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1 MICHAEL J. LANSING Department of History Augsburg University 2211 Riverside Ave. Minneapolis, MN EMPLOYMENT: Chair, Department of History, Augsburg University Associate Professor of History, Augsburg University Director, Environmental Studies Program, Augsburg University Assistant Professor of History, Augsburg University Visiting Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York at Buffalo Visiting Assistant Editor, Western Historical Quarterly Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Utah State University EDUCATION: Ph.D., History, University of Minnesota, 2003 Dissertation: The Significance of Nonhumans in U.S. Western History Adviser: Sara M. Evans Committee: Erika Lee, Thomas C. Wolfe, Bruce Braun (Geography), Karen Till (Geography) M.A., History, Utah State University, 1998 Thesis: Masculinity and Bonanza Wheat in North Dakota s Red River Valley, Adviser: Anne M. Butler Committee: David Rich Lewis, Steve Siporin (Folklore) A.B., History (with Highest Honors), Religious Studies, College of William & Mary, 1995 BOOKS: Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015). Coauthor, with Anne M. Butler, The American West: A Concise History (Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008). ARTICLES (REFEREED): Coauthor, with Kirsten Delegard, Prince and The Making of the Minneapolis Mystique, Middle West Review (accepted, forthcoming) An American Daughter in Africa, Land of My Fathers: Era Bell Thompson s Midwestern Vision of the African Diaspora, Middle West Review 1 (Spring 2015), Salvaging the Manpower of America : Conservation, Manhood, and Disabled Veterans During World War I, Environmental History 14 (January 2009):

2 Race, Space, and Chinese Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Salt Lake City, Utah Historical Quarterly 72 (Summer 2004): Reprinted in Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Reid L. Neilson, eds., Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier, (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2008). Different Methods, Different Places: Feminist Geography and New Directions in U.S. Western History, Journal of Historical Geography 29, no. 2 (2003): Environmental Ethics, Green Politics, and the History of Predator Biology, Ethics, Place, and Environment 5 (March 2002): Plains Indian Women and Interracial Marriage in the Upper Missouri Fur and Hide Trade, Western Historical Quarterly 31 (Winter 2000): Reprinted in Roger L. Nicholls, ed., The American Indian: Past and Present, 6th edition, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008). ESSAYS: Insurgencies and Democracy, in Book Roundtable: Seeds of Democracy, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 16, no. 1 (January 2017): Robinson s History: Fifty Years Later, North Dakota Quarterly 83 (Spring/Summer 2016): Coauthor, with David Rich Lewis, Surveying the Western History Association, Western Historical Quarterly 38 (Autumn 2007): AWARDS: Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Augsburg College, 2016 Alice Smith Prize in Public History, Midwestern History Association, 2015 Dale L. Morgan Award (Best Scholarly Article in Utah Historical Quarterly), Utah State Historical Society, 2005 Oscar O. Winther Award (Best Article to Appear in Western Historical Quarterly), Western History Association, 2001 Burlingame/Toole Award (Best Graduate Student Submission to Montana, The Magazine of Western History), Montana Historical Society, 1997 William Albert Fraley Award (Best History Honors Thesis of the Year), Department of History, College of William & Mary, 1995 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS: Legacy Research Fellowship, Minnesota Historical Society, 2017 Lloyd Lewis Fellowship in American History, Newberry Library, Dean s Summer Scholarship Grant, Augsburg College, 2009 University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship,

3 Robert M. Utley Editorial Fellowship, Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University, PRESENTATIONS AND COMMENTS: Refining Legacy Grant-Making: Surveying Minnesota s History and Heritage Professionals. Co-presenter at Minnesota Association of Local History Museums Conference, Marshall, MN, April 26, What Insights Can We Bring to the Rural/Urban Divide in Minnesota? Chair for panel presentations and discussion at the Minnesota History Whatever (Conference), Minneapolis, MN, March 23, Manliness, War, and the Contested Role of Fighting Across Three Centuries of War in the West, Chair for panel presentations at the Western History Association Conference, San Diego, CA, November 4, From Service Learning to Democratic Empowerment: Civic Engagement Strategies for Teaching and Learning History. Paper presented at the Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Northridge, CA, August 5, Challenges to Ku Klux Klan Organization in the 1920s. Chair and comment for panel presentations at the Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Northridge, CA, August 5, From Wheat to Wheaties: Minneapolis, the Northern Plains, and the Transformation of American Food. Paper presented at the Environmental History of the Great Plains Workshop (National Science Foundationsponsored), University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, May 24, 2017 The Minnesota History Ecosystem. Co-facilitator at the Minnesota History Whatever (Conference), Minneapolis, MN, May 11, 2017 National History Day and Higher Education: The Strategic Implications of Engaging in K-12 Outreach through NHD. Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 7, 2017 Expanding History through TV, Print, and Digital Formats. Chair of panel presentation at the Western History Association Conference, St. Paul, MN, October 23, 2016 Library of Congress Teaching With Primary Sources, Western and Midwestern Regions. Panel presentation at the Western History Association Conference, St. Paul, MN, October 20, 2016 Northern Plains/Midwestern Politics of the Postwar Era. Comment on presentations at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, MN, September 16, 2016 The Nonpartisan League in the Dakotas: A Discussion of Michael Lansing s Insurgent Democracy. Comment on presentations at the Dakota Conference, Sioux Falls, SD, April 23, 2016 A Movement for Democracy or a Democratic Movement? Leadership and Organizing in the Nonpartisan League. Paper presented at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, April 7, 2016 The Nonpartisan League as a Transnational Movement. Paper presented at the Western History Association Conference, Portland, OR, October 23, 2015 Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics, A Critique. Comment on presentations at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Bismarck, ND, October 2,

4 Women s Suffrage on the Northern Plains. Comment on presentations at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Bismarck, ND, October 2, 2015 Religion in Lake Wobegon: Reviving the Study of a Lost Region. Comment on presentations at the American Society for Church History Conference, Minneapolis, MN, April 19, 2015 The Women Are Voluntarily Organizing Themselves : Gender and Grassroots Democracy in the Nonpartisan League. Paper presented at the Western History Association Conference, Newport Beach, CA, October 15, 2014 Why Western Women and Gender History Matters. Panel presentation at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Sioux Falls, SD, October 10, 2014 What is the AHA s Tuning Project and Why Should Western Historians Care? A Discussion. Chair and panel presentation at the Western History Association Conference, Tucson, AZ, October 11, 2013 Killed by its friends : The Undoing of the Nonpartisan League. Paper presented at the Western History Association Conference, Denver, CO, October 7, 2012 Reassessing Farmers in Midwestern Political Life. Chair and comment on paper presentations at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Fargo, ND, September 27, 2012 New Perspectives on the Nonpartisan League. Paper presented at the Western History Association Conference, Incline Village, NV, October 14, 2010 New Possibilities for Public History in a Post-Carbon World. Paper presented at the National Council on Public History Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, March 13, 2010 Western Women s and Gender History. Panel presentation at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, St. Cloud, MN, October 17, 2009 Teaching About Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the American West. Panel presentation at the Western History Association Conference, Denver, CO, October 9, 2009 Perils of Place: Teaching Western History to Diverse Audiences. Panel presentation at the Western History Association Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, October 23, 2008 Tidal Waves? U.S. Feminist Historians Talk Back (and Forth) Across the Generations. Panel presentation at the 14 th Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Minneapolis, MN, June 13, 2008 Conflicts in the Land. Chair and comment on paper presentations at the The State We re In: Creative and Critical Approaches to Minnesota History at 150, Collegeville, MN, May 29, 2008 Forestry, Prosthetics, and Manhood in World War I America. Paper presented at the Western History Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 12, 2006 Where is the Western History Association? Report on a Survey. Panel presentation at the Western History Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 12, 2006 An American Daughter in Africa: Era Bell Thompson on Race, Human Rights, and African American Identity in the 1950s. Paper presented at Organization of American Historians Midwest Regional Conference, Lincoln, NE, July 8,

5 Protecting What the River Runs Through: Legal Activism in Minnesota s Sierra Club, Poster presentation at American Society for Environmental History Conference, St. Paul, MN, March 30, 2006 Planting the Seeds of International Environmental Activism: Greening the Peace Prize Consortium Colleges. Co-organizer and Panelist at Nobel Peace Prize Forum: Striving for Peace, Sustaining the Planet, Decorah, IA, March 11, 2006 Western History Journals. Panel presentation at Western History Association Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, October 15, 2005 The Ethnography of an Imperial Tourist: Prince Maximilian of Wied as Scientist and Explorer on the Upper Missouri. Paper presented at the Western History Association Conference, San Diego, CA, October 5, 2001 Applying Feminist Geographies to U.S. History: The American West. Paper presented at the National Women s Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 16, 2001 Science Studies, Environmentalism, and the History of Predator Biology. Paper presented at Carnivores 2000: A Conference on Carnivore Biology and Conservation in the 21 st Century (sponsored by Defenders of Wildlife), Denver, CO, November 14, 2000 Between Dissimilar Worlds: Indian Women, Trade, and Cultural Change on the Northern Plains. Paper presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Mankato, MN, September 28, 2000 Race, Gender, and Bonanza Farming: Black Men and Settlement Rhetoric in North Dakota, Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, November 12, 1999 Masculinity and Bonanza Wheat in North Dakota s Red River Valley. Paper presented at the Western History Association Conference, St. Paul, MN, October 17, 1997 Environmental History, Farm Fiction, and the Past, Present, and Future of the Great Plains. Paper presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Bismarck, ND, September 25, 1997 Children of the Trade: Métis on the Upper Missouri. Paper presented at the Plains Anthropology Conference, Laramie, WY, October 19, 1995 INVITED LECTURES: Insurgent Democracy: New Visions of the Nonpartisan League. Brown County (MN) Historical Society, November 11, 2015; State Historical Society of North Dakota, December 6, 2015; Department of History, Minnesota State University-Mankato, February 28, 2016; Department of History, Montana State University, March 30, 2016; Montana Historical Society, March 31, 2016; Southwest Minnesota State University, September 14, 2016; Alexandria Community College, September 22, 2016; University of St. Thomas, September 27, 2016; Minnesota Historical Society, March 21, Why Your History Major Matters More Than Ever: Educating for Citizenship and Employment in a Moment of Crisis. Department of History, Minnesota State University-Mankato, Mankato, MN, April 21, 2013 New Visions of the Nonpartisan League. Department of History, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, April 16,

6 BOOK REVIEWS: Politics of the Pantry: Housewives, Food, and Consumer Protest in Twentieth-Century America, by Emily E. LB. Twarog, for Food, Culture & Society 21, no. 2 (2018): Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America, by Colin R. Johnson, for Middle West Review 2 (Fall 2015). The Lost Region: Toward a Revival of Midwestern History, by Jon K. Lauck, for Western Historical Quarterly 45 (Autumn 2014). City Dreams, Country Schemes: Community and Identity in the American West, eds. Kathleen A. Brosnan and Amy L. Scott, for New Mexico Historical Review 88 (Summer 2013). Re-dressing America s Frontier Past, by Peter Boag, for Journal of American History 99 (March 2013). The Red Corner: The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana, by Verlaine Stoner McDonald, for Western Historical Quarterly 42 (Summer 2011). Hoboes: Bindlestiffs, Fruit Tramps, and the Harvesting of the West, by Mark Wyman, for Montana The Magazine of Western History 60 (Winter 2010). African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology, eds. Bruce A. Glasrud and Charles A. Braithwaite, for Annals of Iowa 69 (Fall 2010). North Woods River: The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History, by Eileen McMahon and Theodore J. Karamanski, for Minnesota History 62 (Summer 2010). Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West, eds., Shirley A. Leckie and Nancy J. Parezo, for Journal of American History 96 (June 2009). Creating Minnesota: A History from the Inside Out, by Annette Atkins, for Western Historical Quarterly 39 (Winter 2008). The Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusion Laws in the Nineteenth-Century American West, by Diana L. Ahmad, for Utah Historical Quarterly 75 (Fall 2007). A Time for Peace: Fort Lewis, Colorado, , by Duane A. Smith, for Military History of the West 37 (2007). Confronting Race: Women and Indians on the Frontier, , by Glenda Riley, for Pacific Historical Review 74 (November 2005). Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, by Virginia DeJohn Anderson, for Journal of British Studies 44 (October 2005). Print the Legend: Photography and the American West, by Martha A. Sandweiss, for Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Winter 2004). African American Women Confront the West, , eds. Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, for Great Plains Quarterly 24 (Summer 2004). 6

7 PUBLIC HISTORY EXPERIENCE: Member, Legacy Strategic Agenda Collaborative, Minnesota Association of Local History Museums/Minnesota Historical Society, Principal Investigator, The Historyapolis Project: The Research Phase, Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Grant, Minnesota Historical Society ($82,486), 2014 Consultant and Facilitator, Curriculum Connections Project (5 th Grade U.S. History), Anoka-Hennepin School District, Anoka, MN, Author, From Sustenance to Leisure: The Environmental History of Minnesota, MNopedia (online), Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2011 Chair, Academic Council, Headwaters American History Project, Itasca, MN Area Schools Collaborative, Teaching American History Grant, U.S. Department of Education, Researcher and Author, Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN, Resulted in The Faith of Our Forebears: One Hundred Years at Mount Olive Lutheran Church (Minneapolis, MN: Mount Olive Lutheran Church, 2009) Coordinator and Author, Oral History Project, North Star Chapter, Sierra Club (Minnesota), Resulted in A Light to Reckon By: North Star Sierrans in Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN: North Star Chapter, Sierra Club, 2003) History Day Campus Coordinator, National History Day in Minnesota Program, Minnesota Historical Society and University of Minnesota, Intern for Archival Research, Education Department, Minnesota Historical Society, 1994 TEACHING: Augsburg College, 2005-present America to 1815 Nineteenth-Century U.S. Twentieth-Century U.S. Modern Latin American History Democracy in Trump s America Globalization and Women s Grassroots Movements in Latin Co-taught courses: America (study-abroad, Nicaragua) Public History U.S. Environmental History U.S. Urban Environmental History The North American West Civic Agency in American Life The Civil War and Reconstruction Race and American Memory Senior Seminar: Gender in Twentieth-Century America Senior Seminar: The Nonpartisan League!Augsburg Seminar for First Year Students!Environmental Connections: Introduction to Environmental Studies!Margins as Center: Mid-Level Feminist Theory!Indigeneity and Nation-Building in Bolivia (study-abroad) 7

8 State University of New York at Buffalo, !U.S. History,) 1877 to Present!U.S. Environmental History!The U.S. West!Women and Gender in the U.S. West!U.S. Environmental History (graduate seminar)!north American West (graduate seminar) Utah State University, ! U.S. History to 1877! The American West! U.S. West (graduate seminar) University of Minnesota, ! U.S. History, Through Reconstruction! U.S. History, ! U.S. Women s History (directed graduate readings)! U.S. Rural History (directed graduate readings)! Masculinities in U. S. History! The American West: Film & History ADVISING: Undergraduate Grant Berg, Fight for Your Right: Black St. Paul s Struggle for Democracy at Home and Abroad During World War II, Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship ($4000), Augsburg College, 2017 Nicholas Stewart-Bloch, Changing With the Times: Midland Cooperative and the Shifting Political Economy of America, Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship ($2000), Augsburg College, [Published as Nick Stewart-Bloch, From Cooperative Commonwealth to Yardstick Capitalism: Midland s Evolving Vision of Cooperation in Mid-Century Minnesota, Minnesota History 66, no. 1 (Spring 2018): 6-19.] Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, The Battle of the Bookstores and Gay Sexual Liberation in Minneapolis, Departmental Honors in History, Augsburg College, [Published as Kevin Ehrman-Solberg, The Battle of the Bookstores and Gay Sexual Liberation in Minneapolis, Middle West Review 3, no. 1 (Fall 2016): 1-24.] Matthew Charboneau, Catholic Temperance Movements in the Twin Cities, Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship ($4000), Augsburg College, 2010 Schuyler Tilson, Bringing Dakota History to Fort Snelling, Departmental Honors in History, Augsburg College, 2010 Christopher Shockey, Minnesotans and U.S. Imperialism in the Philippines, , Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship ($4000), Augsburg College, 2007 Christina Quick, The Ku Klux Klan and Minneapolis Politics, , Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship ($4000), Augsburg College,

9 Graduate Outside Reader: Jonathan C. Bergman, The Shape of Disaster and the Universe of Relief: A Social History of Disaster Relief and the Hurricane of 38, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo (2008). Outside Reader: Terrianne K. Schulte, Grassroots at the Water s Edge: The League of Women s Voters and the Struggle to Save Lake Erie, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo (2006). Committee Member: Jennifer L. Holland, Salt Lake City Is Our Selma: The Equal Rights Amendment and the Transformation of the Politics of Gender in Utah, M.A. thesis, Department of History, Utah State University (2005). PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Member, Board of Editors, Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Member, Steering Committee, Coalition for Western Women s History, Judge, Gilder-Lehrman History Teacher of the Year Award (Minnesota), Member, Editorial Board, Women s Western Voices Monograph Series, University of Arizona Press, Co-chair, 2017 Program Committee, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Program Reviewer, Department of History, St. Cloud State University, 2017 Take a Historian to School and Teacher-Author Luncheon, Western History Association, 2016 Member, Hamlin Garland Prize Committee, Midwestern History Association, 2016 Co-chair, 2016 Local Arrangements Committee, Western History Association, Member, Board of Editors, Western Historical Quarterly, Member, American Historical Association Tuning Project, Chair, Branded Session Committee, Coalition for Western Women s History, 2014 Reviewer, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Proposals, 2013 Chair, Ray Allen Billington Award Committee, Organization of American Historians, Member, Trennert-Iverson Student Scholarship Committee, Western History Association, Member, 2012 Annual Conference Program Committee, Western History Association, Member, Irene Ledesma Prize Committee, Coalition for Western Women s History, Judge, Solon J. Buck Award (for best article in Minnesota History),

10 Referee: University of Chicago Press; University of Nebraska Press; University of Washington Press; University of Oklahoma Press; University of Arizona Press (2); Western Historical Quarterly (4); Environmental History; Gender & History; Journal of the American Academy of Religion; Environmental Justice; Environment and Planning D: Society and Space; Minnesota History (3); Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; North Dakota History; The Good Society (2) ; Agricultural History (2) Graduate Assistant, 1997 Annual Conference Program Committee, Western History Association, INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE: Content Advisor, Secondary Education Social Studies License, Augsburg University, Civic Studies Fellow, Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Augsburg University, Member, Sabo Symposium Planning Committee, Augsburg College, 2016 Member, Social Work Search Committee, Augsburg College, 2015 Member, Faculty Senate, Augsburg College, Member and Co-Chair, Committee on Personnel Policies, Augsburg College, Chair, World History Search Committee, Augsburg College, Adviser, Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society (Alpha Mu Lambda), Augsburg College, Member, Environmental Stewardship Committee, Augsburg College, Member, Honorary Degree and Commencement Speaker Committee, Augsburg College, Co-Adviser, Coalition for Student Activism, Augsburg College, Adviser, Augsburg History Club, Augsburg College, Green by 2019 Committee, Augsburg College, 2009 Member, Convocation Committee, Augsburg College, Member, Canadian Studies Advisory Committee, Augsburg College, 2006 Member, Anne Pederson Women s Resource Center Planning Committee, Augsburg College, 2006 Vocation Seminar for Faculty, Augsburg College, Member, African American History Search Committee, University of Minnesota,

11 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS: American Historical Association Organization of American Historians Western History Association American Society for Environmental History Association for the Study of Food and Society Coalition for Western Women s History National Council on Public History Minnesota Historical Society American Association of University Professors 11

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Priscilla A. Dowden-White, Ph.D. 6178 Westminster Place St. Louis, Missouri 63112 (314)727-7822 (h) (314)516-5723 (w) padhist@umsl.edu Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION Indiana University, Bloomington, Ph.D.