Willard Hughes Rollings
| Willard Hughes Rollings | |
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| Born |
September 8, 1948 Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico, United States |
| Died | July 30, 2008 (aged 59) Paradise, Clark County, Nevada |
| Residence | Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada |
| Alma mater | Texas Tech University |
| Occupation | Historian of Native Americans |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Williams-Rollings (deceased) |
| Parent(s) | Ira and Georgia Luella Rollings |
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(1) Rollings wrote two books each on the history of the Osage Nation and Comanche tribes. (2) Rollings served nearly two decades on the faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. |
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(1) Rollings wrote two books each on the history of the Osage Nation and Comanche tribes.
Willard Hughes Rollings (September 8, 1948 – July 30, 2008) was a scholar of Native American history and of the Māori, the indigenous people of New Zealand.
Rollings was born in Farmington in northwestern New Mexico, to Ira Rollings and Georgia Luella Rollings (1918–1987). He was reared and graduated from high school in Socorro in the Rio Grande Valley of west central New Mexico. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1971 and his Master of Arts in 1975, both in history, from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces and his Ph.D. in 1983 from Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He was appointed to the history faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in 1989 and became a full professor since 2005. Previously, he taught at Missouri State University in Springfield, Texas Tech, and at high schools in Socorro and New Laguna, New Mexico, and Valencia, Venezuela.
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