Sean Fraga, Ph.D. Curriculum Vitae December 2019

Sean Fraga, Ph.D. Curriculum vitae December 2019

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EDUCATION Degrees Ph.D., History, Princeton University, January 2019. Advisor: Marni Sandweiss. M.A., History, Princeton University, May 2015. B.A., American Studies (intensive), with distinction in the major, Yale University, 2010. Advisor: Jean-Christophe Agnew. Certiﬁcations Teaching Transcript, McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, Princeton Univ., 2019.

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University. Fall 2019 to present. Postgraduate Research Associate, Department of History and Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University. Spring/Summer 2019.

PUBLICATIONS Books Ocean Fever: Steam, Trade, and the American Creation of the Terraqueous Pacific Northwest. Under contract, Yale University Press (Lamar Series in Western History). Journal articles 2014 ”Native Americans, Military Science, and Settler Colonialism on the Pacific Railroad Surveys, 1853–1855,” Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 75, no. 3 (Spring 2014): 317–349. Received the Friends of the Princeton University Library Prize for Outstanding Scholarship by a Graduate Student. Journal articles under revision 2019 ”Through the Chinese Arch: The Northern Pacific Railroad, Puget Sound, and Transpacific Trade, 1864–1892.” For resubmission to Western Historical Quarterly. Journal articles provisionally accepted “Settler Steamboats: Mobility, Settler Colonialism, and Steam Power in the Terraqueous Pacific Northwest, 1846–1872.” Selected for a future special issue of Mobilities, vol. 17, no. 2 (Spring 2022), co-edited by Genevieve Carpio, Natchee Blu Barnd, and Laura Barraclough. In preparation. [email protected] Page 1 of 9 Fraga C.V.

Journal articles in preparation “The Pacific Railroads and the Pacific World: American Expansion, Asian Trade, and Terraqueous Mobility.” For submission to The Journal of American History. “Stories in a Muddy Ledger: Using Digital Humanities Tools to Visualize Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade Networks During American Settlement, 1851–61.” For submission to Diplomatic History. Book reviews 2020 Review, Coast-to-Coast Empire: Manifest Destiny and the New Mexico Borderlands by William S. Kiser (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), American Nineteenth Century History, forthcoming. 2020 Review, The Chinese and Iron Road: Building the Transcontinental Railroad ed. Gordon Chang and Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2019), Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, vol. 19, no. 2 (April 2020). 2019 Review, An Aqueous Territory: Sailor Geographies and New Granada’s Transimperial Greater Caribbean World by Ernesto Bassi (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2017), Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 20, no. 3 (Winter 2019). 2019 Review, The Spokane River ed. Paul Lindholdt (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2018), Western Historical Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 4 (Winter 2019): 426–427. 2019 Review, Sailing with Vancouver: A Modern Sea Dog, Antique Charts and a Voyage through Time by Sam McKinney (Victoria, B.C.: Touchwood Editions, 2018), BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, no. 203 (Autumn 2019): 151–153. 2016 Review, The Sea Is My Country: The Maritime World of the Makahs by Joshua L. Reid (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), The Mariner’s Mirror, vol. 102, no. 4 (Nov. 2016): 476–477. Digital humanities projects 2019 ”They Came on Waves of Ink: Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade at the Dawn of American Settlement, 1851–61“ (principal investigator), Department of History and Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University. Launched August 2019; ongoing. seanfraga.com/wavesofink 2019 Editorial board member, “On The Nines” project, Public History Working Group, Center for Collaborative History, Department of History, Princeton University. Other publications “Americans Built the Transcontinental Railroads to Trade with Asia. Trump’s Trade War with China Abandons that Goal,” Made by History column, The Washington Post. Pitch accepted/in preparation. 2019 ”Digital Visualizations of Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade Networks During American Settlement, 1851–61,” Digital Frontiers: A WHA Digital History Blog, Western History Association, Oct. 4, 2019. 2019 ”Elevated Waterfronts: Bird’s-Eye-View Maps and Urban Coastal History,” The Coastal History Blog, Port Towns & Urban Cultures research group, University of Portsmouth (U.K.), Aug. 13, 2019. [email protected] Page 2 of 9 Fraga C.V.

2019 ”Chinese Railroad Workers and the Golden Spike,” U.S. History Scene, May 5, 2019. 2019 ”Princeton Needs New Campus Monuments,” The Daily Princetonian, vol. 143, no. 2 (Feb. 5, 2019): 6.

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2019 Conference travel grant, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University, fall. 2019 Chad Smith travel grant, North American Society for Oceanic History conference, New Bedford, Mass., May. 2019 Digital humanities project seed grant for “They Came on Waves of Ink: Paciﬁc Northwest Maritime Trade at the Dawn of American Settlement, 1851–61,” Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University, spring. 2019 Course enhancement grant for “Writing About Cities: Place and Memory,” Princeton–Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Princeton University, spring. (Declined; course canceled.) 2018 Dean’s Completion Fellowship, The Graduate School, Princeton Univ., fall. 2017 Dissertation research grant, Department of History, Princeton Univ., fall. 2016 Dissertation research grant, Canadian Studies Program, Princeton Univ., fall. 2015 Pre-dissertation research grant, Dept. of History, Princeton Univ., winter. 2015 Short-term research fellowship, Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (N.C.A.I.S.) Summer Institute, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill., summer. 2009 Mellon undergraduate research grant, Silliman College, Yale University, fall.

AWARDS AND HONORS 2019 Selected participant, “New Modern Histories of the 21st Century West” seminar, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, May. (Declined.) 2018 Selected participant, Graduate Student Research Workshop, Western History Association conference, San Antonio, Tex., October. 2015 Selected participant, McGraw Teaching Seminar, McGraw Center for Teaching & Learning, Princeton University, 2015–16 academic year. 2015 Selected participant, Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (N.C.A.I.S.) Summer Institute, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill., summer. 2014 Friends of the Princeton University Library Prize for Outstanding Scholarship by a Graduate Student, Princeton University, October. 2014 Selected participant, N.C.A.I.S. Spring Workshop in Research Methods, University of Nevada–Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nev., March. 2010 Diane Kaplan Memorial Prize for an outstanding senior essay based on research done in Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., May.

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2010 Second place, Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for the best senior essay in American Studies, Yale University, May. 2010 Nomination, Wrexham Prize for the best senior essay in the humanities, Yale University, May. 2010 Selected participant, Chipstone Object Lab 2.0, Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisc., May.

INVITED TALKS 2020 ”The Pacific Railroads and the Pacific Ocean: American Expansion, Asian Trade, and Terraqueous Mobility, 1869–1914,” the Boston Seminar on Modern American Society and Culture, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Mass., March 31. 2020 ”They Came on Waves of Ink: Mapping Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade at the Dawn of American Settlement, 1851–61,” Brown Bag Lunch series, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa., February 18. 2019 ”The Forgotten History of the Transcontinental Railroads,” Museum of Chinese in America, New York City, N.Y., October 24. 2019 ”The Pacific Railroads and the Pacific Ocean: A Reassessment,” Yale Westerners’ Lunch, Department of History and the Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., March 27.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY Conferences organized 2016 ”Water and the Making of Place in North America,” American Studies Graduate Student Conference, Princeton University, October 14–15. (Co-organized with Julia Grummitt and Kimia Shahi.) Conference panels organized 2020 ”Imperial Ties: The U.S. Transcontinental Railroads in Global and Indigenous Contexts,” American Historical Association conference, New York, N.Y., January 3–6. Co-sponsored by the Western History Association and by the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 2019 ”Western Waterfronts: The Paciﬁc Coast and the North American West,” Western History Association conference, Las Vegas, Nev., October 18. (Co-organized with Madison Heslop.) Conference panels and roundtables in submission 2020 ”Roundtable: New Directions in the Study of the Paciﬁc West,” in submission for the Western History Association conference, Albuquerque, N.M., October 14–17. 2020 ”Mobility, Settler Colonialism, and Place in the North American West,” panel in submission for the Western History Association conference, Albuquerque, N.M., October 14–17.

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Conference papers presented 2020 ”Whistling in the Dark: Steamboat Pilots and Navigational Labor in the Pacific Northwest, 1870–1920,” American Society for Environmental History conference, Ottawa, Canada, March 25–29. 2020 ”The Pacific Railroads and the Pacific World: American Expansion, Asian Trade, and Terraqueous Mobility,” American Historical Association conference, New York, N.Y., January 4. 2019 ”The Pacific Railroads and the Pacific World: American Expansion, Asian Trade, and Terraqueous Mobility,” Western History Association conference, Las Vegas, Nev., October 18. 2019 ”Digital Visualizations of Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade Networks During American Settlement, 1851–61,” Western History Association conference, Las Vegas, Nev., October 17. (Invited paper.) 2019 ”Routes to the Pacific: Maps, Terraqueous Mobility, and American Westward Expansion, 1776–1846,” at “The Power of Maps and the Politics of Borders,” American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pa., October 12. 2019 ”Stories in a Muddy Ledger: Narrating a Non-Narrative Source with Digital Humanities Tools,” at “Digital Hermeneutics: From Research to Dissemination,” German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C., October 11. (Invited paper.) 2019 ”Mapping Pacific Northwest Maritime Trade Networks During American Settlement, 1851–61,” North American Society for Oceanic History conference, New Bedford, Mass., May 16. 2018 ”Water Lines: Maritime Mobility and Marine Borders in the Pacific Northwest,” Western History Association conference, San Antonio, Tex., October 19. 2016 ”Enclosing the Water: Houseboats, Law, and Property in Puget Sound,” at “Life and Law in Rural America,” American Studies Graduate Student conference, Princeton University, March 26. 2015 ”Saltwater Settlement: Water, Sovereignty, and Settler Colonialism,” Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies (N.C.A.I.S.) Graduate Student Conference, Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill., August 7. 2015 ”’The Only Chinese Aviator in the World’: Tom Gunn, Race, and Aviation in the U.S. and China, 1912–1925,” James A. Barnes Club Graduate Student Conference, Department of History, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., March 28. 2015 ”’Chinese Birdmen’: Aviation and Race in the Transnational American West, 1895–1919,” at “Race, Ethnicity, and Migration: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference,” Center for the Study of Ethnicity & Race and Departments of History and Sociology, Columbia Univ., New York City, N.Y., February 26.

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CAMPUS WORKSHOPS AND COMMENTS Papers presented 2020 ”The Pacific Railroads and the Pacific World: American Expansion, Asian Trade, and Terraqueous Mobility,” Long Nineteenth Century Workshop, The Humanities Council, Princeton University, spring (date TBD). 2020 ”Settler Steamboats: Mobility, Settler Colonialism, and Steam Power in the Terraqueous Pacific Northwest, 1846–1872,” Colonialism and Imperialism Workshop, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (P.I.I.R.S.), Princeton University, February 12. 2019 ”The Pacific Railroads and the Pacific World: American Expansion, Asian Trade, and Terraqueous Mobility,” American Studies Graduate Salon, Princeton University, May 13. 2019 ”Using Digital Mapping to Illuminate Non-Narrative Sources,” Data Conversations, Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University, April 4. 2018 “Water Lines: Marine Borders, Maritime Trade, and Steamboat Sovereignty in the Terraqueous Pacific Northwest, 1846–1872,” Long Nineteenth Century Workshop, The Humanities Council, Princeton University, December 12. 2018 ”Borders and the Wet West: Indigenous Treaties, Marine Boundaries, and Annexation Schemes in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Pacific Northwest,” Colonialism and Imperialism Workshop, P.I.I.R.S., Princeton University, April 5. 2017 ”Harbors and the Wet West: The Northwest Passage, Commercial Expansionism, and Maritime Trade in the Nineteenth-Century Pacific Northwest,” Modern America Workshop (M.A.W.), Dept. of History, Princeton Univ., November 9. 2017 ”A Watery Critique of Settler Colonialism,” Colonialism and Imperialism Workshop, P.I.I.R.S., Princeton University, May 3. 2017 ”Waterlocked: Connection, Distance, and Isolation in the New Northwest,” M.A.W., Department of History, Princeton University, March 6. 2015 ”Changes on the Waters: Indigenous and Settler Place-Making on the Salish Sea,” Works in Progress Session, Princeton–Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, School of Architecture, Princeton Univ., July 9. 2015 ”’Whether They Are To Be Exterminated’: Native Americans, Military Science, and Ambivalence on the Pacific Railroad Surveys, 1853–1855,” Colonialism and Imperialism Workshop, P.I.I.R.S., Princeton University, March 11. Comments delivered 2020 Introductory comment for Daniel Immerwahr, book talk, How to Hide an Empire, at the Colonialism and Imperialism Workshop, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (P.I.I.R.S.), Princeton University, April 6. 2017 For Sarah Hunt, “Plural Legal Geographies of the B.C. Coast: Struggles over Water, Fish and Jurisdiction,” at “Contested Lands: Territory, Resources, and Identity in Contemporary Canada” (symposium), Princeton–Mellon Initiative in [email protected] Page 6 of 9 Fraga C.V.

Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities, Princeton University, September 30. 2017 For Michael Rawson, “The Nature of Tomorrow: A History of the Environmental Future,” Modern America Workshop, Dept. of History, Princeton Univ., April 27. Workshops organized 2019 Data Conversations in History, Center for Digital Humanities, Princeton University. March. 2015–16 Modern America Workshop series, Department of History, Princeton Univ. 2015–16 Colonialism and Imperialism Workshop series, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (P.I.I.R.S.), Princeton University.

TEACHING Undergraduate courses 2019–20 Lecturer, “Zoom!” (interdisciplinary ﬁrst-year writing seminar), Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University. Fall and Spring. 2016 Preceptor (Assistant in Instruction), “Gilded Age & Progressive-Era U.S., 1877–1920,” Rebecca Rix, Department of History, Princeton University, Spring. 2015 Preceptor, “History of the U.S. West,” Marni Sandweiss, Department of History, Princeton University, Princeton Univ., Fall. Guest lectures 2020 ”Manifest Sparks: Technology and American Territorial Expansion” for “Approaches to American History,” Daniel Rodgers and Beth Lew-Williams, Department of History, Princeton University, March 9. 2016 ”Modernity and Its Discontents: Urbanization, Industrialization, and Corporate Capitalism” for “Gilded Age & Progressive-Era U.S., 1877–1920,” Rebecca Rix, Department of History, Princeton University, March 23.

UNIVERSITY, DEPARTMENTAL, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Member, Digital History Committee, Western History Association, 2020–ongoing. Mentor to incoming graduate students, Department of History, Princeton University, 2018–present. Digital mapping project consultant for untitled exhibit in preparation, U.S. Naval Academy Museum, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md., 2019. Professional Development Ofﬁcer, Graduate History Association, Department of History, Princeton University, 2015–16. Judge, New Jersey History Day, 2014. Department of History representative, Graduate Student Government, Princeton University, 2013–14. First-Year Counselor, Yale College Dean’s Ofﬁce, Yale University, 2009–10. Student representative, New Colleges Advisory Committee, Yale University, 2008–09. [email protected] Page 7 of 9 Fraga C.V.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Historical Association Western History Association American Studies Association Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Society for the History of Technology The Authors Guild

LANGUAGES English (native speaker). Spanish (advanced reading). Chinook Jargon (can read with dictionary).

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REFERENCES Marni Sandweiss Emily Thompson Professor of History Professor of History 302 Dickinson Hall 225 Dickinson Hall Princeton University Princeton University Princeton, N.J. 08544 Princeton, N.J. 08544 [email protected] [email protected]

Sean Wilentz Coll Thrush George Henry Davis 1886 Professor Professor of History and Associate of American History Faculty, Critical Indigenous Studies 134 Dickinson Hall University of British Columbia Princeton University Room 1297, 1873 East Mall Princeton, N.J. 08544 Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1 [email protected] [email protected]

Beth Lew-Williams Andrew Needham Associate Professor of History Associate Professor of History 222 Dickinson Hall King Juan Carlos Center, Room 711 Princeton University New York University Princeton, N.J. 08544 New York City, N.Y. 10012 [email protected] [email protected]

Jay Gitlin Senior Lecturer, Department of History, and Associate Director, Howard R. Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders McClellan Hall Yale University P.O. Box 208324 New Haven, CT 06520 [email protected]

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