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CURRICULUM VITAEJACOB C. JURSS Ph.D.Saint Paul, MNjakejurss@ : EDUCATION2017Ph.D., Michigan State University, HistoryDissertation: “Contested Authority: Indigenous Borderlands of the Western Great Lakes” 2011 B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, HistoryHonors in the field of historyEMPLOYMENTAug. 2019 – PresentAdjunct Professor History; University of St. ThomasSaint Paul, MinnesotaAug. 2018 – PresentCommunity Faculty Member; Metropolitan State University Saint Paul, MinnesotaDec. 2018 – Feb. 2019Interim Executive Director; Lower Phalen Creek Project Saint Paul, MinnesotaAug. 2017 – May 2018NASNTI Post-Doctoral Fellow; University of Minnesota, MorrisMorris, MinnesotaJune 2017- July 2017Associate Editor/Researcher South Dakota Historical Society PressPierre, South DakotaSCHOLARLY ACTIVITIESUnder Review: Article“Relations Across the Lands: Ojibwe Borderlands of the Western Great Lakes”Peer Reviewed Articles:2017“Borders of Authority: Power in the Canadian Borderlands at the 1844 Jesuit-Anishinaabeg Debate” Journal of Borderlands Studies Routledge Journals Taylor & Francis Group Publication Vol. 32, No. 3 (2017) pp. 395-411. Online Essays:2019Essay “Treaties Matter” East Side Freedom Library blog [April 2] Minnesota Humanities Center blog [April 11] Essay “Sovereign Nations: An Introduction to the Nation-to-Nation Treaty Relationship Between the United States and American Indian Tribes” The Panorama online blog of The Journal of the Early Republic [Fall 2017] “Pioneer Girl Project” A series of essays for the South Dakota Historical Society Press [Summer 2017] “Historical Perspectives on Tribal Sovereignty and the Environment,” H-Net Book Channel Online Essay [Spring 2017] Encyclopedia Articles:2019“Indigenous Milwaukee in the Age of Empire” in The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee, ed. Thomas Jablonsky et. al. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, “Coughlin, Charles E. (October 25, 1891–October 27, 1979)” in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Taylor and Francis, <;. doi:10.4324/9781135000356-REM1060-1.2015“Schoolcraft, Henry (1793-1864)” in Imperialism and Expansionism in American History: A Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection ed. Chris J. Magoc and David Bernstein (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2015), 667.Book Reviews:2021Book Review: Beneath the Backbone of the World: Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 1720-1877. Ryan Hall. (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Middle Ground Journal forthcoming2020Book Review: The Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church: A Chain Linking Two Traditions. Edited by L. Gordan McLester III, Laurence M. Hauptman, Judy Cornelius-Hawk, and Kenneth Hoyan House. (Bloomington: Indian University Press, 2019. Western Historical Quarterly forthcoming 2019Book Review “Martin Case’s ‘The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property’” East Side Freedom Library blog November 5 Review: The Bone and Sinew of the Land: America’s Forgotten Black Pioneers & The Struggle for Equality by Anna-Lisa Cox. New York: Public Affairs, 2018. Black Perspectives January 11, 2019. Review: Unlikely Alliances: Native Nations and White Communities Join to Defend Rural Lands by Zoltan Grossman. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017. H-Net Review: H-AmIndian December 2018. . 2017 Book Review: Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, & Reclamations edited by Jacqueline Fear-Segal & Susan D. Rose. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016. South Dakota History Vol 47, No. 4 (Winter 2017), pp. 375-376.Book Review: Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow by Brian D. McInnes. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2016. And Gerry Weaver and Brian McInnes. Teacher’s Guide: Indigenous War Heroes, Secondary School Curriculum. Published online by Wasauksing First Nation and the University of Toronto, 2016. 89 pp. in Studies in American Indian Literature Vol. 29, No. 3 (Fall 2017), pp. 114-118.Book Review: American Indian Treaties: A Guide to Ratified and Unratified Colonial, United States, State, Foreign, and Intertribal Treaties and Agreements, 1607-1911 by David H. DeJong. Salt Lake City: The University of Utah Press, 2015. American Indian Quarterly Vol. 41, No. 2 (Spring 2017), pp. 185-187. 2016Book Review: Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860 by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Vol. 3.1, Spring 2016, pp. 154-155.2015 Book Review: The Murder of Joe White: Ojibwe Leadership and Colonialism in Wisconsin by Erik M. Redix. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014. The Middle West Review Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 2015, pp. 132-134. Book Review: Cochise: Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief. Ed. by Edwin R. Sweeney. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014. Southwestern Historical Quarterly Vol. 118, No. 4, April 2015, pp. 433-434. Book Review: A World You Do Not Know: Settler Societies, Indigenous Peoples and the Attack on Cultural Diversity by Colin Samson Publication Spring 2015 Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Vol. 2.1, Spring 2015, pp. 147-149.Presentations:Invited Talks2021University of St. Thomas Equity in Action: Cultivating Antiracist Universities Land Acknowledgment Session. St. Paul, MN: April 26University of St. Thomas Land Acknowledgment Teach-In “An Overall of American Indian History in Relation to the University of St. Thomas Land Acknowledgement,” St. Paul, MN: March 112020 University of Minnesota Center for Early Modern History: Minneapolis, MN “Shifting Alliances and Shifting Environments: A Panorama of 1720 Anishinaabeg-Dakota Relations”: September 252020East Side Freedom Library and Metropolitan State University: St. Paul, MN Roundtable “Public Scholarship and Community Engagement”: February 282018University of Minnesota, Morris NASNTI Post-Doc Fellow Presentation: Morris, MN “Power and Borders: The 1825 Prairie du Chien Treaty Council” April 252015 Guest Lecture Central Michigan University: Mount Pleasant, MI“Anishinaabeg: History and Culture to Contact” September 25Conference Presentations2020Annual Western History Association Conference: Online and Albuquerque Presidential Plenary Our WHA: Who Are We and Where We Are Headed: Emerging Scholar Video Participant October 152019Annual Conference of the Midwest World History Association: Minneapolis, MNRoundtable: Modern Misconceptions, Identities, and Ideologies in the History Classroom: How to Teach Against the (White Supremacist) Grain September 202017 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory: Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada “Murky Boundaries; Clear Waters: Power, Water, and Treaties in the Anishinaabeg Great Lakes” October 13Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA“Children of the Buffalo and the Hare: How Kinship and Environmental Resources Shaped the Dakota-Anishinaabeg Borderlands” April 72016 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory: Nashville, TN“Wild Rice Borderlands: Ojibwe-Dakota Intermarriage and the Competition for Environmental Resources” November 12 Western History Association Annual Meeting: Saint Paul, MN“The Power of Kin: Authority in the western Great Lakes Borderlands at the 1825 Prairie du Chien Treaty” October 23 Newberry Library American Indian Studies Seminar Series: Chicago, IL“Indigenous Borderlands: Power, the Environment, and Kinship in the Western Great Lakes” May 112015Native American and Indigenous Studies Association: Washington D.C.“Violence Knows No Boundaries: Violence Against Native Women Along the Western Great Lakes Borderlands,” June 4-62014 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Ethnohistory: Indianapolis, IN“A Landscape Rethought: The 1825 Prairie du Chien Treaty Council and American Indian Power in the Upper Mississippi River Borderlands,” October 8-122013 Migration Without Boundaries, Michigan State University: East Lansing, MI “Borders of Violence: The Prairie du Chien Treaty of 1825 and the Beginnings of Native Nation Removal in the North American Great Lakes,” October 4-5 International Graduate Historical Conference, Central Michigan University: Mount Pleasant, MI “Indigenous Borderlands: An Examination of the Ojibwe-Jesuit Debate of 1844,” April 5-6 Making the World Turn: Graduate Student Conference, University of Toronto: Toronto, ON “Where Do You Come From and Who Sent You?” The Lead-up to the Ojibwe-Jesuit Debate on Walpole Island,” February 1-2AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS2020University of St. Thomas: Environmental Stewardship Curriculum Grant: St. Paul, MNMetropolitan State University: Covid-19 Emergency Teaching Grant: St. Paul, MN2018 University of Minnesota, Morris Briggs Library Collection Enhancement Grant: Morris, MN2017 University of Minnesota, Morris Faculty Research Enhancement Fund IIIA Travel: Morris, MNOrganization of American Historians: Samuel and Marion Merrill Graduate Student Travel Grant2016 Western History Association: Graduate Student PrizeNewberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student FellowshipNewberry Library: Chicago, IL 2015 Research Scholarship Program Fellowship AwardMichigan State University College of Social Science: East Lansing, MI Stevens Researcher Travel FellowshipBentley Historical Library: Ann Arbor, MI2014Harry Brown Graduate Fellowship in American History: Michigan State University History Department; East Lansing, MI Susan Applegate Krouse Graduate Research FellowshipMichigan State University American Indian Studies Program: East Lansing, MI Research Scholarship Program Fellowship AwardMichigan State University College of Social Science: East Lansing, MI2013 NCAIS Summer Institute Fellow, Newberry Library Chicago, ILCompeting Narrative: Native American and Indigenous Studies Across Disciplines Research Scholarship Program Fellowship AwardMichigan State University College of Social Science: East Lansing, MI NCAIS Spring Seminar in Research Methods, Newberry Library Chicago, ILNative Oral Traditions and History in the Archives: Research, Theory, and MethodPreparing Future Faculty for Effective Assessment of Student Learning, Michigan State University Graduate Student Fellow, May 2013Somers Excellence in Teaching Award, Michigan State UniversityFinalist Nominee, August 2012- May 2013TEACHING AND PEDOLOGY WORK:Teaching Experience:2019-CurrentAdjunct Professor of History, University of St. Thomas: Saint Paul, MNHIST 114: United States in Global Perspective from 1865 to the PresentAugust 2019-December 2019February 2020-May 2020May 2020-July 2020 (two sections)HIST 113: United States in Global Perspectives Beginnings to 1865August 2020-December 2020February 2021-May 2021 (three sections)2018-CurrentCommunity Faculty Member, Metropolitan State University: Saint Paul, MNHIST 310: American Indian HistoryJanuary 2020-May 2020January 2021-May 2021HIST 312: Beginnings of American SocietyAugust 2020-December 2020HIST 333: The Greening of AmericaAugust 2019-December 2019HIST 313: The American Presidents January 2019-May 2019.HIST 337: American Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1898 August 2018-December 20182017-2018 NASNTI Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Minnesota, Morris: Morris, MNHIST 2451: The American WestJanuary 2018-May 2018NAIS 1101: Intro to Native American and Indigenous StudiesAugust 2017-December 20172015-2016Instructor, Michigan State University: East Lansing, MIHST 379: Native Americans in North America since 1830 January 2016-May 2016January 2015-May 20152012-2015Teaching Assistant, Michigan State University: East Lansing, MIHST 202: U.S. History to 1876August 2014-December 2014IAH 201: United States and the World 1898-2001August 2012- May 2013Summer Assistant Instructor, Michigan State University [Online Course]HST 202: U.S. History to 1876.May 2014 – June 2014; July 2015-August 2015Pedagogy and Praxis Development Training:2020Antiracist Pedagogy and Praxis: Toward What Justice, Book Discussion Metropolitan State University: St. Paul, MN2020Antiracist Pedagogy and Praxis: A Good Time for the Truth, Book Discussion Metropolitan State University: St. Paul, MN2020Writing Across the Curriculum, University of St. Thomas: St. Paul, MN2018D2L Basic Part I Center for Online Learning, Metropolitan State University: St. Paul, MN2018D2L Basic Part II Center for Online Learning, Metropolitan State University: St. Paul, MN2018Integrated Course Design Center for Online Learning, Metropolitan State University: St. Paul, MNDEPARTMENTAL AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICEUniversity Committees:2020-2021Land Acknowledgment and Recommendations on Support for Indigenous Students and Studies Committee, University of St. Thomas: St. Paul, MN2020-2021 College of Letters and Sciences Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Task Force, University of St. Thomas: St. Paul, MN2020-2021Teach-In Tuesday Task Force, University of St. Thomas: St. Paul, MN2020-2021Student-Directed Learning (SDL) Advisory Committee University Council: Metropolitan State University: St. Paul, MN2020-2021University Action Plan to Combat Racism Task Force, University of St. Thomas: St. Paul, MNArticle Referee:2019Middle Ground JournalPROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONSTreatied Spaces: Environment and Peoples in America, 1607-1890 Research Cluster, University of Hull, UK.International Project Associate Fall 2017-PresentGraduate Historians’ Association, Michigan State University President, September 2014- July 2015President, September 2012-August 2013Member, September 2012- 2017Indigenous Graduate Student Collective, Michigan State UniversityUniversity Liaison, August 2013- May 2014Member, February 2013- 2017The Midwestern Borderland: A Reading GroupA CIC graduate student reading collective sponsored in part by the Humanities Without Wall projectMember, September 2014-May 2015Undergraduate History Association, University of Wisconsin Member, January 2009- May 2011American Historical AssociationMember, August 2012- 2018American Society for EthnohistoryMember, January 2014- 2017Native American and Indigenous Studies AssociationMember, March 2014- 2017Organization of American HistoriansMember, January 2015- 2017Western History AssociationMember, July 2016- 2017RESEARCH ASSISTANTAssistant Editor, H-NET Book ChannelDr. Peter Knupfer, August 2016-May 2017Research Assistant, Michigan State UniversityDr. Susan Sleeper-Smith, August 2015-December 2015 Research Assistant, Michigan State UniversityDr. Susan Sleeper-Smith, August 2013- May 2014Assistant Editor Why You Can’t Teach U.S. History Without American Indians: Ed. Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, and Scott Manning Stevens. North Carolina University Press, 2015. Research Assistant, Michigan State UniversityDr. Jane Vieth, August 2013- April 2013 ................
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