prof. M.J.M. van de Logt (Mark)

Mark van de Logt teaches Native American Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He earned his MA in American Studies from Utrecht University and a PhD in U.S. History from Oklahoma State University. He specializes in Native American and Indigenous Studies, U.S. Military History, the Gilded Age, and the American West. After a post-doc at the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, and a fellowship at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, NY, he taught at Benedictine College and Texas A&M University's branch campus in Qatar.

He is the author of three books: "War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the United States Army" (2010), "Monsters of Contact: Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions" (2018), and most recently "Between the Floods: A History of the Arikaras (2023)"which won the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize for best book in Ethnohistory from the American Society for Ethnohistory. His current research involves linking oral traditions to historical events. His articles appeared in the "Journal of Military History," the "American Indian Quarterly," the "American Indian Culture and Research Journal," and "Wicazo Sa Review."

He also serves as (co-)editor of the University of Nebraska Press's "Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indian" series.