institute for university professors at the Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History in Chicago.

She is one of 25 scholars drawn from across academic disciplines and institutions selected to attend the institute, which is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The institute, "From Metacom to Tecumseh: Alliances, Conflicts, and Resistance in Native North America," will examine the complex and shifting alliances between various Indian nations of North America and European colonists competing for land and political ascendancy in regions east of the Mississippi between 1675 and 1815.

The institute will include lectures, discussions, museum visits and opportunities for primary research in the library's humanities archive. At CSUMB, Dr. Bales teaches Native American history in the Division of Social, Behavioral and Global Studies. She earned a Ph.D. in history from Arizona State University.