Justin Gage is a historian studying Native American life in the late nineteenth-century American West. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas.

His first book, We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance, was awarded the Outstanding Western Book by the Center for the Study of the American West, the Beatrice Medicine Award from the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, and the Smithsonian National Postal Museum Book Prize.

His research has been funded by fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Huntington Library, the Western History Association, Yale University’s Beinecke Library, the American Philosophical Society’s Phillips Fund for Native American Research, and the University of Arkansas Fulbright College Humanities Summer Research Stipend.

Please visit his website nativeamericannetworks.com to learn more about We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us.