• Ph.D., History, University of Oklahoma, Norman OK
• M.A., History, University of Oklahoma, Norman OK
• B.A., History & Anthropology, Westminster College, Fulton MO

Teaching Interests: Digital Humanities, Public History, American History
Research Interests: History of the American West, Native American History, Education History

• Intro to Public History
• Theories & Methods
• North American Frontiers

• “Lilah Denton Lindsey: Mvskoke Educator and Civic Reformer, This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma, 1870s-2010s, ed. Sarah Eppler Janda and Patricia Loughlin, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021.
• Rowan Steineker and Jeff Fortney, "A Case for Collaboration: Advancing Stalled Games with Student Assistance," Reacting to the Past Consortium Blog, Barnard University.
• “'Fully Equal To That of any Children': Experimental Creek Education in the Antebellum Era," History of Education Quarterly, Volume 56, Number 2, Summer 2016, 273-300. (Winner of the History of Education Society’s Henry Barnard Prize)
• “Beyond Boarding Schools: Histories of Native American Institutions and Social Services in the United States,” review of Carla Joinson, Vanished in Hiawatha: The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016); Julie L. Reed, Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800-1907 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), in Reviews in American History, Volume 45, Number 3, September 2017, 410-415.

• "Reimagining Faculty-Student Collaboration in History Pedagogy," co-presented with Jeff Fortney and Katey Ryan, National Collegiate Honors Council Annual Conference, 2021.
• “This Land is Herland Book Talk,” Center for Oklahoma Studies, Oklahoma State University, 2021
• “Teaching Collaborative Research Across Modalities,” Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2021
• “Bomb the Church? Using Reacting to the Past in the Humanities,” Southwest Symposium on Teaching and Learning, 2020
• Western History Association, 2018, "Reimagining the Way We Teach Research"
• Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, 2017, "Youth-in-States: The Muscogee Nation's Nineteenth-Century College Education Program"
• History of Education Society, 2015, "Fully Equal to That of Any Children: Experimental Creek Education in the Antebellum Era"

• PI for National Park Service Library Internship, Sponsor: U.S. Department of the Interior
• National Academy of Education/Spencer Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018-2019
• University of Central Oklahoma, Faculty On-Campus Regular Grant, 2017-2018
• History of Education Society's 2017 Eggertsen Dissertation Prize (Honorable Mention)
• National Academy of Education/Spencer Institute Dissertation Fellowship, 2015-2016