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Catherine Denial
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Mary Elizabeth Hand Bright and Edwin Winslow Bright Distinguished Professor of American History
Mary Elizabeth Hand Bright and Edwin Winslow Bright Distinguished Professor of American History
Old Main 305
2 East South Street
Galesburg
IL
61401
309-341-7382
+13093417382
cdenial@knox.edu
<p>"My research focuses on marriage in Minnesota before 1850, particularly as a means of understanding gender, sexuality, race and nation-building in the region. Marriages of all kinds, and the households that marriages created, were inextricably bound up with questions of nation and identity for the Dakota, the Ojibwe, mixed-heritage individuals, and Americans who interacted in the Upper Midwest. Through the stories of married - and divorcing - men and women in the region, we can trace the uneven fortunes of American expansion in the early nineteenth century, and the nation-shaping power of marital acts."</p>