HST 302: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

This course introduces students to the historical experiences of Native people of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. By focusing on diverse experiences throughout the region, we will examine how Indigenous peoples navigated processes of state-formation, development, and modernization through a combination of consent, engagement, and outright resistance.

Alan Shane Dillingham is assistant professor of History at Arizona State University. He received his doctoral degree in history from the University of Maryland. Having previously taught a multiple liberal arts institutions, Dillingham seeks to connect the history and politics of Native peoples across the Americas in his teaching and scholarship.

Dillingham's award-winning first book, Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Stanford University Press, 2021), traces the contested history of Mexican indigenista policy and how Indigenous people of southern Mexico advocated for alternative forms of development and anticolonial education. The American Society for Ethnohistory selected Oaxaca Resurgent for its 2022 Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Book Award. 

He has published articles and book chapters on the Global 1960s, education and development policy, and the rise of Third World politics. Dillingham is the recipient of various research and awards and fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Smithsonian Institution. He is currently working on a second book project that explores modern Indigenous history and politics from a hemispheric perspective. 

Location: Coor Hall 4574

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