CURRICULUM VITAE Sarah Alexandra Carter F.R.S.C. PERSONAL Citizenship: Canadian Address: Department of History and Classics and Faculty of Native Studies The University of Alberta Faculty of Arts 2 – 28 Henry Marshall Tory Building Edmonton, Alberta T6G 1Y1 Telephone: 780 – 492 - 4686 Fax: 780 – 492 - 9125 e-mail: [email protected] EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Manitoba, 1987 Dissertation: "The Genesis and Anatomy of Government Policy and Indian Reserve Agriculture on Four Agencies in Treaty Four, 1874-97." Supervisor: Dr. Jean Friesen. M.A. University of Saskatchewan, 1981 B.A. University of Saskatchewan, 1976 Honours in History EMPLOYMENT- APPOINTMENTS Feb.- April 2012: Eccles Visiting Professorship in North American Studies British Library March- April 2011 Visiting Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London Oct. – Dec. 2010 Visiting Scholar, Centre of Canadian Studies, University of Edinburgh July 2007 - June 2010 Co-editor, Canadian Historical Review July 2006- Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Department of History and Classics and Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta July 2006- Adjunct Professor, Athabasca University July 1998 - Professor, Department of History Sarah Alexandra Carter - Curriculum Vitae - cont'd. 2 July 2006 - The University of Calgary Jan.-Dec. 2004 Interim Director: International Indigenous Studies, University of Calgary, July 1994 - Associate Professor, Department of History, July 1998 - The University of Calgary. July 1992 - Assistant Professor, Department of History, July 1994 - The University of Calgary Sept. 1990 - Assistant Professor and Canada Research Fellow, June 1992 - University of Winnipeg Sept. 1988 - Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Manitoba and Sept. 1990 - Visiting Fellow, St. John's College, University of Manitoba TEACHING Courses taught at the University of Alberta HIST 605 - Topics in the Nature of Historical Controversy HIST 494 - Topics in Comparative History HIST 470 - Topics in Canadian Social History Native Studies 403 – Selected Topics Native Studies 440 – Indigenous Treaties and Agreements ACADEMIC AWARDS Canada Foundation for Innovation: Alberta Land Settlement Infrastructure Project, 2010 – 2013. Co-investigator. (With Sean Gouglas. Project leader Peter Baskerville) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant, 2009 – 2012 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Conference Grant, 2008 Elected to the Humanities Division, Academy of the Arts and Humanities of the Royal Society of Canada, June 2007 Canada Council Killam Research Fellowship, Jan. 2005 – Dec. 2006 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant 2004 – 2007 Faculty of Social Sciences University of Calgary Distinguished Research Award 2004 Calgary Humanities Institute Faculty Fellowship, 2002-3 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Conference Grant, 2002 Killam Resident Fellowship, January - April, 1998 Social Sciences, Faculty Research Fellowship, January-April 1998, (declined for Killam) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Standard Research Grant 1995-1999. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Canada Research Fellow- University of Winnipeg 1990 – 92 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Postdoctoral Fellowship- University of Manitoba 1988 – 90 Sarah Alexandra Carter - Curriculum Vitae - cont'd. 3 Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Aid to Scholarly Publication grants: 1990 (Lost Harvests); 1997 (Capturing Women); 2007 (The Importance of Being Monogamous) BOOK AND ESSAY AWARDS 2010: Silver medal, scholarly non-fiction. Women Writing the West Willa Award for Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own 2010: Honourable Mention. Harold Adams Innis Prize for The Importance of Being Monogamous. 2009: Clio Award (Prairie Region) Canadian Historical Association; Margaret McWilliams Award (Manitoba History); Alberta Scholarly and Academic Book Award; Alberta Book Publishing Book Design Award. Finalist: Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize; long-listed (15 books) for the Cundhill International Prize in History. For The Importance of Being Monogamous. 2007: Joan Jensen – Darlis Miller Prize (Best article in the field of women and gender In the Trans-Mississippi West). 1997: Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America. For The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7. 1990: Clio Award (Prairie Region) Canadian Historical Association for Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy. PUBLICATIONS Books: Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One’s Own. Ed. Sarah Carter. Helena: Farcountry Press, 2009. Introd. 38 pages. The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press and University of Alberta Press, 2008. 383 pages. Wheat and Woman. By Georgina Binnie-Clark. Introd. Sarah Carter. 1909 rpt.: Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Introd. 32 pages. People of the Plains. By Amelia McLean Paget. Introd. Sarah Carter. 1909 rpt.: Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2004. Introd. 28 pages. Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 195 pages. Second printing 2004. Two Months in The Camp of Big Bear. By Theresa Delaney and Theresa Gowanlock. Introd. Sarah Carter. 1885 rpt.: Regina: Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1999. Introd. 30 pages. Second printing 2004. Sarah Alexandra Carter - Curriculum Vitae - cont'd. 4 Capturing Women: The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada’s Prairie West Montreal: McGill-Queen’s Press, 1997. 247 pages. Second printing, 2004. Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press, 1990. Paperback edition 1993. Third Printing 1999. 323 pages Co-authored Book: The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7. By Treaty 7 Tribal Council, Walter Hildebrandt, Sarah Carter and Dorothy First Rider. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press, 1996. Third printing 2005. 408 pages Co-edited Books: Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands. Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack, eds. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2011. The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region. Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortna, eds. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2010. Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West Through Women’s History . Sarah Carter, Lesley Erickson, Pat Roome and Char Smith, eds. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005. Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History. Simon Evans, Sarah Carter, and Bill Yeo, eds. Calgary, University of Calgary Press and University Press of Colorado, 2000. 232 pages Books in progress: “Dividing the Estate: Land Grants, Gender and Indigenous People in the Canadian and U.S. Wests and Settler Dominions, 1860s – 1920s”” REFEREED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS “The Montana Memories of Emma Minesinger: Windows on the Family, Work and Boundary Culture of a Borderlands Woman.” In Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands. Sarah Carter and Patricia McCormack, eds. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2011: 197 – 221. ‘’Hordes of Men of Alien Race’ or ‘Daughters of British Blood?’ The Homesteads-for- Women Campaign in Western Canada.” Great Plains Quarterly vol. 29, no. 4, (Fall 2009): 267 – 286. “Aboriginal People of Canada and the Empire.” Oxford History of the British Empire ed. Phillip Buckner. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008): 200 – 219. Sarah Alexandra Carter - Curriculum Vitae - cont'd. 5 “’A Better Life With Honour:’: Treaties 6 and 7.” Co-author Walter Hildebrandt. Alberta Formed and Transformed, (Edmonton and Calgary: University of Alberta and University of Calgary Presses, 2006): 236 - 268 “Prairie Dusters in the Field of History in 1980s Winnipeg.”The Prairies: Lost and Found, ed., Len Kuffert, (Winnipeg: St. John’s College, 2007.) “Britishness, ‘Foreignness,’ Women and Land in Western Canada, 1890s – 1920s.” Humanities Research: The Journal of the Humanities Research Centre and The Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University vol. 13, no. 1 (2006): 43 – 60. Special issue from the 2004 conference “Britishness and Otherness: Locating Marginal White Identities in the Empire,” Australian National University, Canberra. “’The Cordial Advocate’: Amelia McLean Paget and The People of the Plains.” In David C. Nock and Celia Haig-Brown, eds. With Good Intentions: EuroCanadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2006): 199 – 228. “’Complicated and Clouded:’ The Federal Administration of Marriage and Divorce Among the First Nations of Western Canada, 1887 – 1906.” In S. Carter, L. Erickson, Pat Roome and C. Smith, eds., Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West Through Women’s History (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005): 151 – 178. “Creating ‘Semi-Widows’ and ‘Supernumerary Wives:’ Prohibiting Polygamy in Prairie Canada’s Aboriginal Communities to 1900.” In M. Rutherdale and K. Pickles, eds. Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2005): 131 – 159. “Amelia McLean.” Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 25 1921 –30, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005): 675 – 677. “’Your Great Mother Across the