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ASE 2009 Election Results

We are happy to announce that the new president-elect is Daniel Usner, The Holland M. McTyeire Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His publications include : Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in a Frontier Exchange Economy: The Lower Mississippi Valley Before 1783 (1992), American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valleye: Social and Economic Histories (1998), and Indian Work: Language and Livelihood in Native American History (2009) . He is currently working on a book about Louisiana Indian communities during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Paige Raibmon and Kevin Terraciano were elected ccouncillors.

Paige Raibmon is Associate professor of history at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She is the author of Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast (Duke, 2005)and of several articles about Indigenous labor and performance under nineteenth-century colonialism. Some recent work has dealt with cultural meanings and political implications of Indigenous mobility, migration and relocation. A current research project considers the late-twentieth-century relocation of the Mowachaht-Muchalaht (Nootka) First Nation on Vancouver Island and its impact on the community's physical and social well-being.

Kevin Terraciano is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is also Chair of the Latin American Studies Program and a member of the faculty advisory committee for the American Indian Studies Center. Terraciano has been an active member of the ASE for fifteen years. He has served on the ASE nominating committee, and is currently a member of the journal's board of reviewers. He won the Heizer Prize from the Society in 1999 and 2004 (with Lisa Sousa), and the Wheeler-Voegelin Award in 2002 for his book on the Mixtecs of Oaxaca. Terraciano specializes in the history of Colonial Latin America, with a focus on Mexico, especially the indigenous languages and cultures of southern and central Mexico. Some of his current projects involve translations of colonial-era texts written in the Nahuatl, Mixtec, and Zapotec languages.

Brian Hosmer and Jeanie O’Brien were elected to the Nominating committee.

Jean O'Brien is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Chair of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Dispossession by Degrees: Indian Land and Identity in Natick, Massachusetts, 1650-1790 (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and Indians Can Never Be Modern: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England (in press, University of Minnesota Press, spring 2010). She is a co-founder of the new Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and has held numerous offices in the American Society for Ethnohistory Association and the American Studies Association.

Brian Hosmer is H.G. Barnard Associate Professor of Western American History at the University of Tulsa. From 2002-2008 he served as Director of the Newberry Library's D'Arcy McNickle Center forAmerican Indian History and the CIC American Indian Studies consortium. He has been an active member of ASE for more than a dozen years, including chairing the organizing committee for the 2004 annual meeting. Hosmer's research explores intersections between labor, economic change and cultural values in twentieth century American Indian communities. His published work includes American Indians in the Marketplace, and Native Pathways (co-edited with Colleen O'Neill). He is presently working on two book length projects: "Working and Belonging, on Wind River, " and "Indians of Illinois, a Concise History. "

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