Professor, History
Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2000
M.A., American History, Hunter College, City University
of New York, 1995
B.A., East Asian History, University of Michigan, 1989
Indigenous North America (Lakota)
Settler colonialism
The North American West
Akim Reinhardt joined Towson University’s history department in 2001. He is currently researching Indigenous identity constructions in the 19th and 20th centuries.
While on sabbatical in spring 2022, Professor Reinhardt traveled to several South Dakota archives, including Oglala Lakota College on Pine Ridge Reservation. His resulting work, which will be the focus of a future book, examines how Lakota society has defined and understood the role of mixed people or iyeška, which means translator, and how those definitions and understandings changed between the early 19th century and the 1970s. Read more.
Welcome to the Oglala Nation: A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Political History (University of Nebraska Press, 2015)
Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee (Texas Tech, 2007)
Center for Great Plains Studies 2008 Book of the Year: Ruling Pine Ridge.