History Department Faculty (Jacqueline Peterson), WSU Vancouver: Records, circa.1990-2000

Jacqueline (Jackie) Peterson received her PhD from the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1981. She joined Washington State University History Department as faculty in 1983. She later transfered from Pullman to WSU Vancouver in 1994. Peterson primarily taught Native American history, North American history and public history while at WSU Vancouver. One of Peterson's notable projects was a National Endowment of the Humanities funded museum exhibit entitled Sacred Encounters: The Society of Jesus and the Indians of the Northwest. She servered as curator and director. Peterson's publications include Sacred Encounters: Father De Smet and the Indians of the Rocky Mountain West (University of Oklahoma Press, 1993) and The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Metis in North America, ed., with Jennifer S.H. Brown (University of Manitoba Press, 1991). Peterson retired from WSU Vancouver in 2010. She is professor emerita of History and Comparative American Cultures at Washington State University Vancouver.