Born and raised in Washington State, Dr. Josh Reid (Snohomish) is an Assistant Professor of American Indian History at University of Massachusetts, Boston. He also directs the university’s new program in Native American and Indigenous Studies. He earned his B.A. from Yale University with a double major in Political Science and Studies in the Environment. After graduating from Yale, he joined Teach For America and taught a range of humanities courses to middle school students. In 2009, he earned his doctorate in History, with a designated emphasis in Native American Studies, at University of California, Davis. Under the direction of Professor Louis Warren, he completed his award-winning dissertation “‘The Sea Is My Country’: The Maritime World of the Makah, an Indigenous Borderlands People,” which he is currently revising for publication. Dr. Reid’s research interests include American Indians, identity formation, cultural meanings of space and place, the American and Canadian Wests, the environment, and the indigenous Pacific. Some of his work with the Makah recently appeared in two edited volumes. In 2010, an article on a new project appeared in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly. Titled “Prof. Igloo Jimmie and Dr. Boombang Meet the Heathens,” the article explores issues of race and empire at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of 1909. More recently, an article on indigenous power appeared in History & Theory. Dr. Reid has presented his work at conferences in the U.S., Canada, Finland, Germany, and New Zealand. He has received grants, fellowships, and post-docs from the Ford Foundation, the Boston Athaeneum, the American Philosophical Association, the Gates Foundation, University of California, and University of Massachusetts. He currently sits on the editorial advisory board of the Pacific Northwest Quarterly and on the American Historical Association Council.