Laura Tuennerman, PhD

Laura Tuennerman is a professor of history and Director of the American Democracy Project at PennWest University where she teaches courses United States, Public History and Women’s History. She has authored, co-authored or co-edited: Transnational Indians of the North American West, with Clarissa Confer and Andrae Marak (2015), At the Border of Empires: The Tohono O'odham, Gender and Assimilation, 1880-1934, with Andrae Marak (2013), and Helping Others, Helping Ourselves: Power, Giving and Identity in Cleveland, Ohio.

She completed her PhD in history at the University of Minnesota, an MA in history with a certificate in public history at the University of Delaware, and an BA in history at the College of Wooster.