Jayne Kinney
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Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies,
History & American Indian St
- North Dakota Indigenous History, US History, Women and Gender Studies, Food Studies
Contact Info
- Email: jayne.kinney@UND.edu
- Office: 701.777.3681
Office Address
History & American Indian St
O'Kelly Hall Room 228
221 Centennial Drive Stop 8096
Grand Forks, ND 58202-8096
Curriculum Vitae
Office Hours
Mondays 11 am-12 pm, Wednesday 2 pm-3 pm, Thursday 10 am-11 am, or by appointment.
IS 201 History of the Lakota
IS 207 The History of the Three Affiliated Tribes
IS 121 Introduction to American Indian Studies
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
“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