Dr. Michael M. Smith

Dr. Michael M. Smith

Education:

1960 Springfield (Illinois) Junior College, A.A., Major: Liberal Arts 1962 Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico), N.D., Area Specialty: Spanish 1963 Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), B.A., Majors: Spanish-English 1964 Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois), N.D., Area Specialty: Spanish 1967 Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), M.A., Inter-American Studies, Thesis: "José María Luis Mora: Anticlerical Cleric," Director: Robert L. Gold

1971 Texas Christian University (Ft. Worth, Texas), Ph.D., Latin American History, Dissertation: "The Real Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna in New Spain and Guatemala, 1803-1806," Director: Donald E. Worcester

Teaching Experience:

1993-present Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University. (See below for course taught).

1978-1993 Associate Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University. (See above for courses taught).

1978 Acting Chairman, Department of History, Oklahoma State University. 1976-1978 Associate Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University. (See above for courses taught).

1970-1976 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University. Taught American History to 1865 and American History since 1865 (including Honors sections), American Tradition and Identity, Non-European World, Latin American Area Studies Colloquium, History of Mexico, Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, Seminar in Latin American History.

1968-1969 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Texas Christian University. Taught United States History to 1865.

1967-1968 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Foreign Languages. Texas Christian University. Taught Beginning Spanish I and II, Intermediate Spanish I and II, 1965-1967 Teaching Assistant, Department of Foreign Languages.

Southern Illinois University (Carbondale). Taught Beginning Spanish I and Beginning Spanish II. 1963-1965 Teacher, Elgin (Illinois) Public Schools. Taught 7 th and 8th Grade English, 9th-11th Grade Spanish

Areas of Teaching Competence:

History of Modern Mexico Pre-Columbian Mexico Colonial Latin America Modern Latin America Mexican-American History Social and Cultural History of Latin America United States-Mexican Diplomatic Relations United States-Latin American Diplomatic Relations History of Brazil History of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile History of Spain American History Surveys

Related Experience:

1987-1994 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Oklahoma State University 1988-1997 Coordinator, Latin American Area Studies Program. 1976-1980 Undergraduate Student Advisor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University 1975-1979 Instructor, English Language Institute, Oklahoma State University

Committee Assignments 1970-Present (*indicates chairmanship): Departmental Committees-

Graduate Studies Committee* Graduate Placement Committee* Personnel Committee* Advisory Council* Scholarship Committee Curriculum Committee* Phi Alpha Theta Awards Committee Ad Hoc Committee on Recruiting

College Committees-

Arts and Sciences Honors Committee* Latin America Area Studies Committee* Scholastic Standards Council Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee Student Services Advisory Council* Living-Learning Committee Area Studies Steering Committee Sabbatical Leave Committee Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee

University Committees-

University Grievance Committee Faculty Council Termination Hearing Board 1978 Principal Investigator, Presidential Challenge Grant to organize and direct "Living-Learning: An Interdisciplinary Approach to General Education in a Residence Setting."

1979-1980 Advisor, Greater Tulsa Area Hispanic Affairs Commission, Tulsa, Oklahoma 1979-1982 Member, Board of Editors, Oklahoma State Historical Journal (Faculty Editor, 1982) 1980 Consultant, "Hispanics in Oklahoma: A Search for Identity," a project funded by the Oklahoma Humanities Committee and the National Endowment for the Arts.

1987 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, Trenton, New Jersey.

1986 Reviewer of "Beyond the Borderlands: The Spanish Presence on the Great Plains," a proposal submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

1992 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

1992 Consultant, Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities/National Endowment for the Humanities program, "Many People--One Land: The Oklahoma Experience."

1993 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas. 1994 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

1994 Evaluator, MS entitled "Broken Promises: Mexicans in the Midwest," for the University of Arizona Press.

1997 Table Leader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

2006-07 Consultant and Scholar-in-Residence for the Tulsa Hispanic-American Foundation's Oklahoma Centennial Program !Latinos Presentes!

Memberships:

Phi Alpha Theta Phi Beta Delta Latin American Studies Association Southwest Social Science Association Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies Association of Borderlands Scholars

Professional Activities: Papers presented at Professional Meetings-

1971 "The Organization and Formation of the Royal Maritime Vaccination Expedition." Read before the Oklahoma Association of College History Professors, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1973 "Mexican Machismo: Essence, Facade, or Anachronism." Read before the Oklahoma Academy of Science, Southwestern State University, Weatherford, Oklahoma.

1976 "José María Luis Mora: Liberal Historian." Read before the Southwest Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas.

1976 "Francisco Xavier de Balmis and the Spanish Royal Vaccination Expedition." Read before the History Medicine Society, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1978 "Celebration 1976: An Interdisciplinary Approach to General Education in a Residence Setting." Read before the Educational Improvement Institute, Western Hills State Lodge, Oklahoma.

1979 "Mexican Labor in the Oklahoma Coal Mines, 1890-1950." Read before the Mid-American Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri.

1980 "Beyond the Borderlands: A Spatial and Occupational Survey of Mexican Labor on the Great Plains, 1900-1940." Read before the Western Historical Association, Kansas City, Missouri.

1981 "The Oklahoma Mexicans." Read before the Popular Culture Association, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

1981 "Establishment of the Order of Discalced Carmelites in Oklahoma, 1914-1929." Read before the Southwest Cultural Heritage Festival, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

1982 "Refugees from Revolution: Spanish Carmelites and Mexican Immigrants in Oklahoma, 1914-1929." Read before the Southwestern Council on Latin American Studies, Abilene, Texas.

1982 "Establishment of the Order of Discalced Carmelites in Oklahoma, 1914-1929." Read before the Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

1982 " El Cosmopolita : Voice of a Community." Read before the Southwest Cultural Heritage Festival. Stillwater, Oklahoma.

1982 " El Cosmopolita : Voice of a Community." Read before the Western History Association, Phoenix, Arizona.

1986 "Mexican Immigrants and Spanish Carmelites in Oklahoma." Read before the American Society of Church History, Ft. Worth, Texas.

1987 "Mexicans in Kansas City: The First Generation, 1900-1920." Read before the Ninth Mid America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri.

1988 "Magnanimity or Manipulation? Anglo Involvement in the Kansas City Colonia during the Mexican Revolution." Paper read before the Tenth Mid America Conference on History, Lawrence, Kansas.

1989 "Jack Danciger and the Kansas City Colonia during the Mexican Revolution." Paper read before the Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

1989 "The Mexican Immigrant Press Beyond the Borderlands: The Case of El Cosmopolita , 1914- 1919. Paper read before the Center for Great Plains Symposium, "From Spanish Explorers to Plains Settlers: The Hispanic Presence on the Great Plains," Lincoln, Nebraska.

1990 "Social and Political Dynamics of the Kansas City Colonia During the Mexican Revolution: The Role of the Unión Mexicana Benito Juárez and Middle Class Leadership," read before the VIII Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, San Diego, California.

1991 "The Role of Middle Class Leadership in the Kansas City Colonia, 1914-1917," read before the Southwest Social Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, Texas.

1993 "Carrancista Propaganda and Espionage in the United States, 1913-1917," read before the Fifteenth Mid-America Conference on History, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

1994 "Carrancista Propaganda in the United States, 1913-1917: An Overview of Institutions," read before the Ninth Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Mexico City, Mexico.

1996 "Actividades clandestinas en la frontera norte, 1910-1920," read before the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.

1996 "Clandestine Activities on the U.S.-Mexican Border: Jesús M. Arriola and the Reorganization of the Mexican Secret Service in the United States, 1916-1917," read before the Eighteenth MidAmerica Conference on History, Topeka, Kansas.

1997 "Jesús M. Arriola y la reorganización del Servicio Secreto Político Mexicano en los Estados Unidos, 1916-1917," read before the VI Congreso Internacional de Historia Regional, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México.

1999 "Jesús M. Arriola: Agente secreto mexicano, 1911-1923,"read before the Congreso Internacional de las Americas, Cholula, Puebla, México.

2000 "El Servicio Secreto Político Carrancista en los Estados Unidos, 1913-1920," read before the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Puebla, Puebla, México.

2001 "Mexican Propagandist: George F. Weeks and the Constitutionalist Revolution, 1914-1920," read before the V Congreso de las Americas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.

2003 "Carranza's Eyes, Ears, and Voice on the Border: Andrés G. García, Mexican Consul in El Paso, 1914-1920," read before the Texas State Historical Association, El Paso, Texas.

2005 "Andrés G. García: Los ojos y los oídos de Carranza en la frontera norte, 1914-1920,"read before the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico.

2005 "General Rafael Benavides and the US-Mexican Border Crisis of 1877," read before the II Coloquio Internacional del Noreste de México y Texas," San Antonio, Texas.

Chair or Discussant at Professional Meetings-

1975 Discussant, "Modern Latin American History." Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

1978 Discussant, "Modern Latin American History." Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

1979 Chair, "Latin America in the Early National Period." Southwest Social Science Association, Fort Worth, Texas.

1980 Discussant, "Latin American History." Southwest Social Science Association, Houston, Texas.

1980 Panelist, "Immigrant Families--Growth and Transition in the 80's." Family Study Center Conference, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

1981 Discussant, "Latin American History," Southwest Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas. 1982 Discussant, "Latin American History," Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

1983 Chair, "Latin America in the 20th Century," Southwest Social Science Association, Houston, Texas.

1984 Discussant, "Latin American History," Southwest Social Science Association, Ft. Worth, Texas.

1984 Chair, "Currents in Recent World History," Sixth Mid-America Conference in History, Lawrence, Kansas.

1985 Chair, "Spanish Borderlands," Southwest Social Science Association, Houston, Texas. 1986 Discussant, "Latin American History," Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

1986 Chair, "Bearing the White Man's Burden," Eighth Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

1987 Chair, "The U.S. Exercises its Power," Southwest Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas. 1988 Chair/Discussant, "Mexico and Latin America." Southwest Social Science Association, Houston, Texas.

1990 Chair/Discussant, "Mexico, Spain, and the United States." Southwest Social Science Association, Ft. Worth, Texas.

1991 Chair/Discussant, "Latin American History." Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

1991 Discussant, "Mexico," Thirteenth Mid-American Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri. 1992 Chair/Discussant, "History of Mexico." Southwest Social Science Association, Austin, Texas. 1992 Chair, "Military Irregulars in Nineteenth Century Latin American Wars." Southwest Social Science Association, Austin, Texas.

1992 Discussant, "America's Homefront in the Second World War." Fourteenth Mid-America Conference on History, Lawrence, Kansas.

1993 Discussant, "Native Resources and Spanish Expansion." Texas State Historical Association, Houston, Texas.

1993 Discussant, "Latin American History," Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

1994 Discussant, "Twentieth Century Mexico," Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Ft. Worth, Texas.

1994 Discussant, "Spanish Colonial and Mexican History," Southwestern Social Sciences Association, San Antonio, Texas.

1995 Discussant, "One Land, Many Peoples," Symposium sponsored by the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities held at Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

1995 Discussant, "Latin America/US America: Partners for the Twenty-First Century," Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, Fort Worth, Texas.

1995 Discussant, "Spanish and French Colonialism and the Mexican Revolution," Southwestern Social Sciences Association, Dallas, Texas.

1995 Chair, "The United States and the Third World," Seventeenth Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri.

1997 Chair/Discussant, "Conflicts and Crises in Imperial Relations," Nineteenth Mid-America Conference on History, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

1998 Chair/Discussant, "Latin American Diplomatic History," Twentieth Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

1999 Chair/Discussant, "Colonial Latin America," Southwestern Social Sciences Association, San Antonio, Texas.

1999 Moderator, “Publishing: A Panel Discussion,” Twenty-First Mid-America Conference on

History, Springfield, Missouri. 1999 Discussant, "Manuel Gamio, Migration Studies, and the Repatriation of Mexican Migrants," X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Ft. Worth, Texas.

2000 Discussant, "Aspects of US-Latin American Relations," Twenty-Second Mid-America Conference on History, Lawrence, Kansas.

2002 Chair/Discussant, “Historiografía," Southwestern Council on Latin American Studies, Morelia,

Michoacán, Mexico. 2003 Chair/Discussant, "Images of Race, Gender and Ethnicity in the Popular Media," The International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic, Historical, American and Folklore Studies, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

2006 Discussant, "Comparative Slavery Systems in Colonial Texas and Colombia," Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Discussant, "Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrants in the Early Twentieth Century U.S.," Twenty-Ninth Mid America Conference on History, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2008 Discussant, "Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth Century Mexico," Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies, El Paso, Texas.

Seminar Participant-

1980 Reactor, "Hispanics in Oklahoma: A Search for Identity," Tulsa, Oklahoma. 1981 Reactor, "Hispanics in Oklahoma: A Search for Identity," Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1982 Workshop Director, "Hispanic Salute to Oklahoma," Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 1995 Participant, "National Endowment for the Humanities/Oklahoma State University Interdisciplinary Project," Stillwater, Oklahoma.

2002 Director, "Mexican Culture: Building Bridges and Crossing Cultural Boundaries," Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Conference Organizer-

1984-1985 Conference Organizer and Program Chairman of the Seventh Mid-America Conference on History; September 19-21, 1985; Stillwater, Oklahoma.

1988-1989 Member of the Program and Local Arrangements Committees of the Eleventh MidAmerica Conference on History; September 14-16, 1989; Stillwater, Oklahoma.

Extension Activities: Study-Tours Directed-

1976 "A Study-Tour of Ancient and Modern Mexico" (Mexico City) 1977 "A Study-Tour of Ancient and Modern Mexico" (Mexico City and Acapulco) 1978 "A Study-Tour of Ancient and Modern Mexico" (Mexico City and Acapulco) 1979 "A Study-Tour of Ancient and Modern Mexico" (Mexico City and Puerto Vallarta)

Courses Taught-

1976 "The Equality Revolution" (Fall--On Campus) 1978 "Ancient Mexico: Myth, Legend, and History" (Fall--On Campus) 1979 "Ancient Mexico: Myth, Legend, and History" (Spring--On Campus) 1979 "Ancient Mexico: Myth, Legend, and History" (Fall--On Campus) 1979 "México Antiguo: Mito, Leyend e Historia" (Spring–On Campus--A course offered entirely in the Spanish Language)

1980 "Ancient Mexico: Myth, Legend, and History" (Spring--On Campus) 1980 "Ancient Mexico: Myth, Legend, and History" (Fall--On Campus) 1981 "Ancient Mexico: Myth, Legend, and History" (Spring--On Campus) 1981 "Ancient Mexico: Myth, Legend, and History" (Summer--On Campus) 1981 "Ancient Mexico: Myth, Legend, and History" (Fall--On Campus) 1981 "Twentieth Century Latin America" (Summer--Vance AFB) 1981 "Ethnic Experience in Oklahoma" (Fall--On Campus) 1981 "Ethnic Experience in Oklahoma" (Summer--On Campus) 1985 "Ancient Mexico," (Summer--On Campus, Elderhostel Program) 1986 "American History, 1492-1877" (Spring Intersession–On Campus) 1987 "American History, 1492-1877" (Spring Intersession–On Campus) 1988 "American History, 1492-1877" (Spring Intersession–On Campus) 1989 "American History, 1492-1877" (Spring Intersession–On Campus) 1989 "Mexico and the United States: Distant Neighbors." OSU Elderhostel Program (Fall--On Campus)

1990 "American History, 1492-1877" (Spring Intersession, On Campus) 1993 "Ancient Mexico: Myth Legend and History." OSU Elderhostel Program (Spring--On Campus)

Speeches and Invited Lectures:

1971 "The Conquest of Mexico," AAUW, Stillwater, Oklahoma 1973 "Revolution in Latin America," AAUW, Stillwater, Oklahoma 1974 "Salvador Allende and Chile," AAUW, Stillwater, Oklahoma 1976 "Hernan Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico," Stillwater, Philatelic Society, Stillwater, Oklahoma

1977 "The Role of Academic Achievement in Fraternity Life," Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity Scholarship Banquet, Stillwater, Oklahoma 1979 "The United States and Latin America: A Changing Relationship," Pan American Women's Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma

1979 "Los Mexicanos en Oklahoma," Greater Tulsa Area Hispanic Affairs Commission, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1979 "Educational Opportunities for Hispanics in Oklahoma," Greater Tulsa Area Hispanic Affairs Commission, Tulsa, Oklahoma

1980 "The Mexicanos en Oklahoma," Pan American Day, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

1980 "Los Mexicanos en Oklahoma," Fiesta Mexicana, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1980 "Los Mexicanos en Oklahoma," La Tardeada Mexicana, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 1980 "La Experiencia Mexicana en Oklahoma," Programa de la Gente, Tulsa, Oklahoma 1980 "Mexicans in Oklahoma," Lawton Public Library, Lawton, Oklahoma 1980 "The Rise of the Ethnics," Museum of the Western Prairie, Altus, Oklahoma 1980 "Mexican Immigration to Oklahoma," Phi Alpha Theta, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma

1982 "Hispanics in Oklahoma," Tinker AFB, Oklahoma 1989 "Four Centuries of Hispanic Influence in Oklahoma," USDA Hispanic Month Celebration, Stillwater, Oklahoma

1989 "Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Colonial Latin America," United Methodist Church, Stillwater, Oklahoma

1991 "The Consequences of the Discovery on the History of the Americas," Day of the Americas Celebration, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

1992 "Hispanics in Oklahoma," Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City. 1992 "Mexicans in Oklahoma," Pan American Round Table of Tulsa/Oklahoma Historical Society, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1994 "Hispanics in Oklahoma," USDA Fiesta/Hispanic Month Celebration, Stillwater, Oklahoma. 1995 "The Hispanic Experience in Oklahoma," Hispanic Student Association, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

1995 "Diferencias entre las Instituciones Coloniales de la América Española y las de la América Británica," Hispanic Student Association, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma

2000 "Reflejos de una colonia mexicana más allá de la franja fronteriza: El Cosmopolita de Kansas City, 1914-1920." an invited lecture presented at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, México, D.F., México. 2000 "Espionaje contra los exiliados, 1913-1920," an invited lecture presented at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México, D.F., México.

2000 "Carranza's Mexican Political Secret Service in the United States, 1913-1920," presented before the Phi Alpha Theta Colloquium, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

2001 "The 2000 Presidential Elections in Mexico and the United States," Owasso Public Schools, Owasso, Oklahoma. (March)

2001 "The 2000 Presidential Elections in Mexico and the United States," Owasso Public Schools, Owasso, Oklahoma. (April)

2001 "The Mexican Secret Service in the United States, 1913-1920," an invited lecture presented at the Oaxaca Summer Institute, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México

2002 "Beyond the Borderlands: Mexican Settlement on the Great Plains: The First Generation, 1900-1930," a public lecture presented at Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.