Stephen Warren
Associate Professor Departments of History and American Studies Campus address: University of Iowa, Schaeffer Hall 161, Telephone: 319.335.2064 [email protected]
HIGHER EDUCATION:
Indiana University Ph.D., Indiana University, March 10, 2000. Areas of Specialization: American History with minor field concentration in Latin American History and Anthropology, Dissertation Title: “Between Villages and Nations: The Emergence of Shawnee Nationalism, 1800-1870.” Dissertation Chair: Professor R. David Edmunds.
Arizona State University Master of Arts in American History, May 1994. Thesis: "Shawnee Political Culture in the Reservation Era."
Indiana University Bachelor of Arts in History with a minor in Religious Studies, 1992. Undergraduate Honors Thesis: "Methodists, Baptists, and Shawnees: Conflicting Cultures in Indian Territory, 1833-1834."
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
Associate Professor, History & American Studies, University of Iowa, August 2014-
Chair, History Department, Augustana College June 2011-June 2014
Associate Professor, Augustana College, 2008-June 2014.
Assistant Professor, Augustana College, September 2005—2008.
Visiting Assistant Professor, Augustana College, September 2002-May 2005.
Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University, August 2000-Spring 2002.
HONORS AND AWARDS:
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2015, The Worlds the Shawnees Made
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar on American Indian Ethnohistory, held at the University of Oklahoma, June 2007.
Faculty Adviser, SHEAR/Mellon Summer Seminar Participant at the Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, June 2007.
Best Paper Prize in Native American History, 1996 Bluegrass Symposium.
MEMBERSHIPS
American Society for Ethnohistory, 2011-Present Organization of American Historians, 2015-
TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
Fall 2014:
HIST 1004: 0009: Issues: Communities & Society in History: Warfare and Terrorism in the Americas, 28 Students.
Spring 2015:
HIST 1004: 0009: Issues: Communities & Society in History: Warfare and Terrorism in the Americas, 42 Students.
AINS 2290 (cross listed with HIST/AMST): Food and Culture in Indian Country, 10 students
Fall 2015:
HIST 4249: 0001: History of Iowa and the Midwest (31 enrolled)
AINS/AMST 1049: 0001: Introduction to American Indian/Native Studies (29 enrolled)
Spring 2016:
AMST/SPST 1847: 0001: Hawkeye Nation: On Iowa and Sport (39 enrolled)
HIST 2151: 0003 Introduction to the History Major: Public History: American Indian Museums and Interpretive Planning (11 enrolled)
HIST 7190: 0290: Independent Study: w/Addison Kimmel/History of Iowa and the Midwest
AMST 7085: 0001: Dissertation Writing Workshop (5 enrolled)
Fall 2016:
HIST 1004:0005: Issues: Community and Society in History: Warfare and Terrorism in the Americas (35 enrolled)
AINS /AMST: 1049:0001: Introduction to American Indian/Native Studies (39 enrolled)
Spring 2017:
AMST 2025: 0001: Diversity in American Culture (25 enrolled)
HIST: 1262: American History: 1877-Present (88 enrolled)
STUDENTS SUPERVISED:
Ph.D.:
Co-Advisor w/Margaret Beck: Addison Kimmel (Anthropology), co-advisor, with Margaret Beck
Second Reader, Laurel Sanders (History).
Second Reader, Jeremy Kingsbury
Second Reader: Heather Lee Cooper (History), “Upstaging Uncle Tom’s Cabin: African American Representations of Slavery on the Public Stage Before and After the Civil War”
Third Reader: William Ennis (History), “Hereditarian Ideas and Eugenic Ideals at the National Deaf-Mute College,” defended 7/2015
b. M.A. c. Post Docs: d. Undergraduate Students: e. Honors Students: Kenneth Dofner, “Natives and Newcomers: A Social History of Interaction Between Europeans and Native Americans in Southwest Iowa, 1833-1846.” *Faculty Sponsor: Marie Synofzick, Nijmegen University, Netherlands, 2015-2016.
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS:
White Paper, “Creating a Native American/Indigenous Studies Program for the University of the Future,” January 2015.
Principal Investigator: Shawnee Mapping Project. Secured $26,982 for a graduate student to create an inventory and digital map of Shawnee villages and burial grounds. Spring/Fall 2015.
Principal Author, “Combating the Legacy of Indian Removal,” Global Midwest/Humanities without Walls Research Grant, Fall 2014
SCHOLARSHIP
REFEREED BOOKS:
The Worlds the Shawnees Made: Migration and Violence in Early America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, January 2014).
The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005). Reissued in Paper, January 2009.
REFEREED EDITED VOLUMES
The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma: Resilience through Adversity (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017)
REFEREED ARTICLES:
“Tecumseh and the Shawnee Resistance Movement,” Oxford American History Research Encyclopedia, July 2016. http://americanhistory.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.001.0 001/acrefore-9780199329175-e-309
“The ‘Wilding’ of Global Foodways: Transculturation, Food Sovereignty, and the Way Forward,” The Cultural and Literary Nationalism of the Fourth World 2:1 (December 2015).
“‘To Show the Public That We Were Good Indians’”: Origins and Meanings of the Meskwaki Powwow,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 33:4 (2009)
“Service-Learning and the Historian’s Task,” OAH Newsletter, 32:2, May 2004.
"Diversity Within the Shawnee," Album: Johnson County Museums 10:1, Winter 1997.
The Methodists, the Baptists, and the Shawnees: Conflicting Cultures in Indian Territory, 1833-1834," Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 17:3, Autumn 1994. Republished online at: http://www.kshs.org/publicat/history/1994autumn_warren.pdf
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
“Introduction” (5,600 words) to The Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma: Resilience through Adversity (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2017).
"Reconsidering Coalescence: Yuchi and Shawnee Survival Strategies in the Colonial Southeast” in Jason Baird Jackson, ed., One of the Other Nations: Yuchi Indian Histories before the Removal Era (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012).
With Randolph Noe, “‘The Greatest Travelers in America’: Shawnee Survival in the Shatter Zone” in Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall, eds., Mapping the Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009).
“Tribal Identity and the Ohio Shawnees’ Struggle Against Removal: 1815-1830" in R. David Edmunds, ed., Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008).
“Tippecanoe Battlefield and Prophetstown State Park,” in Frances H. Kennedy, ed., American Indian Places (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
“White-Native American Relations, Diplomatic and Military,” in Paul Finkelman, ed., Encyclopedia of the New American Nation (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005).
“Prairie Tribes,” in Frederick Hoxie, ed., Dictionary of American History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003).
“American Indian Philanthropy, Assimilation, and Christianity, 1800-1861,” in Lawrence J. Friedman and Mark McGarvie, eds., Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History, 1607-2001 (New York: Cambridge University Press, November, 2002).
PUBLIC HISTORY/ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP:
Conference Organizer (with Brian Hosmer), “Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country,” University of Tulsa, April 20-21, 2017.
Historical Consultant/Talking Head: Stephen David Entertainment/History Channel: The Frontiersmen, Fall 2016/set to air Spring 2017.
Historical Consultant, Recovering Fort Ancient/Shawnee Ceramic Traditions, Shawnee Tribe, 2014-
Historical Consultant, Project Archaeology: Investigating Shelter Series, Kentucky Archaeological Survey, 2011-
Historical Consultant, “So Far From Scioto,” a historical play created by the American Indian Initiative, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2009.
Historical Consultant for an international traveling exhibit entitled “The American Revolution on the Frontier,” Missouri Historical Society, 2007-2012.
Historical Consultant, American Experience/WGBH and Ric Burns/Steeplechase Films, 2006-2007. We Shall Remain: A Native History of America --Program 2, Tecumseh’s Vision. Premiered April 20, 2009.
Historical Consultant, Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma. Attended NAGPRA meetings, conducted research leading to tribal land claim in Johnson County, Kansas. Led students and faculty on a two-week summer field school with the Miami and Absentee Shawnee tribes in June 2003, 2004, and 2005.
Historical Consultant, Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. Led students and faculty on a two- week summer field school with the Miami and Absentee Shawnee tribes in June 2003, 2004, 2005.
PUBLISHED REVIEWS OF SCHOLARSHIP:
Colin G. Calloway, The Victory with No Name: The Native American Defeat of the First American Army (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015) in the Indiana Magazine of History (forthcoming).
Jace Weaver, The Red Atlantic: American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927, (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014) in The Historian (forthcoming).
Robert Michael Morrissey, Empire by Collaboration: Indians, Colonists, and Governments in Colonial Illinois Country (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) in The Annals of Iowa 75:3 (Summer 2016)
Sergei Kan, Sharing Our Knowledge: The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016) in Ethnohistory 63:4 (October 2016)
Robert Paulett, An Empire of Small Things: Mapping the Southeastern Indian Trade, 1732-1795 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012) in Labor 12:3 (September 2015)
Daniel K. Richter, Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013) in Ethnohistory 61:3 (2014).
Robert Englebert and Guillaume Teasdale, eds., French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2013) in the Indiana Magazine of History 110:3 (September 2014).
James Laxer, Tecumseh & Brock: The War of 1812 (Toronto: Anansi, 2012) in vol. 83:2 of the University of Toronto Quarterly
Ann Durkin Keating, Rising Up From Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012) in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 106:2 (Summer 2013)
Michael Witgen, An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) in the Journal of American History 99 (2013):1210-1211.
Kim Crawford, The Daring Trader: Jacob Smith in the Michigan Territory, 1802-1825 (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012) in The Michigan Historical Review (Winter 2012).
James Joseph Buss, Winning the West with Words: Language and Conquest in the Lower Great Lakes (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011) in The Annals of Iowa 71:4 (Fall 2012).
Timothy D. Willig, Restoring the Chain of Friendship: British Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783-1815 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008) in Ethnohistory, 56:2 (Spring 2009).
Michael Leroy Oberg, The Head in Edward Nugent’s Hand: Roanoke’s Forgotten Indians (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) in the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 32:3 (Fall 2008).
Stan Hoig, The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008) in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, 31:3 (Autumn 2008).
Patrick J. Jung, The Black Hawk War of 1832 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007) in the Indiana Magazine of History 104:3 (September 2008).
Gregory A. Waselkov, A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813- 1814 (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006) in H-Net Reviews, April, 2008)
David J. Silverman, Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha’s Vineyard, 1600-1871. (Studies in North American Indian History) New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005) in the American Historical Review (April 2007).
James W. Oberly, A Nation of Statesmen: The Political Culture of the Stockbridge- Munsee Indians (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005) for the Journal of American History (March 2007).
Daniel P. Barr, ed., The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850 (Kent: Kent State University Press, 2006) in the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (Autumn 2006).
James H. O'Donnell III, Ohio's First Peoples (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004) in the Journal of American History (September 2005)
Eric Hinderaker and Peter Mancall, At the Edge of Empire: The Backcountry in British North America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003 in Indiana Magazine of History, 101:1 (March 2005): 84-85.
Bonnie Sue Lewis, Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003) in Annals of Iowa 63:1 (Winter 2004): 83-84
Susan Sleeper-Smith, Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2001) and Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, A Gathering of Rivers: Indians, Métis, and Mining in the Western Great Lakes, 1737-1832 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000) in Annals of Iowa 62:2 (Spring 2003): 244-47.
John Sugden, Blue Jacket: Warrior of the Shawnees (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000) in the Journal of American History (September 2001): 29.
Neal O. Hammon, ed., My Father, Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews with Nathan Boone (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999) in Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 299-301.
Jill St. Germain, Indian Treaty-Making Policy in the United States and Canada, 1867- 1877 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001) in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains 24:4 (Winter 2001-2002): 345
Kenneth W. Noe, Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2001) in the Filson Historical Quarterly, 337-39.
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars (Rutherford, NJ: Penguin, 2001) in Florida Historical Quarterly, 445-46.
GRANTS FUNDED:
Lead Historian, Department of Health and Human Services/Administration for Native Americans Grant: “A Search for Eastern Shawnee History, 1830-1945,” ($1.3 million grant issued to the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma), 2014-2016.
Lester Cappon Short Term Fellowship in Documentary Editing, The Newberry Library, Rediscovering Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin’s The Society and Culture of the Shawnee Indians. Summer 2016.
International Travel Award ($900), Office of International Programs, The University of Iowa, December 2015, “Celebrating the Ancient/Contemporary Wisdom of Fourth World" (Natives / Aboriginals/Dalits), Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India
Recipient, Presidential Research Fellowship ($4,000), Augustana College, Summer 2013.
Recipient, Travel Grant, William A. Freistat Center, for research at the UK National Archives, Augustana College, June 2011.
Recipient, Faculty Research Fund ($1,000), Augustana College, 2010-2011.
Recipient, Mellon Foundation Sabbatical Fellowship ($30,000), American Philosophical Society, 2010-2011.
Recipient, Gilder-Lehrman Short-Term Residential Fellowship, John D. Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Fall 2010.
Recipient, Presidential Research Fellowship ($4,000), Augustana College, Summer 2009.
Recipient, Reassigned Time for Major Projects, Augustana College, 2009-2010.
Recipient, Fund for New Faculty Research, ($3,961), Augustana College, February 2008.
Recipient, Presidential Research Fellowship Application ($4,750), Augustana College, Summer 2006.
Recipient, Humanities Fund Grant ($950), Paid for George and Sue Blanchard (Absentee Shawnee), to visit Augustana College, October 2005.
Recipient, Departmental Grant ($9, 916), Augustana College, Lilly Center for the Study of Vocation, Grant Title: “Service Learning in Indian Country,” 2003-2004; 2004-2005.
Recipient, Special Collections Research Grant ($500), Augustana College, Summer 2003.
Recipient, NEH Arts and Humanities Fund, ($6,000) Augustana College. Grant for Service Learning Program with the Absentee Shawnee Tribe and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, Summer 2003.
Recipient, Research Grant, Office of Academic Affairs and Research, Eastern Kentucky University, Summer 2001.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Revolving Doors of Collaboration: A Retrospective on Engaged Scholarship,” Canadian Historical Association Annual Meeting, June 2016 (Calgary)
“The ‘Wilding’ of Global Foodways: Transculturation, Food Sovereignty, and the Way Forward,” at the following conference: Celebrating the Ancient/Contemporary Wisdom of Fourth World (Natives / Aboriginals/Dalits), Acharya Nagarjuna University, December 2015, Guntur, India.
“Native American Migrations and the Transformation of Religious Identities in Early America,” International Conference of Historical Sciences, Jinan, Shandong Province, China, August 2015.
NATIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
Paper, “Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country: A History.” “Community-Engaged Scholarship in Indian Country,” University of Tulsa, April 20, 2017.
Paper, “A Retrospective on the Career of R. David Edmunds: Joy, Mastery, and Narrative.” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, November 2016.
Chair, Ethnohistory and Territoriality: Indigenous Understandings of Space through Time.” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, November 2016.
Paper, “Wisdom Moves through Places: Mobility as Resistance on the Rim of Empire” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, November 2016.
Co-Presenter with Ben Barnes, Second Chief of the Shawnee Tribe, ““When Ethnohistory was a Science: the Intersecting Lives and Legacies of Erminie Wheeler Voegelin and Carl Voegelin.,” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, October 2014.
Chair/Commentator, “Wither the Frontier,” American Society for Ethnohistory, October 2014. Paper, “Deep Time In Indian Country: Exploring Continuity from the Archaeological Record to the Ethnographic Present,” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, November 2012.
Commentator, “The Delaware and the Ozark Frontier, Parts I & II,” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, November 2012.
Paper, “Coalescence and Diaspora at Lower Shawnee Town, 1730-1758,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, January 2012.
With Dr. Brice Obermeyer, “Migration, Identity and Cultural Survival in Shawnee and Delaware History,” at the “Wiping Away the Tears” Symposium at Purdue University, November 2011.
Commentator, “Through Diaspora to Nationhood: The Shawnees in the Early Republic, Society for the Historians of the Early Republic Annual Meeting, July 2011.
Chair, “Shifting Identities: Voluntary and Involuntary Constructions and Representations,” American Society for Ethnohistory, Nov. 2007.
Paper, "Region, Alliance, and the Fate of Tribalism in the Colonial Era," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, April 2006.
Paper, "From Fort Ancient to Shawnee: The Creation of Mobile Mercenaries in the Shatter Zone," American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, November 2005
Paper, “‘Trying to Understand the Self Through the Detour of the Other:’Black Hawk and the Industrial Midwest,” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, October 2004.
Chair/Commentator, “Native Nationalism, Citizenship, and Enrollment,” American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Meeting, November 2003.
Paper, "From Mercenaries to Nation-Builders: The Shawnees and their Neighbors in Lower Missouri, 1780-1820," delivered at the Seventeenth Annual Ohio Valley History Conference, October, 2001.
Paper, “Rethinking the Philanthropy of Assimilation: Shawnee Christian Practice, 1830- 1860,” delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory, October, 2000.
INVITED NATIONAL TALKS
Paper, “Ethnographically-Informed History and the Rediscovery of the Early American Midwest,” Ohio Seminar in Early American History and Culture, March 2017.
“Indian Removal Then and Now: A Retrospective on Race and Midwestern Identities” Toledo Museum of Art, March 2016.
Guest Speaker, “The Shawnee,” Fort Defiance, Ohio Commemoration of the War of 1812, May 10-12, 2012.
Guest Speaker, “Coalescence and Diaspora in Shawnee History,” Fort Pitt Museum, April 16, 2011.
Guest Speaker, “The Lenape Dream of an Indian State: A Hidden History of Indian People in the United States,” Delaware Nation History Summit, Anadarko, Oklahoma, November 2010.
Guest Speaker, “Reconsidering Coalescence: Yuchi and Shawnee Survival Strategies in the Colonial Southeast,” Yuchi History Summit, Sapulpa, Oklahoma, October 2010.
Guest Speaker, “Teaching American Indian History,” Teaching American History Grant Awarded to Jackson School District, Jackson, Missouri, September 2010
Guest Speaker, “Place-Making in Southeastern Missouri: Making Sense of the Stories We Tell About Our Past,” Southeast Missouri State University, September 2010
Keynote Speaker, Delaware Nation Culture Summit, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 2009.
Guest Speaker, “Learning from We Shall Remain: Tecumseh’s Vision,” Teaching American History Grant, Rockford Public Schools, November 2009.
Guest Speaker, “‘Chopping Wood’: Being and Becoming Shawnee in a Global Age,” Western Illinois University, October 2008
“Borderland Cultures: Transience and Ethnogenesis in Woodland Indian History,” Prophetstown Revisited: A Summit on Early Native American Studies, Purdue University, April 2008.
Guest Speaker, The Shawnees in Colonial History, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, Seneca, Missouri (June 2007).
Auglaize County Historical Society, Teacher Training Institute on American Indian History, Wapakoneta, Ohio (June 2007).
“‘The Greatest Travelers in America’: Place, Transience, and Cultural Survival in Shawnee and Woodland Indian History,” Ohio State University-Columbus, American Indian Studies Speaker Series, (April 2007).
Two Presentations & Book Signing, “Perception vs. Reality-The American Indian in History," 2006 NFTM/Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site Summer Teacher and Learning Seminar, July 17-21, Kansas City, Kansas.
Paper, "Shawnee and Quaker Resistance to the Indian Removal Act,” Quaker Genealogy Conference, Waynesville, Ohio, April 2006.
Paper, "Oral History: A Beginner's Approach, Annual Meeting of Oklahoma's Tribal Historic Preservation Officers," Durant, OK, September 2005.
Discussant/Speaker, “The Shawnee: Past, Present and Future,” Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Event, Camp Dubois, Ill, May 14-15, 2004. Invited Speaker of the Joint Shawnee Council.
INVITED LOCAL TALKS
“Illinois in the Age of Jackson,” Hampton Historical Society, May 15, 2013.
“Lincoln, Race, and Slavery,” Illinois Lincoln Academy, Western Illinois University- Quad Cities, April 6, 2013.
Series Facilitator, “Let’s Talk About It: Making Sense of the American Civil War, Moline Public Library January-May 2012.
Guest Speaker, “The Black Hawk War and the Origins of Midwestern Identity,” River Action’s Public Education Program, Summer 2008, 2009, 2010.
Guest Speaker for the University of Illinois Master Naturalist Program, "The Meskwaki: People of the Red Earth," October 2005, May 2006.
Keynote Speaker, Augustana College Celebration of Learning, "The Matrix as Metaphor: The Unpredictable Outcomes of Intellectual Curiosity, May 2005.
Frieze Lecture, Rock Island Public Library, “John Henry Hauberg, American Indians, and the Purposes of History,” November 2003.
PUBLIC HISTORY PRESENTATIONS
Featured Speaker, “Following in Ancient Footsteps: The Hopewell in Ohio,” July 2017, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.
Featured Speaker, “Following in Ancient Footsteps: The Hopewell in Ohio,” July 2015, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio.
Featured Speaker, National Public Radio-Kansas City, February 2015 http://kcur.org/post/johnson-countys-namesake-and-shawnee-indians
Featured Speaker, Old Settlers’ Days, Salem, Indiana Saturday, September 20, 2014
Featured Speaker/Historical Consultant, NEH Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges Grant, August 2013 & August 2014 (presentations in Columbus, Ohio, and Miami, Oklahoma, respectively, through the Ohio Historical Society).
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE/TEACHING
Augustana College History Department Search Committees: Chair, Latin American Teaching Fellow, (2013); Chair, East Asian History Search (2011); Chair, African History Search (2007); Latin American History: 2005/2006 Searches; Women & Gender Studies, Search Committee, 2005.
SERVICE
PROFESSION:
Outside Reviewer, Tenure & Promotion case of C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, George Mason University, Department of History, Fall 2016.
Refereed Articles for the Journal of American History, American Indian Quarterly, Journal of the Early Republic, William and Mary Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, Indiana Magazine of History and Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains, Annals of Iowa
Refereed Textbook(s), “Major Problems in the Era of the American Revolution, Bedford-St. Martin’s, Summer 2009; "America: Past and Present" for Longman Publishers, Spring 2005. Anonymous Reviewer for University of Oklahoma Press (5), University of Arizona Press (1), Bedford/St. Martin’s (1); CQ Press/SAGE (1); Northern Illinois University Press (1), University of Illinois Press (1), University of Georgia Press (1)
Selection Committee, Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize Committee (Best Book in Ethnohistory), American Society for Ethnohistory, November 2004.
DEPARTMENTS:
History Department representative, Faculty Assembly, Fall 2015-December 2016
Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall 2016), Sabbatical Replacement for Nick Yablon, Department of American Studies.
Tom Oates, Tenure and Promotion Committee, Department of American Studies, Fall 2016
Latino History Search Committee, Fall 2015, Fall 2016
American Studies, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Spring 2016
Ad Hoc Committee on improving the visibility of Sport Studies/American Studies, 2015-2016 academic year
Department Meeting Scribe, History Department, 2014-2015.
American Indian/Native Studies Steering Committee, 2014-.
American Studies Marketing Group, 2014-2015.
COLLEGE:
Nominee, CLAS Undergraduate Education Policy and Curriculum Committee, Spring 2017
CLAS Scholarship Committee, Fall 2016-
Editorial Board, University of Iowa Press, 2016-
Internal Reviewer, Five-Year Review Committee, Asian & Slavic Languages & Literatures Department, Spring 2016.
Place-Based Inclusion Working Group, Obermann Center, 2015-2016
IDEAL (Iowa Digital Engagement & Learning/SITA (Student Instructional Technology Assistance) Consultations with Tom Keegan, Matthew Gilchrist, Carolyn A.S. Colbow, and Gregory Johnson (ITS), 2014-2015. With their assistance, I “flipped” HIST 1004: Warfare and Terrorism in the Americas and created a course blog.
TILE (Transform, Interact, Learn, Engage) Training, March 13, 2015
4CAST Conference Participant/”Wrangler,” January 16 2015. Theme: Who is in Control? Students as Creators, Collaborators, and "Consumers" of their Education
Food for Thought Working Group, Obermann Center, 2014-2015
Supervisor, “A Search for Eastern Shawnee History, Digitization Project, July 2014-May 2015. Weekly meetings, one hour in length, with graduate student research assistants, Stephanie Grossnickle-Batterton, Jason Sprague, and Stacey Moultry, and, from July to August, UI undergraduate Thom Johnson. All four students are employed by the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma.
COMMUNITY:
Outside Evaluator for Humanities Iowa, CommUniversity Program, February 2006.