CURRICULUM VITAE - Department of History



Victoria A. O. Smith

617 Oldfather Hall

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Lincoln, NE, 68508-0327

(402) 472-2417

vsmith4@unl.edu

EDUCATION

August 2002

Ph.D. in History, Arizona State University

May 1995

Master of Arts in American Indian Studies, University of Arizona

August 1992

Bachelor of Arts in History, University of Arizona

TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fall 2012

Liason, Native American Studies Program, Institute for Ethnic Studies

Fall 2009-present

Courses taught: History 111 and 111H, U.S. History Since 1877; History 288, Historical Methods; History/Ethnic Studies 241, Introduction to Native American History; History/Ethnic Studies 464/864, Native American History, Special Topics: Native American Education; History/Ethnic Studies 465/865, Great Plains Indian History; History 941, Graduate Reading Seminar, U.S. Indian Policy; History 943, Graduate Reading Seminar, U.S. History Since 1877

August 2008

Earned tenure and promotion to Associate Professor, UNL History Department/Institute for Ethnic Studies

August 2002 –January 2008

Joint tenure-track appointment, Assistant Professor, University

of Nebraska-Lincoln History Department and UNL Institute for Ethnic

Studies (Native American Studies):

Courses taught: History 942, Graduate Research Seminar; History 941, Graduate Reading Seminar; History/Ethnic Studies 465, History of the Indians of the Great Plains; History/Ethnic Studies 464, Native American Special Topics; History 288, Historical Methods; History/Ethnic Studies 241, Introduction to Native American History; History 201, American History to 1877; History 202, American History Since 1877; also a faculty member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, UNL and the UNL Graduate Faculty ; regularly teach Summer Reading Courses on indigenous topics

August 2001- May 2002

Lecturer, History Department/Ethnic Studies Program, University

of Nebraska, Lincoln; History/Ethnic Studies 241, Introduction to

American Indian History; History/Ethnic Studies 464, Special Topics in American

Indian History; History/Ethnic Studies 465, Great Plains Indian History;

History 201, American History to 1877

November 1998 –November 1999

Contracted with Arizona Humanities Council Speakers Bureau as

a lecturer on Arizona History, traveled to various parts of the state

(Yuma, Scottsdale, Phoenix, Prescott) to present program entitled “Blood,

Guts and Tenacity: The Pennington Family” to interested civic groups

and organizations. (Arizona territorial pioneers and Apache captive)

August 1998 – April 1999

Contracted with City of Willcox, Arizona, as Project Director,

Chiricahua Regional Museum; as Project Director, responsible for creating

board of directors, assigning committees, identifying sources of funding,

grant writing, and public relations with local residents of Cochise County

and with the Chiricahua Apaches at Mescalero, New Mexico; designed

five-year business plan for museum; Larry Rains, Willcox City Manager

August 1998-May 1999

Faculty Associate, Arizona State University; taught two courses

of Introduction to Race, Class and Gender, one semester of Introduction

to Feminist Theory, and one semester of American Indian Women;

ASU Women’s Studies Department, Mary Rothchild, Department Chair

August 1997 – May 1998

Faculty Associate; taught two courses of upper division Southwest

Indian History, Arizona State University

August 1996- May 1997

Graduate Assistant, two-semester assignment, compiled teaching

guide for Dr. Ron Smith, History Department, Arizona State University

January 1996 – May 1996

Graduate Assistant, ASU, Center for Latin American Studies; as

assistant, performed general office duties (phones, data entry, filing,

mass mailings) and participated in the mechanics of several fund-

raising activities; Dr. Lynn Stoner, Director

August 1995- December 1996

Graduate Assistant, ASU History Department; performed research

for Dr. Peter Iverson’s nationally awarded book entitled We Are Still Here

June – August 1995

Summer School faculty; two summer school sessions teaching

Dynamics of American Indian Society; American Indian Studies Department,

Dr. Jay Stauss, Director, University of Arizona

August 1993- May 1994

Graduate Teaching Assistant; two semester courses teaching Dynamics

of American Indian Society. American Indian Studies Department, Dr. Jay

Stauss, Director, The University of Arizona

August 1992 – May 1993

Work/Study Program, UA Geography Department; as office

assistant, performed routine chores including phones, filing, copying machine.

Dr. David Plane, Department Chair

August 1990 – May 1991

Work/Study Program, Arizona Historical Society; as an employee

of the Education Department, responsible for coordinating “traveling trunk” exhibit among Arizona school districts

August 1989 – May 1990

Paid internship, Arizona Historical Society, Conservation Department; learned basic concepts of museum conservation, specifically charged with monitoring air/light quality in exhibits; this data later used for grant funding leading to Arizona Historical Society’s recognition for environmental preparedness (fire, flood, earthquake); Tom Peterson, Director

August 1988 – May 1989

Paid internship, Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, Photo Archives;

in this position, learned basic concept of cataloging a photo collection;

Barbara Bush, Photo Archivist

August 1988 – May 1991

Tutor, History Department, Pima Community College, Tucson; supervised students through self-paced classes and testing process; Dr. Ken Chiaro, Department Chair

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Captive Arizona: 1851-1906 (University of Nebraska Press, 2009)

Introduction to Betty Grant Henshaw, Children of the Dust (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006)

No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs

Of an Omaha Indian Soldier, collaboration with Hollis Stabler, Sr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005)

Works in Progress

“Illegal Tender: Sexuality and the Invasion of America.” This journal article will reexamine the sexualized nature-feminist and masculist- of first encounters between European/ early American explorers and Native Americans in U.S. history.

“Blood Red: History, Case Law and Federal Mixed-Blood Indian Policy.” This book will examine Native American mixed-blood case law in the history of American jurisprudence. To that end, in 2012 in conjunction with a graduate student under independent study, I have researched nine additional legal cases and 17 articles from legal journals pertinent to the topic. I intend to begin collating the material, and outlining the book this summer (2013). Research materials are available for review.

Articles

"Sexuality and the Invasion of America," Red Ink: A Native American Student Publication 1:1 (University of Arizona, 1994) peer-reviewed by Red Ink editorial board

Essays

Kutler, Stanley I. Editor, Dictionary of American History (Charles

Scribner’s Sons, 2003) 3 entries: Apache Indians, Apache Wars and Indians of the Southwest

Book Reviews

Western Historical Quarterly, (Summer 2011) Brice Obermeyer, Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009)

Journal of American Ethnic History, (Summer 2009) Lakotas, Blackrobes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions in South Dakota, 1886-1900 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000)

Ethnohistory, 56:2 Spring 2009, William Chebatah and Nancy McGowan Minor, Chevato: The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehman (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007); Kathleen Chamberlain, Victorio: Apache Warrior and Chief (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007)

Indigenous Nations Journal 6:1 (Spring 2008); Timothy Braatz, Surviving Conquest: A History of the Yavapai Peoples (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003)

Western Historical Quarterly (Winter 2008) Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, Massacre at Camp Grant: Forgetting and Remembering Apache History (Tucson: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007)

New Mexico Historical Review, 81:4; Stan Hoig, A Travel Guide to the Plains Indian Wars (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006)

American Indian Culture and Research Journal 30:1. Louis Kraft, Lieutenant Charles Gatewood and his Apache Wars Memoir. By Charles B. Gatewood. Edited and with additional text by Louis Kraft (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005)

New Mexico Historical Review, 81:3. John Holiday and Robert S. McPherson, A Navajo Legacy: The Life and Teachings of John Holiday. Civilization of the American Indian Series, no. 251. (Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2005)

Military History of the West v. 35, 2005. H. Henrietta Stockel. Shame and Endurance: The Untold Story of the Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2004)

Journal of Arizona History, Fall 2004, Mark Edwin Miller, Forgotten Tribes: Unrecognized Indians and the Federal Acknowledgment Process. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004)

JAAR 73:2, Iliff School of Theology, James Treat, Around the Sacred Fire: Native American Religious Activism in the Red Power Era (Palgrave, 2003)

Great Plains Quarterly, 23:4 Fall 2002; William R. Nester, The Arikara War: The First Plains Indian War, 1823 (Missoula Montana:

Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2001)

Great Plains Quarterly, 23:4, Fall 2003. R. Douglas Hurt, The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846 (Albuquerque: University Of New Mexico Press, 2002)

The Journal of Military History, April 2002, Peter

Aleshire, Cochise: The Life and Times of the Great Apache Chief

(New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2001)

The Journal of Military History, Winter 2000; Louis Kraft, Gatewood and Geronimo (Albuquerque, The University of New Mexico Press, 2000)

The Journal of Military History, Vol. 64 No. 1, January 2000; Charles Collins, Apache Nightmare: The Battle at Cibecue Creek (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999)

The Journal of Military History, Vol. 63 No. 3 October

1998; Shelley Bowen Hatfield, Chasing Shadows: Apaches and Yaquis Along

the United States-Mexico Border, 1876-1911, (Albuquerque, NM: The

University of New Mexico Press, 1998)

American Indian Quarterly, Spring, 1999; Robert S. Ove

and Henrietta Stockel Geronimo’s Kids: A Teacher’s Lessons on the

Apache Reservation, (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1997)

Military History of the West, Vol. 28, No. 2, Fall 1998; Edwin R. Sweeney, Ed., Making Peace with Cochise: The 1872 Journal of Captain Joseph Alton Sladen (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997

CONFERENCES/PAPERS/PANELS

April 2012

Panelist, “The Politics and Power of Life-Writing,” Institute for Ethnic Studies Colloquia Spring 2012, UNL; it was at this panel that I first publicly spoke about the U.S. prison system, in preparation for a scheduled Fall 2013 panel, The Prison Panel, which will eventually become an annual event within the University of Nebraska Coalition for Prison Reform (see Research)

March 2012

Panel Moderator, “Preparing to Look Forward on the Great Plains,” Great Plains Studies Symposium, March 29-30, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Annual Conference

October 2010

Panel Chair, “Citizens of the West: Yaqui, Ho-Chunk and Cherokee Women’s Transition from Native to American,” Western History Association 2010 Annual Conference

September 2010

Panelist, “Native Peoples, Language as Resource: Oral History as History”, Institute for Ethnic Studies seminar, UNL

February 2009

Panelist and keynote speaker, “Native American Women Warriors,” UNL College of Journalism and Mass Communications

October 2008

Panelist, “The Art, Craft, and Ethics of Biography and Autobiography: A Conversation with Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize Winner,” sponsored by UNL English Department

April 2006

“The Role of Captivity in the Chiricahua Wars,” at Arizona History Convention, Tucson.

December 2005

Commencement Address, UNL College of Education, Native American Graduates

September 2005

Panelist, University of Nebraska, Institute for Ethnic Studies, “The Importance of Ethnic Studies,” September 28th and 29th, 2005.

October 2004

Panelist, University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange, “Beyond the Myth: A Look at the Realities of Christopher Columbus and the ‘Discovery’ of the Americas”

October 2004

Panelist, Western History Association Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV; “Sexuality and the Invasion of America;”

March 2004

Chair, Antebellum Native American History Panel, Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE

February 2004

Guest Lecturer, Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Center Regional

Training Academy, February 15-19, 2004, Nebraska City, NE, “Indian Women in the Northern Fur Trade”

January 2004

Annual Conference, American Historical Association, Washington, D.C.; interviewed applicants for position in Western American History, History Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

November 2003

Session moderator, “Culture, Race and Region,” University of

Nebraska-Lincoln Plains Humanities Alliance First Annual Regional

Humanities Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska

March 2003

Panelist, "Ozarkin: The Persistence of Cherokee Clan and Law in the Twentieth Century Missouri Ozarks," Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, Nebraska

February 2003

Guest speaker, “Indian Women in the Fur Trade,” Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska

April 2001

Panelist, Arizona History Convention, “Destroying Angels: The Evolution of Indian Scouting in Arizona, 1860s-1870s.”

February 2001

Guest Speaker, “Blood, Guts and Tenacity: The Saga of the Pennington Family in Southern Arizona,” Arizona Historical Society, Tempe.

November 1999

Guest speaker, Arizona State University Downtown Center, “White Eyes, Red Heart, Bluecoat: The Life and Times of Mickey Free.”

August 1997 – May 1998

Co-founding editorial board member, electronic magazine H-AMINDIAN; learned to administer an electronic academic magazine sponsored in part by the University of Michigan’s Humanities Net Internet publications; responsibilities included learning the mechanics of subscribing, editing, and posting academic information focused on Native American interests over the Internet

November 1996

Presenter, American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon; “White Eyes, Red Heart, Bluecoat: The Life and Times of Mickey Free”

May 1993 – August 1995

Co-founding editorial board member, Red Ink: A Native American Student Publication; as one of a small group of Native American graduate students, organized, drew up a proposal, petitioned the University for funding, and successfully produced a Native American student publication at the University of Arizona; additional responsibilities included selling subscriptions nation-wide, and recruiting advertisers; at present date, the publication continues to grow in subscription strength, appreciated for its inclusion of non-academics on its author list

CONSULTATIONS AND MANUSCRIPT READINGS

March 2012

Served as consultant for UNL Great Plains Studies Museum, Alicia Harris, Curator Intern and Installation Coordinator, in preparation for Native American exhibit related to Great Plains Studies Symposium

December 2011

Reader, Linda Reese, Trail Sisters: The Freedwomen in Indian Territory, Texas Tech University Press

October 2009

Reader, H. Henrietta Stockel’s forthcoming oral history of Mescalero Apaches, untitled, University of Oklahoma Press

February 2009

Reader, “Subjects Born in Captivity: John Marrant’s Most Wonderful Inversion of the Captive Woman Motif,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, forthcoming

November 2008

Critique: Master’s Thesis, Carol Patton Cornsilk for Laurie Bellows, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies, UNL, for Folsom Distinguished Master’s Thesis Award

October 2008

Reader, Brummett Echohawk, “The Quill of the Thunderbird,” University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming

September 2006

Reader, Western Historical Quarterly, “Colonized Labor and the U.S. Conquest of the Southwest”

November 2005

Reader, Journal of Military History, “The Powers of the Heavens Shall Eat of my Smoke: The Significance of Scalping in Pawnee Warfare”

November 2005

Reader, Texas Tech University Press, for Betty Grant Henshaw, Children of the Dust

May 2004

Reader, Texas Tech University Press, for Akim Reinhardt book manuscript, “Not Really the Best System of Government”

COMMITTEES AND SERVICE

Fall 2012-Present

Member, Professor of Practice Search Committee, UNL History Dept.

Fall 2012-Present

Outside Member, Program Committee, UNL Literature Department

Fall 2011-present

Member, UNL History Department Advisory Committee

Fall 2010-2012

Member, Western Historical Association Robert M. Utley Prize Committee

September 2012

Hosted UNL History Department APR team lunch

Spring 2012

In conjunction with UNL History Department North American West faculty search: 1/19/12 lunch with candidate Mike Wise; 2/13/12, lunch with candidate Colin Wilder; 2/16/12 escorted candidate Kent Blancett from Embassy Suites to UNL campus

Fall 2009-2010

UNL History Department Resources Committee

UNL Institute for Ethnic Studies Curriculum Committee

Fall 2008-2009

Awards and Scholarship Committee, WGS, Donnas Akers, Chair

Fall 2008

Planning Committee, UNL Research Council, Andy Graybill, Chair, for Visiting Scholar, Professor Don Pepion, Southern New Mexico University, Las Cruces, “The 1870 Marias Massacre”

April 2007

Senior Research Papers Judging Committee, Nebraska History Day, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln

August 2007-2008

Member-UNL History Department Resources Committee

August 2006-2009

Member, College Assessment Committee, Amy Goodburn, Chair

August 2005-2008

Faculty Advisor, University of Nebraska Inter-Tribal Exchange

August 2005-present

Member, Texas Tech University Press Editorial Board, Plains Histories Series

August 2005-May 2006

Board of Governors, UNL Center for Great Plains Studies; also Chair, Nominations Committee, CGPS

UNL Women’s Studies Advisory Board

UNL Women’s and Gender Studies Award Committee

Executive Committee member, Institute for Ethnic Studies, UNL

Faculty Advisor, University of Nebraska Intertribal Exchange

August 2005-May 2006

UNL Ethnic Studies Week, organizational committee, April 2006

August 2005-June 2007

National Park Service and Center for Great Plains Studies planning committee, Homesteading Reconsidered, Beatrice, National Homestead Monument, June 2007

August 2004 – May 2005

Advisory committee, Digital Enhancement Proposal, RG 75 Project, Kay Walters, Chair

June 2004

Member, Symposium Planning Committee, “The Nature of Lewis and Clark on the Plains”; Center for Great Plains Studies Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium, Nebraska City, Nebraska; Gary Moulton, Symposium Chair

April 2004

Senior Research Papers Judging Committee, Nebraska History Day, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln

January 2004

Initiated Record Group 75 Digitization Project, Academic Program Enhancement (PoE) Proposal, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, 2003-04; advisory committee member on the project chaired by Kay Walters

January-May 2004

Member, Digital History Search Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of History

November 2003-January 2004

Member, Western History Search Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of History

August 2003-present

Member, UNL Women’s Studies Program, Awards Committee

August 2003 – present

Member, Great Plains Quarterly Editorial Board

August 2003-May 2005

Member, Advisory Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of History

August 2003-2004

Member, Undergraduate Committee, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of History

August 2003-May 2004

Mentored University of Nebraska UCARE student researcher Frederick Grizzard on topic of Indians in World War II

Summer 2003

Mentored UNL McNair Fellow Frederick Grizzard on topic of

Indians in World War II

September 2002

Member, Entertainment Committee and Student Panel Committee, UNL Institute for Ethnic Studies 30th Anniversary Celebration

SCHOLARSHIPS/AWARDS/GRANTS

August 2012-present

I am currently in the very early stages of formulating a Ford Foundation grant application for a program that will be known as University of Nebraska Coalition for Prison Reform. The Coalition will be formed of members of various departments and programs from UNL (Ethnic Studies, History, Political Science, Human Rights/Human Advocacy, Law College) as well as various existing prison reform programs across the U.S., including Nebraska. The coalition will feature a web site that will coordinate the organization along three lines: Information, Programming and Civil and Political Actions

January 2008

Awarded Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students, The Parents Association and The Teaching Council of the University of Nebraska

May 2006

No One Ever Asked Me awarded 1st place prize for Best Memoir/Biography by the Army Historical Foundation

January 2006

UNL Layman Grant, denied-for research on Cherokee/Delaware History

March 2005-07

Awarded UNL’s Harold and Esther Edgerton Junior Faculty Chair, $5000.00

February 2005

$800.00 fellowship from the Arizona Historical Society for follow-up research on current monograph Captive Arizona: Indian Captives and Captive Indians in Territorial Arizona, 1850-1896, for summer 2005

January 2005

Awarded the UNL Teaching Council and Parents Association ‘Certificate of Recognition for Contributions to Students’

January 2004

$3,100.00 research grant, University of Nebraska Research Council, for summer 2004 research at the Arizona Historical Society and the University of Arizona regarding Apache captives

May 2003

$1000.00 research grant, Department of History, University of

Nebraska-Lincoln, James Rawley Fund, for summer research on Cherokees in

the Ozarks

July 1998

$1000.00 grant awarded by the Max Millett Family Foundation,

Arizona State University History Department, for research in Cochise,

Santa Cruz and Yavapai Counties, Arizona, regarding Apache captives and scouts

August 1995-August 1997

Several academic scholarships covering full cost of tuition at

Arizona State University awarded by Graduate College and Office of

Minority Students

May 1994

$800.00 awarded by University of Arizona Graduate College

and Graduate College Minority Affairs for “meritorious academic achievement”

May 1994

$5000.00 academic fellowship awarded by American Indian

Studies Program, the University of Arizona; this fellowship carried a ten

hour-per week internship with the University of Arizona’s American

Indian Language Development Institute, a freestanding, self-funding

program associated with the College of Education, University of

Arizona; responsibilities centered on preparing for AILDI’s annual

summer colloquium, a nationally renowned program designed to educate

teachers of American Indian students from across the United States, and a

major source of revenues for the Institute; Teresa McCarty, Director

August 1989 – August 1992

Several academic scholarships covering full cost of tuition at

The University of Arizona, Tucson, awarded by Arizona Board of Regents

NOMINATIONS/RECOGNITIONS

May 2007

No One Ever Asked Me nominated for 2007 Oral History Association Award

November 2003

Honored by Mortar Board National Honor Society, The Black Masque Chapter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln as one of several “People Who Inspire”

October 2003

Chosen by University of Nebraska Huskers Football Team as “Guest Coach for a Game,” Huskers v. Troy State

April 2001

Recipient, Don Bufkin Prize, Best Paper on Territorial

Arizona, “Destroying Angels: Indian Scouting in Arizona, 1860s-1870s,”

Arizona History Convention, Pinetop, Arizona

December 1994

Certificate of Nomination awarded by The University of Arizona

Graduate College and Division of Student Affairs to the Centennial

Achievement Graduate Award for “outstanding personal growth,

persistence, integrity, contributions to self, community, and family”

October 1990

Inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, Zeta Omega Chapter, International

History Honor Society, University of Arizona, by Dr. Harwood Hinton

November 1989

As a student intern at Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, awarded

Letter of Recognition for participation in museum exhibit entitled “For Me

and My Gal: Fashions from the Teens

TELEVISION APPEARANCES

November 2004

History Channel, November 19, 2004, for documentary entitled Battlefield Detectives: Apache Wars, produced by Granada Films for BBC, Maire Tracy producer/director

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES

Dr. Peter Iverson

Arizona State University History Department

Dr. Tom Holm

University of Arizona, American Indian Studies Program

Dr. James Riding-In

Arizona State University

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Arizona Historical Society

Western History Association

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