Originally trained at the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire where he specialized in American Indian Studies and U.S. history, Rindfleisch recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma, receiving his doctorate in December 2014. His dissertation focuses on the intersection of colonial, Native, imperial, and Atlantic histories, peoples, and places in eighteenth-century North America. He has written a number of articles, which have been published in the journals of Ethnohistory, History Compass, Graduate History Review, Wisconsin Magazine of History, among others. 12 People February 3, 2016