Background
Rollings was born in Farmington in northwestern New Mexico, to Ira Rollings and Georgia Luella Rollings (1918–1987).
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Willard Rollings
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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 Doctor of Philosophy in 1983 from Texas Technical University in Lubbock.
Career
He was appointed to the history faculty of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) in 1989 and became a full professor since 2005. Previously, he taught at Missouri State University in Springfield, Texas Technical, and at high schools in Socorro and New Laguna, New Mexico, and Valencia, Venezuela. Rollings, who was of Cherokee descent, authored four books and numerous essays on Indian history.
His books are studies of the Osage Nation and Comanche tribes.
He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Doctorate"Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago and a Fulbright Scholarship to New Zealand, where he studied the culture and history of the Māori and also spent time in Christchurch and Wellington. At University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Rollings taught the history of the American West, Native American history, Nevada history, and specialty courses on Native Americans.
He was involved in the establishment of University of Nevada, Las Vegas"s first Doctor of Philosophy program in the history of the American West. Rollings died at Desert Springs Hospital in Paradise, a suburb of Las Vegas.
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