Max Perry Mueller, assistant professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his book "Wakara's America: A Native and American History of the West."
The NEH Public Scholar grant supports well-researched, popular nonfiction books in the humanities aimed at a broad public audience. Mueller's book is a biography of Wakara (c. 1815–1855), famed Ute horse thief, Indian slave trader, defender of Native sovereignty, and collaborator in settlement.
It will be published by Basic Books, a part of the Hachette Book Group.
