Dr. John R. Legg is an ethnohistorian whose work bridges Indigenous history, public history, digital humanities, and community-engaged scholarship. He currently teaches as contingent faculty at Loyola University New Orleans and at Lamar University. For the 2026-2031 term, Legg serves as an Affiliate Fellow for the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Dr. John R. Legg is an ethnohistorian whose work bridges Indigenous history, public history, digital humanities, and community-engaged scholarship. He currently teaches as contingent faculty at Loyola University New Orleans and at Lamar University. For the 2026-2031 term, Legg serves as an Affiliate Fellow for the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
He has two book projects under contract:
A Line Worth Crossing: Dakota Mobility in Mni Sota Makoce after the US-Dakota War, under advanced contract with the University of Nebraska Press.
Degrees of Liberation: Public History, Campus Activism, and the Fight for Educational Justice, under advanced contract in the Praxis: Theory in Action series with the State University of New York Press.