Rebecca Shirley Wingo

Rebecca S. Wingo is a settler scholar of the Indigenous and American Wests, and the Director of Public History at the University of Cincinnati. Wingo’s current manuscript, Framed: Housing and Photography on the Crow Reservation, argues that federal housing policy was designed to restructure the relationships the Crows had to the house, to the land, and to each other. In conjunction with the manuscript, Wingo is working on a digital repatriation project in consultation with Crow tribal members. Wingo is currently working on two other projects: (1) a co-edited volume called American History in 15 Photographs (with Lauren Tilton, Bloomsbury Press); (2) and an ongoing collaboration with the Wyandotte Nation to better commemorate their history in the State of Ohio.

Along with Jason Heppler and Paul Schadewald, Wingo edited an open-access volume called Digital Community Engagement exploring model practices and ethical challenges of academic and community partnerships. Their volume won the 2021 Book Award from the National Council on Public History. Wingo is also the co-author of an award-winning book, Homesteading the Plains: Towards a New History. 

B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (History, American Indian Studies): 2005

M.A., Montana State University (Native American Studies): 2009

Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln (History): 2015

2015 -2018 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Liberal Arts, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota

2018 -2023 Assistant Professor of History, Director of Public History, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

2023 - Associate Professor of History, Director of Public History, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Grant: #R25099 Investigators:Wingo, Rebecca 03-01-2021 -03-31-2023 UC's URC Faculty Scholars Program URC-Faculty Scholars Res Awd-Wingo Role:PI $25,000.00 Active Level:Internal UC

Investigators:Wingo, Rebecca 07-01-2022 -06-30-2023 Ohio Humanities Council Wyandot Virtual Removal Trail Prototype - AWARD Role:PI 0.00 Hold Level:Non Profit

Peer Reviewed Publications

Rebecca S. Wingo (2018. ) "'The Forgotten Era': Dime Novels and Ann Stephens' Victorian West" .Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, , 33 (3 ) ,121-140

Rebecca S. Wingo (2016. ) "Picturing Indian Health: Dr. Shoemaker's Traveling Photographs, 1910-1918)" .Montana: The Magazine of Western History, , 66 (4 ) ,23-43

Other Publications

Rebecca S. Wingo, Alexis Logsdon, and Christopher Schommer (2018. ) "Going Viral: Copyright Lessons from Max the Cat" .College & Research Libraries News, 79 (7 ) ,

Going Viral: Copyright Lessons from Max the Cat

Rebecca S. Wingo (2018. ) "'This is All the Home I Now Have:' Deserted and Widowed Nebraska Homesteaders" .Rural Women's Studies Association Blog,

This is All the Home I Now Have

Rebecca S. Wingo and Kalani Craig (2017. ) "What Do Digital Historians Want? Lessons from the AHA's Digital History Workshop" .Perspectives on History, American Historical Association

What Do Digital Historians Want?

Rebecca S. Wingo and Amy Sullivan (2017. ) "Remembering Rondo: An Inside View of the History Harvest" .Perspectives on History, American Historical Association

Remembering Rondo: An Inside View of the History Harvest

Thomas Cauvin, Maria Montt, and Will Stoutamire, et al (2021. ) "Creating Public History Master Programs: International Guidelines" . International Federal for Public History

Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler, and Paul Schadewald (2021. ) "Digital Community Engagement in a Pandemic" .History @ Work, National Council on Public History

Rebecca S. Wingo and Lindsey Passenger Wick (2021. ) "Public History in the Wild: A Syllabus Swap That Brings Digital History into Public History Classrooms" .Perspectives Daily, American Historical Association

Rebecca S. Wingo and Janneken Smucker (2021. ) "Inclusivity" .Model Practices Working Group, National Humanities Council

Public Humanities and Publishing

Rebecca S. Wingo (2020. ) "Inside JOTPY's COVID-19 Curatorial Collective" .History @ Work, National Council on Public History

Inside JOTPY's COVID-19 Curatorial Collective

Tom Beazley, Victoria Cain, and Rebecca S. Wingo (2020. ) "Archiving a Plague Year: Building a Crowdsourced Digital Archive of COVID-19" .Perspectives Daily, American Historical Association

Rebecca S. Wingo (2020. ) "The Job of the Academic Market" .Perspectives on History, American Historical Association

Published Books

Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo (2017. ) Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History .Lincoln, Nebraska , University of Nebraska Press

Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason Heppler, and Paul Schadewald, eds. (2020. ) Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy .Cincinnati, Ohio , University of Cincinnati Press

Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy

Rebecca S. Wingo (2025. ) Framed: Housing and Photography on the Crow Reservation .Chapel Hill, NC , University of North Carolina Press

Rebecca S. Wingo and Lauren Tilton (2024. ) American History in 15 Photographs .New York, NY , Bloomsbury Publishing

Book Chapter

Rebecca S. Wingo and William G. Thomas, III Building Communities, Reconciling Histories: Can We Reach a More Honest History? The Handbook of Digital Public History .De Gruyter Press

Rebecca S. Wingo (2015 ) "Popular Culture" A Companion to Custer and the Little Big Horn Campaign .(pp. 404-422).Hoboken, Wiley and Sons

Lindsey Passenger Wieck and Rebecca S. Wingo (2023 ) "The Great Syllabus Swap" Teaching Public History .Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press

Rebecca S. Wingo and William G. Thomas III (2022 ) "Building Communities, Reconciling Histories: Can We Reach a More Honest History?" The Handbook of Digital Public History .Berlin, De Gruyter Press

Marvin R. Anderson and Rebecca S. Wingo (2020 ) Harvesting History, Remembering Rondo Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy .Cincinnati, OH, University of Cincinnati Press

Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler, and Paul Schadewald (2020 ) "A Letter to Our Future Community Partners" Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy .Cincinnati, OH, University of Cincinnati Press

A Letter to Future Community Partners

Rebecca S. Wingo, Jason A. Heppler, and Paul Schadewald (2020 ) "Introduction" Digital Community Engagement: Partnering Communities with the Academy .Cincinnati, OH, University of Cincinnati Press

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