Rita Napier

Contact Information Phone: (785) 864-9448 Office: 3616 Wescoe Hall Email: rnapier@ku.edu

Assoc Prof. (Ph.D. American, 1976). Social history of the American West, Native American history, history of Kansas. Research on the Plains Indians; the urban frontier; development of democracy in the American West; American land law and tenure. Author of several studies in frontier history. H. Bernerd Fink Distinguished Teaching Award, 1983, and other teaching honors.