Jennifer Andrella

Assistant Professor

Bio

Jennifer Andrella is historian of the nineteenth-century United States specializing in the political history of the American West, the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, and Native American history. Her current book project, When the War Raged On: Montana Territory, Native Nations, and the Struggle over Reconstruction in the West, examines how western territories like Montana influenced the political discourse and policies of post-Civil War Reconstruction as a national project. She is also affiliated faculty with the Center for Digital Humanities at USM and supports the development of DH projects in classes and with community partners. Her digital project, Mapping the Upper Missouri: Visualizing Negotiation, Diplomacy, and Culture on the Northern Plains, 1801-1853 (mappingtheuppermissouri.com), centers Indigenous spatiality in the fur trade.

At the University of Southern Mississippi, she teaches courses on digital history, United States history, and Native American history.

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