Jason Cooke received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro with specializations in pre-1900 American Literature, Native Studies, and Critical Theory. His work explores how representations of history facilitate the dispossession of different Native peoples, in particular during the removal period, by presenting settler interests as expressive of the movement of time itself.  His work has appeared in American Indian Quarterly, and he has presented research at the national conferences of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and the American Studies Association, among others. When he isn't thinking, reading or writing about Native studies, he spends his time playing Minecraft with his two sons, watching Star Trek, or playing guitar.