Shepard Krech III/ Page 1 SHEPARD KRECH III Curriculum Vitae Professor of Anthropology and Director, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Department of Anthropology Brown University (Box 1921) Providence, R.I. 02912 tel: 401/863-3251 fax: 401/863-7588 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION 1967 Yale University, B.A. in Anthropology 1969 Oxford University, B.Litt. in Social Anthropology. Thesis: An Examination of Some Religious Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Context of Emergent Nationalism. 1974 Harvard University, Ph.D. in Anthropology. Dissertation: Changing Trapping Patterns in Fort McPherson, Northwest Territories, Canada. TEACHING, ADMINISTRATIVE, AND RESEARCH POSITIONS 1970-71 Harvard University. Teaching Fellow, Departments of Anthropology and General Education. 1974-75 University of Massachusetts-Boston. Instr (1974) and Asst Prof (1974-75) of Anthropology. 1975 Northeastern University. Instructor of Anthropology. 1975-88 George Mason University. Assist Prof (1975-79), Assoc Prof (1979-85), Professor (1985-88) of Anthropology. Coordinator, Anthropology Program (1979-85). Distinguished Member of the Faculty, 1983-84. 1982-02 American Museum of Natural History. Research Associate, Department of Anthropology. 1988- Brown University, Professor of Anthropology [1988-] and Director, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology [1988-]. Prof of Environmental Studies [2003-08]. 1996,98, National Humanities Center. Faculty for “Nature Transformed: Imagination and the 2000 North American Landscape.” NEH Summer Institute for High School Teachers. 2008- Smithsonian Institution. Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History. GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 1971-72 Wenner-Gren Foundation 1971-72 National Institute for Mental Health 1971-72 Canadian Research Centre for Anthropology 1975,78,81 American Philosophical Society, Phillips Fund 1976-87 George Mason University: Fdn (1976), Res Grant Prog (1979, 80), Ctr Adv Stud (1980, 81, 82), Interntl Progs (1983, 84, 85, 86), Summer Stip (1984, 87), Sem Study Lv (1986) 1978, 81 Wye Institute, Inc. 1981-82 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Shepard Krech III/ Page 2 1984-85 Canadian Embassy: Faculty Enrichment Grant (1984), Faculty/Inst Res Grant Prog (1985) 1986 Grotto Foundation 1986 National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections 1989- For Haffenreffer Museum (selected): Canadian Embassy (1989), RI Committee on the Humanities (1989, 1991), RI State Council on the Arts (1989); Institute of Museum [and Library] Services-GOS (1991, 1995-97, 1997-99); National Park Service (1995, 1997); NEH--Preservation and Access [$700,000] (1998; returned 2000). 1992- Brown University: Wriston Grant (1992), Solomon Grant (1999), Curr. Dev. (2001). 1992-93 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship 1993-94 National Humanities Center Fellowship 2000-01 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow in the Ecological Humanities, National Humanities Center 2004 Pembroke Center Faculty Research Fellowship, Brown University BOOKS 1981 Praise the Bridge That Carries You Over: The Life of Joseph L. Sutton. Boston and Cambridge: G. K. Hall/Schenkman (cloth/paper). 1981 Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade: A Critique of "Keepers of the Game", ed. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Paperback edition, 1986 1984 The Subarctic Fur Trade: Native Social and Economic Adaptations, ed. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. Paperback edition, 1991. 1989 A Victorian Earl in the Arctic: The Travels and Collections of the Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, 1888-9. London and Seattle: British Museum Publications/University of Washington Press. 1994 Native Canadian Anthropology and History: A Selected Bibliography, revised edition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 1994 Passionate Hobby: Rudolf Frederick Haffenreffer and the King Philip Museum, ed. Bristol, RI: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University. 1999 The Ecological Indian: Myth and History. New York: W.W. Norton. Paperback edition, 2000. [Library of Congress, Talking Books, 2001] 1999 Collecting Native America, 1870-1960, eds. Shepard Krech III and Barbara Hail. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. 2004 Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, 3 vols., eds Shepard Krech III, John McNeill and Carolyn Merchant. New York: Routledge. 2009 Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South. Athens: University of Georgia Press. MS Indigenous Environments: Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America, eds. David Gordon and Shepard Krech III. Submitted to Ohio University Press. OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1973 Peel River Journal 1971-72. Groton Quarterly 42(8):15-22. Shepard Krech III/ Page 3 1975 Fishers Island Birds (with Edwin Horning). 23 pp. Distributed by H. L. Ferguson Museum, Fisher's Island, NY. 1976 The Eastern Kutchin and the Fur Trade, 1800-1860. Ethnohistory 23:213-35. 1978 On the Aboriginal Population of the Kutchin. Arctic Anthropology 15 (1):89-104. Reprinted in Interpreting Canada's North: Selected Readings. Kenneth S. Coates and William R. Morrison, eds., Toronto: Copp Clarke Pitman, 1989. 1978 Disease, Starvation, and Northern Athapaskan Social Organization. American Ethnologist 5: 710-32. 1978 Nutritional Evaluation of a Mission Residential School Diet: The Accuracy of Informant Recall. Human Organization 37:186-90. 1978 Review of The Pawnee Ghost Dance Hand Game, by Alexander Lesser. Sociology: Reviews of New Books 6(1):7-8. 1979 The Nakotcho Kutchin: A Tenth Aboriginal Kutchin Band? Journal of Anthropological Research 35:109-21. 1979 Interethnic Relations in the Lower Mackenzie River Region. Arctic Anthropology 16(2):102-22. 1979 Review of The Voice of the Past: Oral History, by Paul Thompson. Sociology: Reviews of New Books 6(2):40. 1979 Review of Hustling and Other Hard Work: Life Styles in the Ghetto, by Bettylou Valentine. Sociology: Reviews of New Books 6(6):161. 1980 Northern Athapaskan Ethnology in the 1970s. Annual Review of Anthropology 9:83-100. 1980 Reconsiderations of Aboriginal Social Organization in the North American Subarctic: Papers from a Symposium (edited). Arctic Anthropology 17(2):1-63. 1980 Introduction: "Reconsiderations" and Ethnohistorical Research. Arctic Anthropology 17(2):1-11. 1980 Matriorganization: The Basis of Aboriginal Subarctic Social Organization (with Charles Bishop). Arctic Anthropology 17(2): 34-45. 1980 Northern Athapaskan Ethnology: An Annotated Bibliography of Published Materials, 1970-1979. Arctic Anthropology 17(2): 68-105. 1980 The Participation of Maryland Blacks in the Civil War. Ethnohistory 27: 67-78. 1980 Review of "Give Us Good Measure": An Economic Analysis of Relations Between Indians and the Hudson's Bay Company Before 1763, by Arthur Ray and Donald Freeman. American Anthropologist 82: 640-42. 1981 Introduction. In Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade, 1-10. 1981 "Throwing Bad Medicine": Sorcery, Disease, and the Fur Trade Among the Kutchin and Other Northern Athapaskans. In Indians, Animals, and the Fur Trade, 73-108. 1982 Black Family Organization in the Nineteenth Century: An Ethnological Perspective. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 12: 429-52. Reprinted in African-American Life in the Post-Emancipation South, 1861-1900, ed. Donald G. Nieman (Garland Pub. Co, 1994). 1982 The Death of Barbue, A Kutchin Trading Chief. Arctic 35: 429-37. 1982 The Banditte of St. John's. The Beaver 313 (3): 36-41. 1982 Review of Hearth and Home: Preserving a People's Culture, by George W. McDaniel. Anthropological Quarterly 55: 235-37. Shepard Krech III/ Page 4 1982 Review of Old Trails and New Directions: Papers of the Third North American Fur Trade Conference, ed. Carol M. Judd and Arthur J. Ray. Ethnohistory 29: 221-22. 1983 The Influence of Disease and the Fur Trade on Arctic Drainage Lowlands Dene, 1800- 1850. Journal of Anthropological Research 39: 123-46. 1983 The Beaver Indians and the Hostilities at Fort St. John. Arctic Anthropology 20(2): 35-45. 1983 Review of Shadow of the Hunter: Stories of Eskimo Life by Richard Nelson. American Anthropologist 85: 201-3. 1983 Review of Alaska Native Culture and History, ed. Y. Kotani and William B. Workman. Ethnohistory 30: 226-8. 1984 Introduction. In The Subarctic Fur Trade, ix-xix. 1984 The Trade of the Slavey and Dogrib at Fort Simpson in the Early 19th Century. In The Subarctic Fur Trade, 99-146. 1984 Ethnohistory and Ethnography in the Subarctic (Review Article). American Anthropologist 86: 80-86. 1984 'Massacre' of the Inuit. The Beaver 315 (1): 52-59. 1984 Land Claims & Political Development - The Case of the Dene. Cultural Survival Quarterly 8(3): 41-43. 1984 Review of Witnesses to a Vanishing America: The Nineteenth Century Response, by Lee C. Mitchell. American Anthropologist 86: 998-9. 1984 Review of Fur Trade and Exploration, by Theodore Karamanski. American Indian Quarterly 8: 267-69. 1984 Review of A History of Alaskan Athapaskans, by William E. Simeone. American Indian Quarterly 8: 269-71. 1985 Review of Dutchmen on the Bay: The Ethnohistory of a Contractual Community, by Lawrence J. Taylor. American Ethnologist 12: 384-86. 1985 Review of Moose-Deer Island House People, by David M. Smith. Ethnohistory 32: 73- 74. 1986 Native Canadian Anthropology and History: A Selected Bibliography. Winnipeg: Rupert's Land Research Centre. 1986 Review of Down By the Riverside, by Charles Joyner. Ethnohistory 33: 347-49. 1986 Review of Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 5: Arctic, ed. David Damas. American Anthropologist 88: 735-36.