Edward P. Green
The Pennsylvania State University
epg5260@psu.edu
Current Academic Position
Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Pennsylvania State University
Previous Professional Positions
Managing Editor of The Journal of the Civil War Era, 2024-2025
Education
Ph.D. History, Pennsylvania State University, May 2025
Dissertation Title: “Captains and Community: Interdependence, Diplomacy, and Experiences of ‘Quotidian Power’ in the Choctaw Nation, 1729-1860.”
Fields: Nineteenth Century U.S. History (primary), transnational history, race and slavery in 19th century America
Committee: Christina Snyder, Julie Reed, Amy Greenberg, Rachel Shelden, Jacob Lee, and Hollie Kulago
M.A. History, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2019
B.A. History and Politics, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 2016
Published Work
In Progress
“It was just a friendly argument over an election: elections, political legitimacy, and power in the Choctaw Nation” in Jeffrey Pasley, Frank Towers, and Reeve Huston [eds.], Electocracy, (solicited)
Peer Reviewed Work
“‘Learn your laws and it will save you many a dollar’: the Choctaw Court System in an uncertain age, 1865-1907,” Native South, Volume 16, 2023, 55-66.
With Christina Snyder, Frankie Bauer, W. Tanner Allread, George Aaron Broadwell, Jamie Henton, Dani Katenkamp, Julie L. Reed, and Michael Stoop, “‘Mad in the House’: Policing Men in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation,” Native South, Volume 16, 2023, 8-26.
“The Local Politics of ‘Indian Affairs’: Diplomacy, Ethnic Cleansing, and Federal Power in the Age of Missouri Statehood” in Jeffrey Pasley and John Craig Hammond [eds.], Fire Bell in the Past: The Missouri Crisis at 200, Volume II, “The Missouri Question” and its Answers (Columbia, Mo: University of Missouri Press, 2021)
Book Reviews
Review of R David Edmunds, Voices in the Drum: Narratives From the Native American Past in Indiana Magazine of History, 121:4, December 2025, 302-303.
Review of Joshua Clough, Resisting Oklahoma's Reign of Terror: The Society of Oklahoma Indians and the Fight for Native Rights, 1923–1928 in Ethnohistory Volume 72:4, 785-786.
Review of David LaVere, Erasure and Tuscarora Resilience in North Carolina, for H-AmIndian https://networks.h-net.org/group/reviews/20065994/green-la-vere-erasure-and-tuscarora-resilience-colonial-north-carolina
Review of Michael J. Witgen, Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America for American Nineteenth Century History, 24:1, 106-108.
Review of Fay A. Yarbrough, Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Territory for American Nineteenth Century History, 23:1, 115-116.
Public Writing
“From Executive Exoneration to Congressional Clemency” Starting Points, August 2017
http://startingpointsjournal.com/executive-exoneration-congressional-clemency/
External Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
Auburn University, Lowrey Research and Writing Residency at Pebble Hill, July 2026
Helen Hornbeck Tanner Student Paper Award for best student paper delivered at the American Society on Ethnohistory’s 2023 meeting
Phillips Fund for Native American Research, American Philosophical Society, 2023-2024
NCAIS Short Term Research Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago, 2023-2024
Jacob M. Price Fellowship, Clements Library, University of Michigan, 2023-2024
George Washington’s Library at Mount Vernon Fellow, 2023-2024
Helmerich Center Short Term Research Grant, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, 2021-2022
Internal Fellowships and Grants
Humanities Institute Fellow in Residence, Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2023
Richards Center for the Civil War Era College Center & Institute Fellow, Pennsylvania State University, 2022-2023
The McCourtney Institute for Democracy Research in Democracy Support Grants, Pennsylvania State University, 2022-2023
Sparks Dissertation Fellowship, Pennsylvania State University History Department, Fall 2022
RGSO Dissertation Research Grant, Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2022
Lynne G. and Laurence H. Brown Family Graduate Fund in the Richards Center for the Civil War Era, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Whiting Indigenous Knowledge Student Research Award, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 2021
McCourtney Family Graduate Scholarship in American History Warren W. Hassler Graduate Fellowship in the Civil War Era, 2020
Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy Research Travel Grant, 2018
Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy M.A. Fellowship, 2017-2019
Conference Papers and Presentations
“The time is come or near at hand when the Choctaws must look a round to secure their permanency.” Indian Statehood, Race, and Federalism in the American West, 1830-1860, American Society on Ethnohistory, San Antonio, Texas, 2025
Roundtable: Law, Tradition, and Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation: A Study in Choctaw Language and History, American Society on Ethnohistory, San Antonio, Texas, 2025
Roundtable: “New directions in the study of Native American Women” American Society on Ethnohistory, Fargo, North Dakota, September 2024.
“All the power ought not to be in the hands of one man, nor all the money at the control of a few.” Choctaw Removal as Domestic Crisis Society of Historians for the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, PA, July 2024.
Native Americans and State Citizenship in the Deep South, 1830-1865. Conrad E. Wright Research Conference on Citizenship, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, MA., July 2024.
Roundtable on “New Directions in the Study of Citizenship and the State in the Nineteenth Century.” American Political History Conference, Nashville Tennessee, June 2024.
“The Emergence of Public Elections and the Contest for Legitimacy in the Choctaw Nation, 1865-1907” Electocracy Conference, Columbia, MO. March 2024.
“When the land was sold, the power of the chiefs seemed to go”: Captains and Choctaw Removal as Domestic Crisis, 1828-1850, Newberry Library Center for American Indian Studies, Chicago, IL. February 2024.
“Their old form of government has been abandoned”: Legitimacy and Authority in the Choctaw Nation in an Age of Attritional Ethnic Cleansing, 1825-1850” American Society on Ethnohistory, Tallahassee FL. November 2023.
“Contested Loyalties: Choctaw experiences in the U.S. Civil War” BrANCH Conference, Columbia MO. April 2022.
“The Criminalization of Whooping in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation: A Case Study in Language and History.” American Society on Ethnohistory (virtual), November 2021.
“The Choctaws Have but Copied the Laws of Virginia and Louisiana.” Freedom, Slavery, and Sovereignty in the Choctaw Nation, 1820-1860. Newberry Consortium Annual Graduate Conference, (virtual) February 2021.
“The longer history of Choctaw Removal, 1830-1850”, Newberry Consortium Annual Graduate Conference, Chicago IL February 2020.
“Geography and Power in the Choctaw Nation, 1800-1860”,Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy Conference, Columbia MO, April 2019.
“A new agenda for Native American removal studies”, University of Missouri HGSA Symposium, Columbia, MO, April 2019.
“Negotiating the British Menace on the Western Border, 1780-1830”, Conference of the State Historical Society of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, March 2019.
“In the Shadow of the British: Tribal Diplomacy in the Age of the Missouri Crisis”, Conference on the Missouri Crisis of 1818-1821, Columbia, MO, February 2019.
Invited Talks and Lectures
Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Roundtable on “The Criminalization of Whooping in the Nineteenth-Century Choctaw Nation: A Case Study in Language and History” October 2023.
Pennsylvania State University for Katherine Godfrey’s “The Black Atlantic” Class, “Slavery in North America, 1600-1800”; “Slavery in the Antebellum South and the Road to Emancipation(?), 1830-1877” April 2023
The University of Missouri, Columbia, for Jay Sexton’s “Global U.S. Civil War” Class, “The Civil War in Indian Territory” May 2022
Teaching Experience
Instructor of Record
History 441: The American Revolution, The Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2026
History 21: American Civilizations from 1877, The Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2026
History 153: Native American History, The Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2025
History 20: American Civilizations to 1877, The Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2025
As Teaching Assistant
U.S. History from 1877 The Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2020
U.S. History to 1877 The Pennsylvania State University, Fall 2019
Academic Positions
Research Assistant to Professor Christina Snyder, 2022
Editorial Assistant, Journal of the Civil War Era, 2021-2022, 2023-2024
Graduate Convener for Cambridge History of America and the World Vol. 2 Conference, May 17-19, Columbia, Mo), 2018.
Editorial assistant for Jay Sexton and Kristin Hoganson eds. Crossing Empires: Taking History into Transimperial Terrain (Duke University Press, 2020.), 2018.
Departmental Service
Hiring committee,
Postdoctoral Fellows for the Richards Center, 2023.
Undergraduate internships, Richards Center 2023.
Interim Associate Director of the Richards Center, 2024.
JCWE and RCWEC Production and Managing Editor, 2025