Mark Boxell, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- American West, Environmental History, Modern United States
Additional Information
Education
University of Oklahoma, Ph.D.
Colorado State University, M.A.
University of Evansville, B.A.
Background
Dr. Mark Boxell is an assistant professor of history whose research and teaching focus on the American West, environmental history, and the post-Civil War United States.
His current research is on the oil industry in the early twentieth-century United States, particularly in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, with an emphasis on how the production of oil shaped settlers' claims to Indigenous land and wealth. His book, Crude State: Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and the Birth of the Petroleum Century, is slated for publication with the University of Nebraska Press in fall 2026/winter 2027.
Additionally, Dr. Boxell's scholarship has been published in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, The Journal of Energy History, and in edited volumes published by Routledge and the West Virginia University Press. His research has been supported by the Western History Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Business History Conference.
Additional Information
Education
University of Oklahoma, Ph.D.
Colorado State University, M.A.
University of Evansville, B.A.
Background
Dr. Mark Boxell is an assistant professor of history whose research and teaching focus on the American West, environmental history, and the post-Civil War United States.
His current research is on the oil industry in the early twentieth-century United States, particularly in Indian Territory and Oklahoma, with an emphasis on how the production of oil shaped settlers' claims to Indigenous land and wealth. His book, Crude State: Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and the Birth of the Petroleum Century, is slated for publication with the University of Nebraska Press in fall 2026/winter 2027.
Additionally, Dr. Boxell's scholarship has been published in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, The Journal of Energy History, and in edited volumes published by Routledge and the West Virginia University Press. His research has been supported by the Western History Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the Business History Conference.