BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Rose Stremlau is the Charles A. Dana Associate Professor of History at Davidson College. Dr. Stremlau received her PhD from UNC, Chapel Hill. She is an historian specializing in the study of the Indigenous South; American Indian women, gender and sexualities; families and kindship; federal Indian policy, and sexual violence in American history. She has a passion for integrating the classroom and the archives, student research, team teaching and community-driven scholarship.

Her book Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation won the 2012 Willie Lee Rose Prize from the Southern Association for Women’s Historians. She is completing her second book manuscript on a Cherokee woman who survived the Trail of Tears, participated in the California gold rush, and witnessed the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Look for Barbara Hildebrand: A Cherokee Life in the Age of American Empire in bookstores in early 2025.

The recipient of a collaboration grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she is co-authoring Sovereign Kin: A History of the Cherokee Nation with Julie Reed (Penn State). Look for that in 2027ish. Rose is the founder and coordinator of Dútα Bαhiisere Kus Ráˀhere, Davidson College’s collaboration with the Catawba Nation.