Paula Mitchell Marks
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Paula Mitchell Marks | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Historian |
| Known for | 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist |
| Notable work | In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival |
Paula Mitchell Marks is an American historian specializing in U.S. women’s history and the history of the American West. She was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for history for her book, In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival.[1][2]
Marks received her Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 1987.[3][4]
Career
Marks is professor emerita of American studies at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.[3] She held a number of previous positions at St. Edward's University, including associate dean and director of the Master of Liberal Arts program.[3][5]
Her book In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival, which chronicles how the U.S. government and white settlers worked together to seize land from Native Americans, was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in History.[1][2] Her earlier book, Precious dust: The American gold rush era, 1848-1900, received the 1994 Spur Award for Nonfiction-Historical from Western Writers of America.[6]
Marks served on the boards of the Western Writers of America and the Texas Institute of Letters.[3] In 2015, she became vice president of the Texas State Historical Association, more than thirty years after first joining the association as a graduate research assistant.[7]
