Ethnohistory News:
2011 Election Results
The new President Elect is Jean M. O’Brien is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where she is also affiliated and has chaired the Departments of American Indian Studies and American Studies. O’Brien has been active in ASE for more than thirty years. She has served on the Wheeler-Voeglin Award committee, Nominations committee (twice), on the Editorial Board for Ethnohistory (twice), and as Program and Local Arrangements Co-Chair (with Brenda Child) for the Annual Meeting held in Minneapolis in 1998. O’Brien is co-founder and Immediate-Past-President of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association. O’Brien’s work has focused on Native New England: she is the author of Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 (Cambridge, 1997), and Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (Minnesota, 2010), and co-editor (with Amy E. Den Ouden) of Sovereignty Struggles and Native Rights in the United States: State and Federal Recognition (under contract with the University of North Carolina Press, spring 2012).
Dan Cobb and William Bauer are our new Councilors
Daniel M. Cobb is Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. After taking his Ph.D. in History from the University of Oklahoma in 2003, he served as Assistant Director of the Newberry Library’s D’Arcy McNickle Center and Assistant Professor of History at Miami University. With anthropologist Loretta Fowler, he is co-editor of Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900 (SAR Press, 2007) and his first book, Native Activism in Cold War America (Kansas, 2008), won the inaugural Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award. In addition to coordinating UNC’s American Indian Studies curriculum, he has served as Miami’s and UNC’s liaison to the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies and as Associate Editor of Ethnohistory. . He is currently writing an ethnobiography of Ponca activist Clyde Warrior.
William Bauer (Wailacki and Concow of the Round Valley Indian Tribes) is an associate professor at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas. In 2009, he published his first book “We Were All Like Migrant Workers Here”: Work, Community and Memory on Northern California’s Round Valley Reservation, 1850-1941 with the University of North Carolina Press. Bauer has served on the board of editors of Ethnohistory, and the nominating committee of the Western History Association.
David Tavarez and Brenda Child have been elected as the Nominating Committee
David Tavárez, an associate professor of anthropology at Vassar College, is the author of The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico (Stanford, 2011), and a co-author of Chimalpahin’s Conquest: A Nahua Historian’s Rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara’s La conquista de México (Stanford, 2010); his other publications include thirteen articles in peer-reviewed journals, and twelve book chapters. He is an ethnohistorian who specializes in Amerindian religion and culture, Mesoamerican ethnohistory, colonial evangelization, and linguistic and legal policies in colonial Spanish America, and his research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Research Institute for the Study of Man and the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies. He is an editorial board member of Ethnohistory (2010-12), and his forthcoming projects examine indigenous intellectuals and their social worlds in colonial Mexico, the transformation of Zapotec divinatory and literacy practices in colonial Oaxaca, and the translation into Nahuatl of doctrinal works associated with the devotio moderna.
Brenda Child is associate professor of history in the Department of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. She received her PhD in History at the University of Iowa and was a Katrin Lamon Fellow at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her book, Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940 (University of Nebraska, 1998), won the North American Indian Prose Award. Child was a consultant to the exhibit, “Remembering Our Indian School Days” at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona and co-author of the book that accompanied the exhibit, Away From Home (Heard, 2000). She is a board member of the Minnesota Historical Society, the Division of Indian Works, and the Circle newspaper in Minnesota, and chairs the American Indian advisory board to the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. At the University of Minnesota, she was a recipient of the President’s Award for Outstanding Community Service and is Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies. Child was born on the Red Lake Ojibwe Reservation in northern Minnesota where she is a citizen.