Jen Andrella is a assistant professor of History and Digital Humanities at the University of Southern Mississippi. She specializes in the nineteenth-century American West, Native American history, and the Civil War and Reconstruction eras. She earned her Ph.D.in History from Michigan State University in 2022. Her current book project uses Montana Territory as a case study to examine how territorial expansion in the West shaped the politics and policies of Reconstruction as a national project.

Jen also holds a graduate certificate in Digital Humanities and has several years of experience in leading digital projects in Digital Humanities labs. Her DH interests include digital mapping, geospatial analysis, and digital pedagogy. She is the creator of Mapping the Upper Missouri: Visualizing Negotiation, Diplomacy, and Culture on the Northern Plains, 1801-1853, made possible through the support of the Cultural Heritage Informatics fellowship at Michigan State University.