Ann Ostendorf, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of History
Dr. Ann Ostendorf is currently working on the histories of the Roma (Gypsy) diasporas in the Atlantic World, including in the colonial Chesapeake, French and Spanish Louisiana, and the nineteenth-century United States. Her scholarly interests also include...
On Sabbatical Fall 2019 and Spring 2020
ostendorf@gonzaga.edu
Ph.D. in History, Marquette University, 2009
M.A. in History, Marquette University, 2000
B.A. in History with Honors, Saint Louis University, 1998
History 201: United States History I
History 301: Historical Methods-American Slavery
History 359: cross-listed NTAS 359: America: Invasion to Rebellion
History 352: The Early American Republic
History 353: The US During the Civil War and Reconstruction
History 366, cross-listed VART 406: A History of American Cultures and Ideas
History 401: Senior Thesis Seminar
Dr. Ann Ostendorf is currently working on the histories of the Roma (Gypsy) diasporas in the Atlantic World, including in the colonial Chesapeake, French and Spanish Louisiana, and the nineteenth-century United States. Her scholarly interests also include cultural history, studies of ethnicity and race, early Native American history, and the lower Mississippi River region. She enjoys yoga, vegetarian soul food, Fútbol Club Barcelona, world music, travel and the outdoors.
"Contextualizing American Gypsies: Experiencing Criminality in the Colonial Chesapeake." Maryland Historical Magazine (Spring/Summer 2018).
"'An Egiptian and noe Xtian Woman': Gypsy Identity and Race Law in Early America." Journal of Gypsy Studies 1 (2017): 5-15.
Sounds American: National Identity and the Music Cultures of the Lower Mississippi River Valley, 1800-1860. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2011.