Prior to becoming a Swanlund Professor in History, Dr. Hoxie taught at Antioch College from 1977 to 1983 and from 1986 to 1998 was an Adjunct Professor of History at Northwestern University.  He is the recipient of honorary degrees from Amherst College (1994) and Long Island University (2000).  He was Director of the Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History from 1983 to 1994 and Vice President of the Newberry Library from 1994 to 1998.   His publications include A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians, 1880-1920 (1984), The Crows (1989), Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935 (1995), The Encyclopedia of North American Indians (1996), and Talking Back to Civilization: Indian Voices From the Progressive Era (2001). 

In 2006 Houghton Mifflin Company published a Native American history text co-authored by Professor Hoxie, R. David Edmunds, and Neal Salisbury, entitled, The People: A History of Native America.  Hoxie is currently studying Native American political activists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and working on a book about the history of American Indian political ideologies.  He is currently Chair of the Executive Committee of the CIC American Indian Studies Program.