Laura Woodworth-Ney
Former Executive Vice President and Provost, Professor - American History
Research Interests
Federal Indian policy, federal reclamation policy, women, irrigation ideology, and irrigated settlement in the American West.
Courses
Dr. Woodworth-Ney is not teaching in the department during her current administrative appointment as the chief academic officer of Idaho State University.
Books
Women in the American West. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2008.
Mapping Identity: The Creation of the Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, 1805-1902. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2004.
Other Publications
"Negotiating Boundaries of Territory and 'Civilization': The Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation Agreement Councils, 1873-1889." Pacific Northwest Quarterly 94, no. 1 (Winter 2002/2003): 27-39.
"Water, Culture, and Progressive Politics: Albin C. and Elizabeth DeMary and the Struggle for Local Control of the Minidoka Reclamation Project, 1905-1920." In United States Bureau of Reclamation, A Century of Water for the West, 1902-2002. Denver: U.S. Department of the Interior, 2002.