Ryan Hall
I am a fourth year student in the history Ph.D. program, specializing in American Indian history and the history of the American West. My dissertation focuses on the Blackfoot peoples of what is now Montana and Alberta between roughly the years 1780 and 1870. I’m especially interested in the Blackfeet’s relationship to European imperialism and social change within Blackfoot society. Ned Blackhawk and John Mack Faragher are my co-advisors.
Before coming to Yale, I earned my undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma, where my interest in the West began with a senior thesis examining the community of Sallisaw, Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl. This project evolved into a forthcoming article in Agricultural History.
During the spring 2012 semester I’m a research fellow at the Beinecke Library and am coordinating the Yale Group for the Study of Native America. When I’m not working on my dissertation, I enjoy learning guitar, good music and playing basketball. Please feel free to contact me with any questions about the graduate program.
