Colleen O’Neill received her B.A. from Pomona College, M.A. at New Mexico State
University and Ph.D. in History at Rutgers University. She is particularly fond of
crossing paradigmatic borders, most notably combining her interests in labor, gender and
American Indian history in her new book, Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the
Twentieth Century (University Press of Kansas, 2005). The Historical Society of New
Mexico recently awarded this book the 2006 Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award for best
historical publication (by an individual). 

Her work has been recognized in a number of ways, including the Walter Rundell Graduate
Student Award from the Western History Association in 1994, and the Gilberto Espinosa
Prize for the best article published in 1999 in the New Mexico Historical Review. Her
collection co-edited with Brian Hosmer, Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and
Economic Development in the Twentieth Century was recently published by the University
Press of Colorado (Fall 2004). She serves as the co-editor of the Western Historical
Quarterly and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in American Indian and U.S.
Western History.

Articles

Interwoven Economic Histories: American Indians in a Capitalist America (with Alexandra Harmon and Paul Rosier), Journal of American History (2011)
 

The ‘Making' of the Navajo Worker: Navajo Households, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Off Reservation Wage Work, 1948-1960, New Mexico Historical Review (1999)
 

Domesticity Deployed: Gender, Race, and the Construction of Class Struggle in the Bisbee Deportation, Labor History (1993)
 

Books

Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century, Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century (2005)
 

Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century (with Brian Hosmer), Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century (2004)
 

A Guide to Oral History Collections in New Mexico (with Jeffrey P. Brown and Andrew Wigget), A Guide to Oral History Collections in New Mexico (1990)
 

Contributions to Books

Charity or Industry?: Gendering of Work Relief in Indian Country in the New Deal Era, Women at Work: A Transnational Study of Aboriginal and Native American Women’s Labour from the Late 19th Century to the Modern Era (2011)
 

Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Labor Systems, Workers Across the Americas (2011)
 

Jobs and Sovereignty: Tribal Employment Rights and Energy Development in the 20th Century, Indians and Energy: Opportunity or Exploitation? (2010)
 

Bisbee Deportation, Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History (2007)
 

Native Americans, Encyclopedia of U.S. Labor and Working Class History (2007)