Mark Boxell, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- American West, Environmental History, Modern United States
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Education
University of Oklahoma, Ph.D.
Colorado State University, M.A.
University of Evansville, B.A.
Background
Dr. Mark Boxell is an assistant professor of history whose research and teaching focus on the American West, environmental history, and the modern United States.
His current research is on the oil industry in the early twentieth-century Mid-Continent region of the United States, particularly in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and Texas, with an emphasis on how the production of oil shaped settlers' claims to Indigenous land and wealth.
He is currently revising his dissertation, "Red Soil, White Oil: Petroleum and White Supremacy in the Progressive-Era United States," into a book. His work has been published in the Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era as well as in edited volumes published by Routledge and the University of West Virginia Press and his research has been supported by the Western History Association and the Organization of American Historians, among others.
Additional Information
Education
University of Oklahoma, Ph.D.
Colorado State University, M.A.
University of Evansville, B.A.
Background
Dr. Mark Boxell is an assistant professor of history whose research and teaching focus on the American West, environmental history, and the modern United States.
His current research is on the oil industry in the early twentieth-century Mid-Continent region of the United States, particularly in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and Texas, with an emphasis on how the production of oil shaped settlers' claims to Indigenous land and wealth.
He is currently revising his dissertation, "Red Soil, White Oil: Petroleum and White Supremacy in the Progressive-Era United States," into a book. His work has been published in the Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era as well as in edited volumes published by Routledge and the University of West Virginia Press and his research has been supported by the Western History Association and the Organization of American Historians, among others.