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EDUCATION

Ph.D.    History                        University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 1996
Advisor:
Frederick C. Luebke
Dissertation:
"Uncle Sam and the Yellowcake Towns: The History of Four Uranium Mining Communities, 1946-1988"
Graduate Teaching Assistant:
US History to 1865; US History since 1865; Nebraska History
Awards:
University of Nebraska Presidential Fellowship (1 of 6 campus-wide)
Warren and Edith Day Dissertation Research Travel Award
Dov Ospovat Award for Outstanding Graduate History Paper
Center for Great Plains Studies Research Award
History Department Fellowship

M.A.     American Studies,     University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1990
Graduate Teaching Assistant:
US History to 1865; Wyoming History
Awards:
Arts and Sciences Outstanding Social Studies Student
Arts and Sciences Summer Independent Study Award

B.S.     History/Journalism,     University of Wyoming, Laramie, 1988
Awards:
Who's Who of American Colleges
 Academic All-American Nomination, College Sports Information Directors of America
Western Athletic Conference Student Athlete Award (twice)
Undergraduate Speaker Arts and Sciences Convocation
Journalism Department Reader's Digest Research Grant
History Department McGee-Larson Scholarship
Arts and Sciences Kuehn Award
Varsity Basketball

FULL TIME COLLEGE TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
Assistant Professor of History August 1997-present

Courses:
The Far Southwest
The Trans-Mississippi West
The Making of the American West
Graduate Seminar: 20th Century American West
Graduate Seminar: Writing the American West
Graduate Seminar: Southwest History
US Survey Since 1865
History of American Photography
Senior Seminar: Sports and Society in US History

Mesa State College, Grand Junction, Colorado
Instructor of History August 1996-July 1997

Courses:
Western Civilization since 1700
US History to 1865
US History since 1865
History of American Sports
History of American Photography
US History: World War I to World War II

Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
Instructor of History August 1994-August 1996

Courses:
US History since 1865
History of Idaho and the Pacific Northwest
History of the American West
 

Part-time Teaching Experience

College of St. Mary, Lincoln, Nebraska
Instructor of History Fall 1992

University of Nebraska at Omaha
Instructor of History Summer 1992

University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Instructor of History Fall 1991

PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS

 Wyoming: Time and Again. Boulder, Colorado: Pruett Press, 1991, 225pp.

 Merritt Dana Houghton: A Catalogue of Views. Privately Published, Lincoln, Nebraska: 1991, 209pp.

Articles
 "Mining the Grand Canyon to Save It: The Orphan Lode Uranium Mine and National Security," Forthcoming, Autumn 2001, Western Historical Quarterly.

 "The British at Big Horn: The Founding of an Elite Wyoming Community," Journal of the West, Vol. 40, No. 1 (Winter 2001): 49-55.

 "Portrait of a Small Town: The Photographic Diary of Neligh's Emanuel Wolfe," Nebraska History, Vol. 79, No. 4 (Winter 1998):150-161.

 "No Longer a Home on the Range: The Booms and Busts of a Wyoming Uranium Mining Town, 1958-1985," Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 1995, pp 483-505.

 "Pen Sketches of Promise: The Western Drawings of Merritt Dana Houghton," Montana: The Magazine of  Western History, Fall 1994, pp.54-65.

 "The Rise and Fall of Big Horn City, Wyoming," Wyoming Annals, Spring/Summer 1994, pp. 10-25.

"Through the Lens of Stimson: Past and Present," Annals of Wyoming, Spring, 1988. pp.32-45.

Book Reviews:
Donald MacMillan, Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1920, in Journal of American History, forthcoming.

Geta LeSeur, Not All Okies Are White: The Lives of Black Cotton Pickers in Arizona, in Agricultural History, forthcoming.

Tom Dunlay, Kit Carson and the Indians, in Journal of Arizona History, forthcoming.

 James Aton and Robert McPherson, River Flowing from the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan, in The Western Historical Quarterly, forthcoming.

 Len Ackland, Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West, in Great Plains  Quarterly, Winter 2001 21(1): 88-89.

Eric Sorg, Buffalo Bill: Myth and Reality, in Annals of Wyoming, 2000 72(2): 41-42.

 Mark E. Miller, Hollow Victory: The White River Expedition of 1879 and the Battle of Milk Creek, in Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 2000 50(4): 80, 82.

Peter E. Pool, ed. The Altered Landscape, in Western Historical Quarterly, 31, No. 3, Autumn 2000: 365-366.

Barbara Vilander.  Hoover Dam: The Photographs of Ben Glaha, in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, 43, No. 1, Spring 2000: 118-119.

 Charles J. Shindo, Dust Bowl Migrants in the American Imagination, in Western Historical Quarterly, 29, No. 3, Autumn 1998: 389-390.

 Stephen M. Voynick, Climax: The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine, in Western Historical Quarterly, 28, No. 3, Autumn 1997: 427-428

 Philip L. Fradkin, Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy, in Wyoming Annals 65, No. 1, Spring, 1993: 58-59.

 Joanna Cohan Scherer, Picturing Cultures: Historical Photographs in Anthropological Inquiry, Visual  Anthropology, in The Plains Anthropologist 38, no. 142, 1993: 107-108.

 Lewis L. Gould, Wyoming: From Territory to Statehood, in Great Plains Quarterly, Winter 1992: 69.

 Barton H. Barbour, ed., Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin on the Santa Fe Trail, 1856-57, in Great Plains Quarterly, Summer 1992: 209.

Conference and Professional Papers

Symposium Organizer (with Max Oelschlaeger and David Schlosberg.), New West Conference, Northern Arizona University, 1999.

Discussant, "US History after World War II," Phi Alpha Theta Session Southwest Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, April 1-3, 1999.  San Antonio, Texas.

Chair. "Visual Culture And Place." Representing Place: A Conference on Language, Literature, and the Arts." NAU.  November 1998.

Invited Panelist. "Picturing the Past." Arizona State University Computing Commons Gallery. May 1998.

Chair. "Energy Issues." New Mexico-Arizona Historical Society Annual Conference. Santa Fe, April 1998.

Papers Presented
"Uranium on the Cranium: The Uranium Boom in Popular Culture," Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Conference, Albuquerque, March 9, 2001.

 "Symbol of Security: The Orphan Lode Uranium Mine at the Grand Canyon, 1951-1969." The Western History Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, October 6 1999.

 "Uranium on the Cranium: Uranium Mining and Popular Culture, 1948-1958." The 50s Turn Fifty Conference, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, September 16-17, 1999.

 "Old West, Nuke West The Strange Life and Half-Life of the Atomic West" New West Conference, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, June 11, 1999

 "The West In Depth:  Stereo Photography and the Representation of Place." ," Representing Place: A Conference on Language, Literature, and the Arts. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, November 1998.

 "The West in Depth: 20th Century Stereo Photography in the American West," Northern Arizona University  Library Employees Organization, Flagstaff, April 1998.

"Good Pastures and Polo: The British Influence in Northern Wyoming," Western Social Sciences  Convention, Denver, April 1998.

"The World is Not Flat: A Historic Survey of Three-Dimensional Photography in the Twentieth Century,"  Phi Alpha Theta, Mesa State College Chapter, Grand Junction, Colorado, 1997.

"Uncle Sam and the Yellowcake Towns: The Effects of Federal Policy on Moab, Utah, and Uravan, Colorado," Colorado Plateau Section of the Society of Mining Engineers, Grand Junction, Colorado, 1997.

"Yellowcake Communities: The Booms and Busts of Western Uranium Mining and Milling Towns, 1946-1988," Western History Association Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1996.

"Uranium Miners on the Cold War Front: Patriotism and Self-Image in Western Mining Towns," Popular Culture Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1996.

"Yellowcake Communities: The Booms and Busts of American Uranium Mining Towns, 1945-1988," Pacific Northwest Historical Association Conference, Tri-Cities, Washington, 1995.

"Portrait of a Small Town: The Photographs of Neligh, Nebraska's Emmanuel Wolfe," Center For Great  Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1993.

"No Longer Home on the Range: The History of the Uranium Mining Town of Jeffrey City, Wyoming."   Atomic West Conference at the University of Washington, Seattle, 1992.

"Picturing the Past: The Drawings of Merritt Dana Houghton." A Wyoming Humanities Council series of public lectures presented in Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Saratoga, Encampment, Buffalo, and Sheridan, Wyoming, August, 1992.

"Portrait of a Small Town: The Photographs of Neligh, Nebraska's Emmanuel Wolfe," Nebraska State History Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1992.

"The Sport of Kings in Wyoming: The History of Big Horn Polo," Northern Great Plains History Conference, Mankato, Minnesota, 1991.

 "The Mink and Manure Crowd: The Founding of an Elite Wyoming Subculture," Rocky Mountain American Studies Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1990.

 "In the Footsteps of J.E. Stimson, photographer." Annual Convention of the Wyoming Press Association, Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1989.

Teaching and Museums:

Frank Dean Collection, Museum of Western Colorado, Grand Junction, Colorado.
     Coordinated the use of the Frank Dean collection at the Museum of Western Colorado for use in a History of American Photography course at Mesa State College in the spring semester of 1997. Frank Dean was the major photographer of Colorado's Western Slope between 1890 and 1940. This project included an intensive study of Frank Dean through research and oral history, the supervision of photograph identification and caption writing, and completion of a scope and content analysis of the collection.

Curatorial Intern, South Pass City State Historic Site, South Pass, Wyoming.
     Conducted extensive research on the construction and identification of the site of nearby Ft. Aspen Hut on  the Lander Cut-Off and learned basic museum organization, accessioning, and display preparation.

Consultant:
Article reviewer, Western Historical Quarterly, 2000.

Advanced Placement US History Reader, 1999-present.

Manuscript Review, University of Arizona Press, 2000-present

Route 66 Southwest Radio Documentary, ongoing 1999-2000, with Dr. David Dunway, University of New Mexico.
 Historical Consultant

Idaho Potato Hall of Fame, Idaho Potato Expo, Blackfoot, Idaho.
     Biographical consultant

Documentary film "The Gold Rush," by Michael Trinklein.
     Historical consultant

Washington State University Press.
     Manuscript Reviewer

1999 Organized Research Grant from Northern Arizona University .  Funded $6,000 for summer salary.  "Completing the Cycle: The Nuclear West in History"

1998-1999 John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Research Award, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University.
     "The Nuclear West in Public Memory." This research grant will examine how Western communities have preserved their role in the Cold War's nuclear history. It will focus on resource development (uranium mining and milling), manufacture(bomb production), testing (the Nevada Test Site and Idaho Nuclear Reactor Testing Station), application (Plowshare Projects and Nuclear Missile Bases), and storage centers (WIPP Site and Yucca Mountain). The project will look at museums and historic sites to determine how the West is understanding its role in America's Nuclear Heritage.

Arizona Humanities Council Mark Twain Chautauqua Program, 1998
     Wrote grant and coordinated seven speaking engagements in four northern Arizona communities for a visiting guest speaker. These presentations were made in Flagstaff, Sedona, Jerome, and Prescott.

Wyoming Council for the Humanities Mini-Grant, 1992
     Wrote proposal, served as humanities scholar, and coordinated with seven public museums and libraries in Wyoming to give the historical presentation "Picturing the Past: The Drawings of Merritt Dana Houghton."  These lectures were presented in Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Saratoga, Encampment, Buffalo, and Sheridan, Wyoming in August, 1992.

Center for Great Plains Studies Research Award, 1992
     Wrote grant to conduct research and purchase images concerning early twentieth century Nebraska photographer Emmanuel Wolfe. Project included identifying images, writing captions, and giving public presentations for the Nebraska State Historical Museum in Lincoln and the Antelope County Historical  Society in Wolfe's hometown of Neligh, Nebraska, 1992.

Center for Great Plains Studies Research Award, 1991
     Wrote grant to conduct research on uranium boom town Jeffrey City, Wyoming. Project included oral interviews, photography, and archival research. This research led to several conference papers and my dissertation and book, 1991.

Wyoming Council for the Humanities Fellowship, 1991
     Wrote proposal to conduct research on early twentieth century artist Merritt Dana Houghton. Project included oral interviews, archival research, and fieldwork. This project led to several public programs, a journal article, and catalog of Houghton's works, 1991.

Wyoming Council for the Humanities Fellowship, 1988
     Wrote proposal to conduct field rephotography of photographic sites in northern Wyoming. Involved extensive archival research and fieldwork. Also included expertise in large format photography, darkroom developing and printing, and caption writing. This project led to a published journal article, many public lectures, and the publication of my book, Wyoming: Time and Again.

Current Research
"Mining the Grand Canyon to Save It: The Orphan Uranium Mine and National Security, 1957-1991"
    Examines the nation's only uranium mine in a national park.

"Touring the Atomic West"
    Examines the public history of the nuclear West.

"Seeing in Depth: The American West in Stereo Images, 1850-present"
     A study of stereoscopic images of the West to ascertain management, tourism, and landscapes as seen through the popular culture medium of three dimensional photography.

"Dudes and Debutantes: The Women of the Folly Ranch in the 1920s"
     A study of a dude ranch in northern Wyoming that was visited each summer of the 1920s by young debutantes from the east. The research is based on the privately published Logs of the Folly Ranch.

Areas of Expertise and Special Skills

Photography:
     Competent in 35mm, large format, and stereo photography, developing, and printing. Also knowledgeable of  Adobe Photo-shop computer imaging

Memberships

    Arizona Historical Society
    Phi Alpha Theta History Honorary
     Nebraska Historical Society
     Western History Association
 

Faculty Advisor
 Phi Eta Sigma Freshmen Honorary Society