Participant Info
- First Name
- Sarah
- Last Name
- Keyes
- Country
- United States
- State
- NV Nevada
- sarahkeyes@unr.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Nevada Reno
- Website URL
- https://www.unr.edu/history/faculty-staff/sarah-keyes
- Keywords
- U.S. West, Pioneer mythology, U.S.-Indian relations, Landmarks, Landscape
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Sarah Keyes is a historian of the United States. She specializes in the 19th century and the history of the U.S. West with a focus on the environment and intercultural interactions between Indigenous peoples and non-Native settlers. Her current work explores these topics along the overland trails to Oregon and California in the mid-19th century. Her first book, American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in October 2023. Keyes has also begun work on her second project, a regional and transnational study of suffrage in the U.S. West, for which she was recently awarded a Mellon-Schlesinger Summer Research Grant from the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University.
- Recent Publications
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023).
“Western Adventurers and Male Nurses: Indians, Cholera, and Masculinity in Overland Trail Narratives,” The Western Historical Quarterly, (Spring 2018).
“‘Like a Roaring Lion’: The Overland Trail as a Sonic Conquest,” Journal of American History (June 2009): 19-43.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @SarahKeyesPhD
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Environment, Gender, Race
