Anne Hyde is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma and Editor-in-Chief of the Western Historical Quarterly. She grew up in Reno, Nevada and attended Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts where she majored in American Studies. She got her MA and PhD in history at UC Berkeley. She’s the author of 5 books and has co-authored several others, including two textbooks about the U.S. West with William Deverell. Her most recent book, Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West, was published by W. W. Norton in 2022. Her earlier work includes Empires, Nations, and Families: A New History of the North American West, 1800-1860 (Ecco 2012) winner of Columbia University’s Bancroft Prize and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has served as President of the Pacific Coast Branch of the AHA, Vice President of the AHA, and on the elected councils of the Western History Association and the AHA. Her teaching career started at Louisiana State University. After three years there, she spent 23 years at Colorado College, serving as director of the American Ethnic Studies program, the Southwest Studies program, and the Faculty Learning and Development Center. Since arriving at OU in 2016, she has taught the required U.S. survey in all forms and serves as faculty coordinator to support graduate assistants and faculty teaching that course. She has also directed 14 doctoral dissertations on 18th and 19th-century Indigenous history and the U.S. West. In 2022 she won a Distinguished Scholar Fulbright at Carleton University and served as Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library in 2022-2023.