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Bio

William (Willy) Bauer is a professor of history and a citizen of the Round Valley Reservation in northern California. He joins UC Law SF as an affiliated scholar at the Indigenous Law Center. He received his B.A. from the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Notre Dame and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Oklahoma. Dr. Bauer offers classes on American Indian history, the history of American Indian gaming and the American West. He is also UNLV’s faculty liaison to the .

Bauer is the author of (¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Washington Press, 2016) and “We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here”: Work, (¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of North Carolina Press, 2009). He has also edited the third edition of (Cengage, 2015) and published an introduction to a revised edition of John W. Caughey’s (¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of South Carolina Press), and essays on California Indian history in the Western Historical Quarterly, Native Pathways; (¾«¶«Ó°Òµ of Colorado Press), and (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

Bauer is currently writing a history of California Indians and working on a family biography, based on the life of his great-grandfather.