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Graduate Coordinator |
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M.A. in History | Dates and Deadlines | Prospective Students | For Current Students | Classes |
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Dr. David La Vere 
Office: Morton 233
Dr. La Vere received his Ph.D from Texas A&M University in 1993. His research specialty is Southern Plains and Southeastern Indians. He has published four books, including The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics and Politics, 800 AD - 1835 (1998, University of Nebraska Press) and Life Among the Texas Indians: The WPA Narratives (1998, Texas A&M University Press). His third book, Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory (2000, University of Oklahoma Press), examines the interactions between the Southeastern Indians who were removed to Indian Territory over the Trail of Tears with the Southern Plains Indians already living there. It won the 2001 Oklahoma Book Award for Best Nonfiction. His fourth book is The Texas Indians, an overview of the Indian of Texas from 12,000 years ago to the present, and was just published in 2004 by the Texas A&M University Press. It won the 2005 Award of Merit from the Philosophical Society of Texas. La Vere has also published several articles, including "Facing Off; Indian-Spanish Rivalry in the Greater Southwest, 1528-1821" in "They Made Us Many Promises": The American Indian Experience, 1524 to the Present (Harlan-Davidson, Inc., 2002) and "Between Kinship and Capitalism: French and Spanish Rivalry in the Colonial Louisiana-Texas Indian Trade, The Journal of Southern History LXIV, No. 2, May 1998. At UNCW, La Vere teaches several American Indian history classes, including American Indian History (HST 336 & HSt 337)) and The Indian Wars (HST 338). American Indians also receive a lot of exposure in his History of the American West (HST 348). La Vere also teaches these classes as both undergraduate and graduate seminars. As Graduate Coordinator, Dr. La Vere serves as advisor to all Graduate Students. Feel free to contact him at the above email or phone number. For more information, click on Dr. La Vere's personal web page:
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