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TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Courses Taught:
U.S. History to 1865; U.S. History since 1865, Native
American History, Historical Research, and Success
Central
Instructor,
Department of History:
University of Central, 2006-2008.
Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City,
2007-2008.
Oklahoma City Community College, 2007-
2008.
Graduate Instructor,
Historical Research, University of Central Oklahoma,
Spring 2006.
Graduate Teaching
Assistant, American History
Since the Civil War, University of Central
Oklahoma, Fall 2005.
Undergraduate Research Assistant,
Dr. T.H. Baughman, History of Holland, University of
Central Oklahoma, Spring 2004.
Undergraduate Internship in Academic
Teaching, Dr. T.H. Baughman,
Scandinavian and Dutch History, University of Central
Oklahoma, Spring 2004.
Undergraduate Research Assistant,
Dr. T.H. Baughman, History of Norway, University of
Central Oklahoma, Summer 2003.
GRANTS,
SCHOLARSHIPS AND AWARDS
·
Southern Methodist
University, Department of History, Ph.D. Fellowship,
2008-2013.
·
Clements Center for
Southwest Studies, the Virginia G. Piper Charitable
Foundation Research Grant, 2011.
·
Clements Center for
Southwest Studies, The McElhaney Family Foundation
Fellowship, 2010.
·
Southern Methodist
University, Graduate Studies Research Award, 2008, 2009,
2010, 2011.
·
Oklahoma Thesis of the Year
2006, by Oklahoma Historical Society.
·
Outstanding Graduate
Student of 2005-2006, by Jackson College of Graduate
Studies and Research.
·
Edward Everett Dale Outstanding Graduate
Award of 2005-2006, by the Department of History
and Geography.
·
Mary Elizabeth Morelli LA Outstanding
Graduate Student of 2005-2006, College of Liberal Arts.
·
Emerging Leaders
Scholarship, Mountain-Plains Museums Association, Award,
September 2006.
·
Jackson College of Graduate
Studies and Research Grant, Spring 2006.
·
Kremm Fund, Travel and
Research Funding Award, 2004- 2006.
·
Liberal Arts Travel Fund,
Award, March 2006.
·
Sarkeys Foundation Research
Grant, Award, Fall 2004, Spring 2005.
·
Sons of Norway, Heritage
Research Scholarship, University of Oslo, Award, Summer
2004.
·
Student Creative Research
Grant, Joe Jackson College of Graduate Studies,
University of Central Oklahoma, 2004-2005 and Travel
Grant for archival research in London. “Seeking
Independence: Norway’s Struggle for International
Recognition in 1905”
·
President Academic
Scholarship, Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City,
Award, 2001-02.
NATIONAL
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Western History Association Conference,
October 13-16, 2010, Lake Tahoe, Nevada; “Education,
Race and Identity: A Case Study Among Early Twentieth
Century Indian Art.”
American Society of Ethnohistory
Conference, November 7-10, 2007, Tulsa, Oklahoma; “The
New Deal Sponsorship of Indian Art in Oklahoma.”
Western History Association Conference,
October 3-6, 2007, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; “Southern
Plains Indian Art Renaissance: Oklahoma in the 1920s.”
Southwest Art History Conference XIX,
October 10-12, 2007, Taos, New Mexico; “Jack Hokeah and
the Artistic Marriage of Two Native Cultures.”
American Society of Ethnohistory
Conference, November 1-5, 2006, College of William and
Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia; “The Native American Art
Renaissance in Oklahoma: 1920-30s.”
Western Social Science Association, April
2006, Phoenix, Arizona; “Kiowa Five: Traditional and
Groundbreaking Artists.”
Western Social Science Association, April
2005, Albuquerque, New Mexico; “Oscar Jacobson; A
Swedish Cowboy Who Encouraged American Indian Art.”
Western Social Science Association, April
2004, Salt Lake City, Utah; “Norway’s Internal Conflict:
Norway and the European Economic Community 1972.”
STATE AND REGIONAL CONFERENCE
PRESENTATIONS
Oklahoma Museum Association, September
2006, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; “Discovering Sources,
Telling Stories: Historical Research in the Museum.”
Mountain-Plains Museums Association
Annual Meeting, September, 2006, Taos, New Mexico; “The
Jacobson House: A Native Art Center and its Relationship
with New Mexico.”
Oklahoma Historical
Society Annual Meeting, April, 2006, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma;
“Kiowa Indian Artists Make International
Headlines.”
INVITED LECTURER
The
National New Deal Preservation Association and the
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture Symposium, Santa Fe,
4-6 April 2008 “New Deal: Indian Arts and Culture in New
Mexico.”
University of Texas of Arlington’s
History Department, Phi Alpha Theta, 8 November 2006,
“Oscar Jacobson and the Kiowa Five: Change Art
Appreciation and Leave a Lasting Legacy.”
Plains Indian Museum Seminar, October
2006, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming;
“Kiowa Artists Preserve Dance and Regalia Through Art.”
PUBLIC
PRESENTATIONS, INTERVIEWS, AND CURATORIAL WORK
Jack Hokeah: Kiowa Influence Among the
Southwest Indians 1930s: Guest Curator.
“Scandinavian Cultural Exhibition:
Sweden” Gallery Talk Presented at the Jacobson House, 19
November 2006.
Presentation
of “Five Generations of Woman Graduates at the
University of Central Oklahoma”, at the Liberal Arts
Symposium, 12 April 2006.
Presentation of the “Kiowa Five and One:
History of Lois Smoky and the Kiowa Five” at the
Jacobson House: Native Art Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 23
March 2006.
Interview with National Public Radio:
KGOU, in relation to researching and writing a book
about Oscar Jacobson and in addition to discussing the
exhibition on Kiowa Five and Lois Smoky, aired, 5 March
2006.
Interview with The Daily Oklahoman
on the subject of Oscar Jacobson and the Kiowa Five,
March 2006.
Interview with the State Regents Public
Affairs Office’s Radio Program about the
Oklahoma
Scholar-Leadership Enrichment Program discussing Powwow
Culture Native American Performance and Meaning, 16
February 2006.
Presentation
of “Oscar B. Jacobson: A Swedish Cowboy Who Influenced
Indian Art” at the University of Central Oklahoma,
sponsored by the University of Central Oklahoma’s
Department of History and Geography and the Edmond
Historical Society, 8 February 2006.
Presentation about Oscar Jacobson and his
birth place Vestervik, Sweden, and childhood in
Lindsborg, Kansas, for the Scandinavian Club, Oklahoma
City, February 2005.
Presentation about Norwegian Life and
Society for the Scandinavian Cultural and Interest
Group, Norman, Oklahoma, October 2004.
PUBLICATIONS
Book Reviews
Review
of The Life
of Elaine Goodale Eastman, by
Theodore D. Sargent,
(Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press, 2005) in Chronicles of Oklahoma
84 (2006-07).
Articles
Art Focus
Oklahoma:
o
“Americana Art”
January/February 2008.
o
“Creating a Dialogue
through Art: OklaDADA’s Voice in the Centennial,”
September/October 2007.
o
“Partnering Up for the
Arts: Heart and Soul of the Great Plains,” July/August
2007.
o
“Public Works Art Projects
Inspire Murals Today,” July/August 2006.
o
“Early Pow-wow Culture
Preserved in Art,” July/August 2006.
o
“Smiles: Humor in Art,”
May/June 2006.
o
“N. Scott Momaday: First
Indian Pulitzer Author, Scholar and Renowned Artist at
the Jacobson House,” Norman, Oklahoma, May/June 2006.
Mountain-Plains Museums Association,
Newsgram Magazine,
o
“Carriers of Native Knowledge: Objects, Themes, and
Interpretations at the national Museum of the American
Indian,” Session Review, Winter 2006.
o
“Emerging Leaders Scholarship Essay,” Winter 2006.
Workbook
Workbook for American Passage, by
Anne Allbright, Pam Balote, and John Elder, 2007.
INTERNSHIPS AND
VOLUNTEER WORK
Jacobson House,
Historian/Researcher and Grant Writer, Summer,
2004-present.
Oklahoma Visual Arts
Coalition, Assistant Editor and Writer for Art Focus:
Oklahoma, Spring 2006.
45th
Infantry Museum, Assistant Archivist and Librarian,
Summer 2005.
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIPS
Western History
Association Western
Social Science Association
American Studies
Association American Society of
Ethnohistory
Oklahoma Museum
Association Mountain Plains Museum
Association
STUDY ABROAD
Southern Methodist
University, Oaxaca, Mexico, 26 December 2009 - 14
January 2010.
Fundación PLFM Language School, Antigua,
Guatemala, April-July 2008.
University of Oslo, Norway, June-July
2006.
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