V. I. T. A 2017 David John Wishart Faculty of Geography University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0973 402/472-3576 Present Position: Professor, Faculty of Geography College of Arts and Sciences University of Nebraska-Lincoln Education: Ph.D., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1971 Dissertation: An Historical Geography of the Fur Trade on the Upper Missouri, 1807-1843 M.A., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1968 Thesis: The Changing Position and Nature of the Frontier of Settlement on the Eastern Margins of the Northern Great Plains, 1854-1920 B.A., University of Sheffield, England, 1967 Professional Experience: Professor of Geography, 2008-present Professor and Chair, Dept. of Anthropology & Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2002-2008 Visiting Lecturer, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Sept./Oct. 1996
Professor, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1986-2002 Foreign Expert, Guangzhou English Language Center, Zhongshan University, China P.R., 1986-1987 Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1978-1986 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1974-1978 Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Arizona, summer 1973 Assistant Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Geography, Beloit College, 1972-1974 Temporary Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Arizona, 1971-1972
Research Grants, Fellowships, and Honors: Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1970-71, $5,000. Junior Research Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, summer 1976, $1,200. University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award, 1978. Research Council Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, fall 1978, Sabbatical. Senior Research Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, summer 1979, $2,200. Paul Dennis Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, summer 1983, $4,914. Nebraska Committee for the Humanities, Summer Fellowship 1984, $2,500. Research Council Summer Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1990, $5,000. American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid, 1990, $2,000. Center for Great Plains Studies, Summer Fellowship, 1990, $5,000. American Council for Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1990, $3,000. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990-93, $85,000 (with Jeanne Kay). National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-98, $240,000 (with John R. Wunder). Nebraska Humanities Council, 1998-99, $11,000. National Endowment for the Humanities, 1999-2001, $138,000 (with John R. Wunder). Nebraska State Historical Society Research Grant, 2000, $1,000. Nebraska Humanities Council, 2002, $3,091 (with Mary Liz Jameson). National Endowment for the Humanities, 2002, $8,100. Canadian Embassy Grant, 2002, $2,300. Nebraska Humanities Council, 2002, $5,000. National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003, $24,000. The Chancellor s Distinguished Lecture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (2004). Innocents Society, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Inducted 2007. Research Council Grant in Aid, 2011, $3,800. Chair, Plenary Session, Indian-White Relations in Historical Perspective, The Making of the Great Plains, Center for Great Plains Studies Symposium, March 30, 2012. UNL Parent Association Award, 2011 (6 th time) Articles and Chapters (selected from 33): Cultures in Co-operation and Conflict: Indians in the Fur Trade on the Northern Great Plains, 1807-1840, Journal of Historical Geography, 2 (1976), pp. 311-28. The Dispossession of the Pawnee, Annals, Association of American Geographers, 69 (1979), pp. 382-401. I ll était une fois les trappeurs, L histoire 72 (1984), pp. 40-46.
! 4 The Pawnee Claims Case, 1947-64, in Imre Sutton (ed.) Irredeemable America: The Indians Estate and Land Claims (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), pp. 157-86. Settling the Great Plains, 1854-1930, in Robert D. Mitchell and Paul A. Groves (eds.) North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent (Rowman and Allanhead, 1987), pp. 255-78. Second edition, 2001. Compensation for Dispossession: Payments to the Indians for Their Lands on the Northern Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century, National Geographic Research, 6 (1990), pp. 94-109. The Roles and Status of Men and Women in Nineteenth Century Omaha and Pawnee Societies: Postmodernist Uncertainties and Empirical Evidence, The American Indian Quarterly, 19 (1995), pp. 509-18. Land Ownership, Population, and Jurisdiction: The Case of the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe v. North Dakota Public Service Commission, (with Oliver Froehling), American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 20 (1996), pp. 33-58. The Selectivity of Historical Representation, Journal of Historical Geography, 23 (1997), pp. 111-18. The Death of Edward McMurty, Great Plains Quarterly, 19 (1999), pp. 5-22. Belated Justice? The Indian Claims Commission and the Waitangi Tribunal, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 25 (2001), pp. 81-112. Period and Region, Progress in Human Geography, 28 (2004), pp. 305-19. Natural Areas, Regions, and Two Centuries of Environmental Change on the Great Plains, Great Plains Quarterly, 26 (2006), pp. 147-66. True West: Cycles of Violence, Review essay, Times Literary Supplement (May 25, 2007), p.10. Books: The Fur Trade of the American West, 1807-1840. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, (1979), 237 pp. Reprinted as Bison Book (University of Nebraska Press, 1992). Human Geography: People, Places, and Cultures. Co-authored with Brian W. Blouet and Robert H. Stoddard, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1986), 400 pp. Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 1989).
! 5 An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994). J.B. Jackson Prize for Best Book in North American Human Geography with appeal to a popular audience (also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize). Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, editor (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press 2004). A Best Reference Source, Library Journal 2004; Outstanding Reference Source, American Library Association, 2005; Editor s Choice, Booklist 2004; Outstanding Academic Title, Choice magazine, 2005. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians, editor (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2007). With Michael Forsberg, Dan O Brian, and Ted Kooser. The Great Plains: America s Lingering Wild (Chicago: University of Chicago, 2009). American Association of Publishers, Prose Award, Best Book in Life Sciences, 2009; Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Distinguished Book Award, 2010; selected as one of the 20 titles in the Association of American University Presses Best of Best program, 2010; one of the top ten travel books of 2010, as selected by Booklist. The Last Days of the Rainbelt. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2014). Best Nonfiction History Book. The Nebraska Center for the Book, 2014. Plains Indians. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2016). Best Reference Book. The Nebraska Center for the Book, 2017. With J. Clark Archer, Les Howard, Fred Shelly, Donald Wilhite, and Richard Edwards. Atlas of Nebraska (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2017). Other Professional Activities: Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, SNR, 2015 to present. Member, Graduate Committee, SNR, 2013-2017. Chief Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska, 1974-2014. Book Review Editor, Journal of Historical Geography, 1988-1994.
! 6 Consultant, The Platte River Road, NET Television, 1991. Consultant, The Oregon Trail, NET Television, 1991-2. Expert Witness, Devils Lake Sioux v. North Dakota Public Service Commission, et al., U.S. District Court, North Dakota, 1992. Consultant, History of Nebraska, NET Television, 1996-7. Editorial Board, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2001- present. Consultant, Next Exit, NET Television, 2002-3. Segment, Adrift on the Great Plains, Next Exit, April 2002. National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History Teacher s Workshops, 2004, 2005, 2006. Consultant, Standing Bear, NET Television, 2006- present. Member, Board of Trustees, Nebraska State Historical Society, 2006-present. Consultant, Beef State, NET Television and Nebraska State Historical Society, 2008. Member, Globe Book Award Committee, Association of American Geographers, 2011-14. Consultant and featured, Painting Nebraska s Legacy, NET Television, 2017.