AHS’s Education

PH.D. IN INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

1998
Vanderbilt University – Nashville, TN
Dissertation: “From Aniyuwiya to Indian Territory: Concepts of Cherokee Civilization, 1500-1839”
Passed Cherokee Language Exam with Fluency

AHS as Princess Leia in Tulsa, OK in 1978. Photo by Donald R. Sturgis.

M.A. IN HISTORY

1995
Vanderbilt University – Nashville, TN
Thesis: “‘Charged with Republican Notions’: Western Constitutions, 1775-1796”

B.A. WITH HISTORY MAJOR
and Political Science/Business Administration Double Minor

1993
Belmont University – Nashville, TN
Graduated Valedictorian and Summa Cum Laude
Presidential Scholar

HIGH SCHOOL

1990
Broken Arrow Senior High School – Broken Arrow, OK
Graduated Salutatorian and With Distinction
National Merit Scholar, Academic All-Stater