Biography
Jenny Hale Pulsipher is a professor of history at Brigham Young University, specializing in early American and Native American history. Her first book, “Subjects unto the Same King”: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), was selected as a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title in 2006. Her second book, Swindler Sachem: The American Indian who Sold His Birthright, Dropped Out of Harvard, and Conned the King of England (Yale University Press, 2018), received the 2019 Norris and Carole Hundley award from the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch for the best book on any historical subject. Pulsipher has also published articles in the William and Mary Quarterly, Early American Literature, The New England Quarterly, and The Massachusetts Historical Review. Her current project is a biography of her Shoshone ancestors, Sally Exervier and Adelaide Exervier Brown.
Research Interests
Native American history, Early American history, 19th century Utah, interactions between Native Americans and white settlers, race, identityTeaching Interests
Native American history, Early American history, writing narrative historyHonors and Awards
- John Topham and Susan Redd Butler BYU Faculty Award, Charles Redd Center (2021 - 2023)
- Karl G. Maeser Research and Creative Arts Award, Brigham Young University (2020 - 2020)
- Norris and Carol Hundley Book Prize, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch (2019 - 2019)
Professional Citizenship
- Committee/Council Member, American Historical Association (2020 - 2022)
- Other, International Relief Committee (IRC), Los Angeles (2018 - 2020)
- Committee/Council Chair, Rocky Mountain Seminar in Early American History (2012 - 2018)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, William and Mary Quarterly (2017 - 2018)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Women's History (2014 - 2014)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of American History (2014 - 2014)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, University of Pennsylvania Press (2014 - 2014)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, New York University Press (2014 - 2014)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Cornell University Press (2014 - 2014)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, William and Mary Quarterly (2014 - 2014)
- Media Interview, Ogden Standard-Examiner (2012 - 2012)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of American History (2012 - 2012)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Journal of Early American History (2012 - 2012)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, Harvard University Press (2012 - 2012)
- Reviewer, Ad Hoc Reviewer, William and Mary Quarterly (2012 - 2012)
- Grant Proposal Reviewer, External, Massachusetts Historical Society (2012 - 2012)