Rebecca Kugel
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Rebecca Kugel, Associate Professor, History Department
Office: HMNSS Bldg. 5504
Phone: (909) 787-5401 x1-1876
E-mail: rebecca.kugel@ucr.edu
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Degrees
PhD American History 1986 UCLA
MA American History 1978 UCLA
BA English 1974 University of Iowa
Awards
Winner 1999 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Book
Rockefeller Foundation Junior Fellowship, D'Arcy McNickle
Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry Library,
1990-91
Research Areas
Native American history and United States social history
Publications
She has published articles in Ethnohistory and The
American Indian Culture and Research Journal. Her most
recent works are "Religion Mixed with Politics: The 1836
Conversion of Mang'osid of Fond du Lac," and "Of
Missionaries and Their Cattle: Ojibwe Perceptions of a Missionary
as Evil Shaman" and "Leadership Within the Women's
Community: Susie Bonga Wright of the Leech Lake Ojibwe."
Her book on Ojibwe political divisions is entitled, To
Be The Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota
Ojibwe Politics, 1825-1898 (Michigan State University
Press, 1998).
Biography
Rebecca "Monte" Kugel was born on August 10, 1952,
in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The fact that the Great Pueblo Revolt
of 1680 commenced on August 10 had absolutely no bearing on
her decision to become an Indian historian since she was well
into her twenties before she learned of this coincidence.
Her extremely varied ethnic background, including two Native
American tribal groups (Ojibwe and Shawnee) plus French, Irish,
German, Jewish, Danish and Polish ancestry, is more likely
the cause. She attended the University of Iowa planning to
enter the Writer's Workshop. She received a BA from the University
of Iowa in English with a History minor in 1974. Two years
spent working with Native American organizations convinced
her that the historical study of Native Americans was essential
for understanding present-day issues and problems. She entered
the UCLA history graduate program in 1976, earning her M.A.
in 1978 and her Ph.D. in 1986. Her research focuses on the
nineteenth century Minnesota Ojibwe and on the internal social
and political divisions that occurred in Ojibwe villages.
She is currently at work on a study of the attitudes of Great
Lakes-region Native American towards “race” as
a social construct introduced by Anglo-Americans in the early
nineteenth century.
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