William Bauer is an enrolled citizen of the Round Valley Indian Tribes and a professor of American Indian history at the University of California, Riverside. His scholarship focuses on Indigenous histories in the American West, with particular attention to labor, oral history, and sovereignty.
Bauer has written several books, including We Are the Land: A Native History of California (2021, co-authored with Damon Akins),
California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History (2016),
along with articles published in journals such as the Western Historical Quarterly, Journal of the West, and Labor. In 2024-2025, Bauer served as the President of the Western History Association. He has also contributed significant professional service through roles on the OAH’s ALANA Historians and Histories committee and the American Historical Association’s Committee on Minority Historians, as well as leadership positions with the Western Historical Association and the American Society of Ethnohistory.
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Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr. We Are the Land: A Native History of California. University of California Press, 2021.
California Through Native Eyes: Reclaiming History. University of Washington Press, 2016.
“The Economy of Indian Education in California, 1902-1945.” In Indian Subjects: Hemispheric Perspectives on the History of Indigenous Education, edited by Brenda J. Child and Brian Klopotek. Santa Fe: SAR Press, 2014.
“We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here”: Work, Community and Memory on California’s Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941. The University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
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