Visiting Assistant Professor
Education
Ph.D., History, Marquette University, 2016
M.A., History, University of Montana, 2011
B.A., History and Anthropology, Marquette University, 2009
Biography
Dr. Hyams is a visiting assistant professor of history at Sam Houston State University. He teaches undergraduate courses on Indigenous North Americans, the American South, and U.S. - Spanish/Mexican Borderlands. A historian of race, law, and the American West, his research and teaching place nineteenth and twentieth-century American debates about race and citizenship against the backdrop of conflict and contact with indigenous nations that Americans alternatively feared, colonized, or failed to understand.
He is currently preparing a manuscript out of his dissertation, "Long Journeys to a Middle Ground" that examines reforms to Indian Administration in the Northwest United States during the 1920s and '30s, as part of a broader attempt to reconcile the long-standing cultural, social, and legal incompatibility of Indian Country's fluidity and the American administrative state's rigidity. Dr. Hyams completed a Bachelor of Arts in history and anthropology from Marquette University in 2009. He completed a Master of Arts focused in American Environmental History from the University of Montana in 2011, and received a Ph.D. in American History from Marquette University in 2016.
Courses
Undergraduate:
HIST 3392 - American Indian History
HIST 3396 - The American South
HIST 3398 - Texas and the Southwest