Andrew Fisher

Assistant Professor, History

Office: Blair 317
Phone: 757-221-1447
Email: [[ahfis2]]

Background

Andrew Fisher received his Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2003. His research and teaching interests focus on modern Native American history, environmental history, and the American West. He is currently working on his first book, which examines off-reservation communities and processes of tribal ethnogenesis in the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest. Previous publications include “Tangled Nets: Treaty Rights and Tribal Identities at Celilo Falls,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 105 (Summer 2004): 179-211, and “They Mean to Be Indian Always: The Origins of Columbia River Indian Identity, 1860-1885,” Western Historical Quarterly 32 (Winter 2001): 468-492.