Sean Fraga, Ph.D. Curriculum vitae April 2020 209 New South 237 Sullivan Place, Apt. D2 Princeton University Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225 Princeton, N.J. 08544 1-206-295-0823 [email protected] seanfraga.com 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 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities in a Digital World Program, University of Southern California. Fall 2020 to Spring 2021. Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton University. Fall 2019 to Spring 2020. 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 2020 ”’An Outlet to the Western Sea’: Puget Sound, Terraqueous Mobility, and Northern Pacific Railroad’s Pursuit of Trade with Asia, 1864–1892,” Western Historical Quarterly, forthcoming (Winter 2020). 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 2020 ”They Came on Waves of Ink: Digitally Mapping Pacific Northwest Maritime [email protected] Page 1 of 9 Trade Networks at the Dawn of American Settlement, 1851–61.” For resubmission to Current Research in Digital History. 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. 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 U.S. Customs Records to Digitally Map American Economic Engagement with the Pacific World, 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 [email protected] Page 2 of 9 “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. 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 Faculty development grant, Princeton Writing Program, Princeton Univ., 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. [email protected] Page 3 of 9 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. 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. Date TBD.* 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. (via Zoom), May 19. 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 and roundtables organized * To be rescheduled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [email protected] Page 4 of 9 2020 ”New Directions in the Study of the Pacific West” (roundtable), Western History Association conference, Albuquerque, N.M., October 14–17. 2020 ”Mobility, Settler Colonialism, and Place in the North American West,” Western History Association conference, Albuquerque, N.M., October 14–17. 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,”