Rebecca S. Wingo is a settler-scholar of the Indigenous and American West and the director of public history at the University of Cincinnati, where she is also an associate professor of history. Broadly (and rather eclectically), she studies houses: homesteads in the West, houses replacing tipis on the Crow Reservation in Montana, and the use of eminent domain to displace Black citizens for highway construction in the 1950s and 1960s. How we define house and home is a reflection of American architectural determinism—the belief that the structure of the house can shape the behaviors of the residents within, or that houses can be weaponized to destroy unwanted communities or cultures.
Rebecca S. Wingo
