Assistant Professor of History
 University of Oklahoma
 455 W. Lindsey, Rm. 403A
 Norman, OK 73019
 (405) 325-6370
 JPiker@ou.edu
 

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, Cornell University, August 1998
M.A. in History, Cornell University, September 1995
B.A. in History and Anthropology, with High Honors, Oberlin  College, 1989
 

DISSERTATION
"'Peculiarly Connected': The Creek Town of Oakfuskee and the Study of Colonial American Communities, 1708-1785"
 Daniel H. Usner, Jr., Chair of Committee
 

HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Huntington Library, Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship, 1999
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture,
 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Finalist, 1998
Huntington Library, Huntington Fellowship, 1997
American Historical Association, Michael Kraus Research Grant, 1997
Mellon Completion Fellowship, 1996-1997
Boldt Fellowship, Department of History, Cornell University, 1996
Mellon Research Semester, 1994
A. D. White Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, Cornell  University, 1991-1994
National Science Foundation, Honorable Mention, 1992
Life Fellowship in History, Oberlin College, 1989
Comfort Starr Prize in Anthropology, Oberlin College, 1989
Sigma Xi (national science honor society), 1989
 

PUBLICATIONS
"Review" of Michael Morris, The Bringing of Wonder: Trade and the Indians of the Southeast, 1700-1783 (Westport, 1999); forthcoming in The Georgia Historical Quarterly.

"American Indian History and Local History," in Carol Kammen and Norman Prendergast, The Local History Encyclopedia (forthcoming).
 

CONFERENCE PAPERS
"The Fanni Micos of Oakfuskee: The Role of a Creek Town in Eighteenth-Century Inter- and Intra-Cultural Diplomacy," American Society for Ethnohistory, November 1996.

Invited Lecture: "Interdisciplinary Investigations and Inter-Cultural Relations: Ethnohistory and Eighteenth Century Creek Indian Communities," Oberlin College, February 1997.

"In the Wrong Place at the Right Time: The Creek Town of Alachua, the British Town of New Hanover, and the Role of 'Outlaw' Towns in the Southeastern Backcountry, 1750s-1770s," Northwestern American Studies Association, April 1997.

Invited Lecture: "'Peculiarly Connected': The Creek Town of Oakfuskee and the Evolution of the Eighteenth-Century Southeastern Backcountry," the Huntington Library, December 1997.

"White & Clean" & Contested: Creek Towns, Trading Paths, and Diplomatic Networks in the Aftermath of the Seven Years' War," the Fifth Annual Conference of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, June 1999.

"The ‘Great Old Path'?: Native Communities and Creek-British Relations," American Society for Ethnohistory, October 1999.