Matthew Makley

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Matthew Makley

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

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Bio

Following five years in the Sonoran desert Matthew S. Makley sought refuge in the shadow of the Rockies at Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver). Prior to MSU Denver he taught courses at Arizona State University where he earned a Ph.D. with a specialty in Native American history, and the history of the American West.


The University of Nevada Press published Makley’s co-authored book, Cave Rock: Climbers, Courts and a Washoe Indian Sacred Site, in 2010. The University of Massachusetts Press published his second book, The Small Shall be Strong: A History of Lake Tahoe's Washoe Indians, in June 2018. When not working he enjoys exploring the canyons, mountains, deserts, and waterways of the American West.

Degree

PhD in Native American History, History of the American West

Arizona State University

MA in History

California State University, Chico

BA in History

Humboldt State University

Published Works

  • Nieto, P. A., Makley, S. M. (2021). A Brief History of Water Interdependencies the Colorado Plateau. Special Edition volume for Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, 65(4), 645-657. .
  • Makley, S. M. (2018). The Small Shall be Strong: A History of Lake Tahoe's Washoe Indians. (pp 248). University of Massachusetts Press. https://www.umasspress.com/9781625343475/the-small-shall-be-strong/
  • Makley, S. M. (2016). Review of American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890. Journal of American Nineteenth Century History, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664658.2015.1136469
  • Makley, S. M. (2015). Finding Transnationalism in the American Interior: A Shared Past: Washoe Indians and the Dawes Act of 1887. (pp 312). Texas A&M University Press. www.amazon.com/Transnational-Indians-American-Connecting-Greater/dp/1623493269/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477096376&sr=8-1&keywords=transnational+indians+in+the+north+american+west
  • Makley, S. M. (2014). Nevada Indian History Marked by Fame and Misfortune. Stephens Press,
  • Makley, S. M. (2014). Sarah Winnemucca: Prominent Paiute Leader. Stephens Press,
  • Makley, S. M. (2014). Review of Crooked paths to Allotment: The Fight over Federal Indian Policy after the Civil War. . Western Historical Quarterly,
  • Makley, S. M. (2012). As If the Land Owned Us: An Ethnohistory of the White Mesa Utes. Montana: The Magazine of Western History,
  • Makley, S. M. (2012). Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre. History: Reviews of New Books,
  • Makley, S. M., Makley, J. M. (2010). Cave Rock: Climbers, Courts, and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place. (pp 132). University of Nevada Press.
  • Makley, S. M. (2006). Review of Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California's Natural Resources. Journal of the West,
  • Makley, S. M. (2006). "The Washishiw" in the Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration into the American West. Sage Publications,
  • Makley, S. M. (2003). "A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities". American Indian Quarterly, 27(1 and 2). .
  • Makley, S. M. (2002). Review of Colony and Empire: the Capitalist Transformation of the American West. The Chico Historian,
  • Makley, S. M. (2001). "Your People are Destroying our Trees and Our Food: A Seasonal Cycle of the Washoe". Chico Historian, 11 .

Office Hours

Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 am-1:00 pm