Professor Jacqueline Fear-Segal

About

Jacqueline Fear-Segal is Professor of American and Indigenous Histories at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her research interests and writing focus on Native America. Author of White Man’s Club: schools, race, and the struggle of Indian acculturation (University of Nebraska, 2007), winner of the American Studies Network Best Book 2008, and editor of Indigenous Bodies: reviewing, relocation, reclaiming (SUNY Press, 2013) and Carlisle Indian Industrial School: histories, memories, and reclamations (University of Nebraska, 2016), she co-founded and co-directs the Native Studies Research Network UK.

Professor Fear-Segal’s recent research and writing has focused on the federal system of Indian boarding schools in the USA, and the Carlisle Indian School in particular, so she is keen to track the many ‘graduates’ of these schools who joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show and travelled round Europe. While working on the Board of Eighth in the East (a Heritage Lottery Funded project) she was alerted to the impact on East Anglia of 200,000 USAAF servicemen who were stationed in the region and is now very interested to research Native American World War II veterans who spent time in Britain.

Staff profile

https://www.uea.ac.uk/american-studies/people/profile/j-fear-segal