Jayne Kinney

IS 121 Introduction to American Indian Studies (Online, In Person, and SPEA Enroll Anytime)

IS 201 History of the Lakota 

IS 207 The History of the Three Affiliated Tribes

IS 210 Rez Ball: Exploring Indigenous Culture Through Sports

IS 344 Boarding Schools and Their Legacies

IS 492 Directed Readings in American Indian Studies

ENGL 100 Humanities Seminar in Self, Citizenship, and Community

North Dakota Indigenous History

American Indian and Indigenous Studies

US History

Women and Gender Studies

Food Studies

Media Studies

History of Professional Wrestling 

Ph.D. US History and minor in American Indian and Indigenous Studies , University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 2024

MA of History, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2019

BS Social Studies Education, Summa Cum Laude. Taylor University, 2017

Forthcoming publication: "The Fort Berthold Indian Industrial Fair of 1911: Displaying Indigenous Sovereignty in the Progressive Era," in The Montana Magazine of Western History. Summer 2027

Book Review of History & Memory in German-Russian Country. By Thomas D Isern, Jessica Clark, Carol Just, Debra Marquart, and Steve C. Martens. (Fargo: North Dakota State University Press, 2025. xiv + 143 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $19.95, paperback.) published in the Western History Quarterly. Summer 2026. DOI: 10.1093/whq/whag032.

“Lunatic: The Luna Vachon Story Unveils the Complex Life of a Wrestling Icon.” Slam Wrestling, March 17, 2025.

“Sitting on the Watcher’s Stage: Networks of Kinship and Sovereignty Among the Corn
Rows.” American Indian Quarterly 48 (2): 109–38. doi:10.1353/aiq.2024.a941359.

“Indigenous Gardening and Food Sovereignty,” in Thinking Nation AP Ethnic Studies Curriculum. Online. 2023. https://www.thinkingnation.org/curriculum/

"Holding On to Culture: The Effects of the 1837 Smallpox Epidemic on the Mandan and
Hidatsa." Butler Journal of Undergraduate Research 4 (2018).

FELLOWSHIPS

Sara Evens Fellowship in Women’s History in the Department of History 

Newberry Consortium of American Indian Studies Summer Fellow 

Center for the American West Applied History Summer Workshop Participant 

Rosenbloom Scholarship, Center of the American West 2021 

The University of Minnesota Emergency Grant for Delayed Travel Summer 2021 

Minnesota Chapter of The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America Grant in American History 2021 

Interdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Summer 2020

University of Minnesota History Endowed Fellowship. 2020

Dean’s Fellowship, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2018-2019

AWARDS

Best Navigate College Access Coach-College Possible Minnesota, 2025

Woodberry Prize, Nineteenth-Century Studies Program, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2019 for “Feminine Mortality: The Role of Matrilineal Class in Mandan and Hidatsa Death and Mourning Practices.”

Wood Memorial Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln History Department, Fall 2018

Runner Up Graduate Paper, Northern Great Plains History Conference 2018 

Western History Association Annual Conference, "Letters from Independence: Wolf Chief’s Campaign of Inter-Community Collaboration and Resistance," Western History Association, Portland, Oregon. (October 23, 2026).
Presenting as part of a round table on a forthcoming anthology Indian Agents, Administrative Conquest, and the History of North America

 Railroads in Native America: An Exploration of the Intersection of American Railroading and Indian Country, "Pan-Indigenous Advocacy at the 1925 Fort Union Indian Congress," Railroads in Native America Forum., Sacramento, California. (July 10, 2026).

Western Association of Women Historians' 57th Annual Conference, "Buffalo Bird Woman’s Prize-Winning Corn: How Mandan, Hidatsa, and Sahnish Women Challenged Americanization and Crafted Resilience Progressive-Era Rural Fairs," Western Association of Women Historians, Sacramento, California. (April 24, 2026).

Conversations Across Cultures, "North Dakota Indigenous History: an Overview," University Lutheran Church, Grand Forks, ND. (November 15, 2025).

North Dakota Today, "Native American Heritage Month at UND," Valley News Live, Fargo, ND. (November 10, 2025).

 NORW 350. Norwegian Culture, "Wolf Chief's Store: Language, Inter-Community Collaboration, and Resistance," University of North Dakota Norwegian Department, Grand Forks, North Dakota. (October 2, 2025).
Indy Talk with Jesse and Jeryn, "The History of Professional Wrestling with Historian Dr. Jayne Kinney." (July 16, 2025).
College In the Classroom Summer Workshop, "The Heart of the Nation”: The Roles of Female Leadership Networks in Mandan and Hidatsa Resistance and Resilience." (August 2024).
St. Martin’s by the Lake Forums, "Indigenous History in Minnesota." (August 2024).
St. Martin’s by the Lake Forums, "The Heart of the Nation”: The Roles of Female Leadership Networks in Mandan and Hidatsa Resistance and Resilience." (July 2024).
The Applied History Initiative, "Collaborative Research in Applied History." (May 2024).
Newberry Consortium in American Indian and Indigenous Studies Graduate Student Conference, "The Fort Berthold Industrial Fair 1911: Sites of Survivance." (January 2022)

Western History Association Annual Conference, "They Walked with the Buffalo: A Response to Anglo-American Perceptions of Mandan Women." (2019).
Nebraska Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting, "They Walked with the Buffalo: A Response to Anglo-American Perceptions of Mandan Women." (April 2019).
 James A. Rawley Graduate Research Conference, "They Walked with the Buffalo: A Response to Anglo-American Perceptions of Mandan Women." (March 2019).
Northern Great Plains History Conference, "They Walked with the Buffalo: A Response to Anglo-American Perceptions of Mandan Women." (September 2018).
Northern Illinois University History Graduate Studies Association Conference, "Holding on to Culture: The Effects of the 1837 Smallpox Epidemic on the Mandan and Hidatsa." (November 2017).
 North Central Jurisdiction Archives and History Convocation, "Holding on to Culture: The Effects of the 1837 Smallpox Epidemic on the Mandan and Hidatsa." (July 2017).
, The Butler University Undergraduate Research Conference, "Preserving Identity Through Adversity: The Germans from Russia." (March 2016).
The Butler University Undergraduate Research Conference, "Holding on to Culture: The Effects of the 1837 Smallpox Epidemic on the Mandan and Hidatsa." (March 2015).