William Bauer
Affiliated Scholar - Indigenous Law Center
Bio
William (Willy) Bauer is a professor of history and a citizen of the Round Valley Reservation in northern California. He joins UC Law SF as an affiliated scholar at the Indigenous Law Center. He received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Bauer offers classes on American Indian history, the history of American Indian gaming and the American West. He is also UNLV’s faculty liaison to the .
Bauer is the author of (University of Washington Press, 2016) and “We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here”: Work, (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). He has also edited the third edition of (Cengage, 2015) and published an introduction to a revised edition of John W. Caughey’s (University of South Carolina Press), and essays on California Indian history in the Western Historical Quarterly, Native Pathways; (University of Colorado Press), and (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
Bauer is currently writing a history of California Indians and working on a family biography, based on the life of his great-grandfather.