Heidi J. Osselaer's fields of research are women's history and Southwest history. She has taught at Arizona State University, Scottsdale Community College, Phoenix College. She was honored in 2011 for her contributions to Arizona history with the Sharlot Hall Award.
In April of 2009, the University of Arizona Press published her first book, "Winning Their Place: Arizona Women in Politics, 1883-1950." Reviewers have praised it for its pioneering research in the field of women and politics. Melanie Gustafson wrote in the Journal of American History:“ it is an astutely detailed and well-reasoned analysis of the personal and structural factors that brought women into politics and allowed them to succeed.”
In spring 2018, University of Oklahoma Press publshed her second book, "Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight: Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918." Historian Carlos Schwantes writes, "I know of no other book quite like this one. In Heidi Osselaer's capable hands, a seemingly minor confrontation in a remote canyon in the mountains of eastern Arizona becomes a mirror reflecting many larger issues that gripped early-twentieth-century America. This is nonfiction at its finest."
She served as development producer and historical consultant for the 2015 multi-award-winning documentary film, “Power’s War,” about Arizona’s deadliest gunfight.
She is a research consultant for Katrina Parks's documentary, "Route 66 Women: The Untold Story of the Mother Road," (2020).
She has made appearances on Horizon (PBS Phoenix), C-SPAN 3, KJZZ (NPR Phoenix), and Blood Feuds: Johnson County War (American Heroes Channel), among others, and published in True West magazine and numerous newspapers. She is currently working on the murder of Sheriff Pat Garrett of New Mexico and her next project is the women of Tombstone.
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