Curriculum Vitae Eric V. Meeks

Curriculum Vitae Eric V. Meeks eric.meeks@nau.edu Office: History Department Northern Arizona University Liberal Arts, Box 6023 Flagstaff, AZ 86011 (928) 523-8428 Home: 3610 N. Stone Crest St. Flagstaff, AZ 86004 (928) 214-6033 Education Ph.D., History, University of Texas at Austin, August 2001 Advisor: Neil Foley Dissertation Title: Border Citizens: Race, Labor, and Identity in South-Central Arizona, 1910-1965 M.A., University of Texas at Austin, May 1996 B.A. (magna cum laude), Arizona State University, May 1990 Professional Experience Current Position: Associate Professor, History Department, Northern Arizona University Past Positions: Chair, History Department, NAU, summer 2012-summer 2015 Graduate Program Coordinator, History Department, NAU, fall 2010-spring 2012 Associate Professor, NAU, fall 2007-present Assistant Professor, NAU, fall 2001-spring 2007 Courses Taught at NAU Graduate Reading Seminars: Indigenous Borderlands in North America (Mexico, U.S., Canada) The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Making Nations and Identities in the Borderlands Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. and the World Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Global Perspective Peoples of the Southwest (for Masters of Liberal Studies Program) Graduate Research Seminars: Research on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Undergraduate Lecture Courses: Chicana/o History The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands U.S. History Survey - to 1865 U.S. History Survey - since 1865 Undergraduate Seminars: Historians and the Study of History

Race and Ethnicity in the United States (reading seminar) Senior Capstone Seminar: Research on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Other Teaching Experience: Distance Learning Instructor, Native Americans and the United States, Center for Continuing and Extended Education, University of Texas at Austin, April 1998-July 2001 Instructor, U.S. History, 1865-present, University of Texas at Austin, fall 2000 and spring 2001 Instructor, U.S.- Mexican Borderlands: 1821-present, Portland State University, summer 1999 Supplemental Instructor, Learning Skills Center, University of Texas at Austin, spring 1997 and spring 1998 Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Texas at Austin, spring 1995-summer 1998; summer 2000; summer 2001. Courses: U.S. History both surveys; Mexican American History; Texas History to 1846; Irish Emigration; U.S. Culture in the Cold War Masters Students Directed to Completion at NAU Joseph A. Ukockis (thesis Bound by Barbed Wire: The People s Movement of San Miguel County, New Mexico, 1887-1892, spring 2016) MacKenzie L. Uliasz (thesis Vigilantism: Violence and Order in Cochise County, Arizona, 1881 to 1889, spring 2014) Louis Gregory McAllister (thesis John Taylor and Racial Formation in the Ute Borderlands, 1870-1935, fall 2013) Jacob Padon (thesis The Navajo Indian Irrigration Project, spring 2013) Donovan Wood (non-thesis, spring 2013) Nona Valencius (non-thesis, fall 2012) Kathleen Peters (thesis Policing Sexuality: 20 th Century United States Immigration History and Gay Rights Activism, spring 2012) Alixandra Rael (non-thesis, spring 2011) Lindsey Passenger (thesis A Culture and Language of Their Own: Redefining Education and Citizenship in Guadalupe, Arizona, spring 2010) Jason Naaktgeboren (non-thesis, spring 2009) Patricia Jo. King (thesis City Indians: Urbanization and the Evolution of Modern American Indian Tribalism, Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1950-1970, summer 2006) Julie Maiorana (thesis "An American Mexican Family: Transnationalism, Cross-Cultural Marriage, and Identity Formations in the Twentieth Century," spring 2006) Heather Richards (non-thesis, spring 2004)

Ph.D. Students Directed to Completion at NAU Kendra Moore (Dissertation From Fiends to Ladies: Race, Gender and Crime in Arizona Territory, fall 2011) Publications Books: Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007) * * recognized with the Research and Creativity Award as the Most Significant Scholarly Work at Northern Arizona University, fall 2010 * awarded a Southwest Book Award by the Border Regional Libraries Association, 2008 * finalist for the Public History Award from the National Council on Public History, 2008 Book manuscript in progress: The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: A Transnational History Journal Articles: Protecting the White Citizen Worker: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in South-Central Arizona, 1929-1945, The Journal of the Southwest 48, 1 (spring 2006): 91-113. The Tohono O odham, Wage Labor, and Resistant Adaptation, 1900-1930, The Western Historical Quarterly 34, 4 (winter 2003): 468-489.* * recognized with the Bolton-Kinnaird Award for the best article on the Spanish Borderlands published in an academic journal in 2003 * recognized with the Oscar O. Winther Award for the best article appearing in The Western Historical Quarterly in 2003. Cross-Ethnic Political Mobilization and Yaqui Identity Formation in Guadalupe, Arizona, Reflexiones: New Directions in Mexican American Studies, 1997, ed. Neil Foley (Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1998): 77-108. [*NOTE: This was an annual journal] Reviews: Standing on Common Ground: the Making of a Sunbelt Borderlands, by Geraldo Cadava, H- Diplo Roundtable Review, XVI, 19 (2015). https://networks.h- net.org/node/28443/discussions/62841/h-diplo-roundable-review-vol-xvi-no-19-2015- standing-common-ground Cultural Construction of Empire: The U.S. Army in Arizona and New Mexico, by Janne Lahti, Pacific Historical Review 83, 3 (August 2015): 535-537. River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands, by Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez, The American Historical Review 119, 2 (April 2015): 569-570. Line in the Sand, a History of the Western Border, by Rachel St. John, Journal of American Ethnic History 33, 1 (September 2013 ): 88-89.

Beyond Borders: A History of Mexican Migration to the United States, by Tim Henderson, The Journal of Contemporary History 48, 3 (July 2013): 625-626. Migra: A History of the U.S. Border Patrol, by Kelly Lytle Hernández, in The Journal of American History 98, 1 (spring 2011): 230-231. Stealing the Gila: The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation, 1848-1921, by David H. DeJong, in The Western Historical Quarterly 44, 2 (summer 2011): 243-244. Undermining Race: Ethnic Identities in Arizona Copper Camps, 1880-1920, by Philis Cancilla Martinelli, in The American Historical Review 116, 1 (Febrary 2011): 181-182. Dreaming of Sheep in Navajo Country, by Marsha Weisiger, in Ethnohistory 58, 2 (spring 2011), 35-36. Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands, by Katherine Benton-Cohen, in Labor: Studies of Working-Class History in the Americas 7, 3 (fall 2010), 94-96. Shadows at Dawn: A Borderlands Massacre and the Violence of History by Karl Jacoby, in The Western Historical Quarterly 41, 3 (fall 2010): 372. Corridors of Migration: The Odyssey of Mexican Laboers, 1600-1933, by Rodolfo F. Acuña, in The Journal of Arizona History 50, 1 (spring 2009): 80-81. Working the Navajo Way: Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century, by Colleen O Neil, in The Journal of Arizona History 48, 2 (summer 2007): 215-216. Native Pathways: American Indian Culture and Economic Development in the Twentieth Century, eds. Brian Hosmer and Colleen O Neill, in The Western Historical Quarterly 38, 1 (spring 2007): 71-72. Culture of Empire: American Writers, Mexico, and Mexican Immigrants, 1880-1930, by Gilbert González, in The Pacific Historical Review 75, 3 (August 2006): 512-514. La Raza Unida, directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino, in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 62, 4 (July 2006): 195. Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History, ed. Samuel Truett and Elliott Young, in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 62, 3 (January 2006): 472-473. American Indians in U.S. History, by Roger L. Nichols, in The Journal of Arizona History 46, 2 (summer 2005): 189-191. Borderman: Memoirs of Federico Jose Maria Ronstadt, by Edward F. Ronstadt in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 61, 2 (October 2004): 304-305. Presentations Race and Inter-Ethnic Relations in the Borderlands, Nature, Culture, and History at the Nation s Edge, NEH Planning Seminar hosted by Arizona State University, Southwest Research Station, American Museum of Natural History, Chiricahua Mountains, AZ, spring 2013

Toward a Sythesis of U.S.-Mexican Borderlands History, Comparative Border Studies Colloquium, ASU School of Transborder Studies, Tempe, January 2013 Arizona History at the Centennial, Panel Participant/Presenter, Tucson Festival of Books, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 2012 Does Arizona History Matter?, Panel Participant/Presenter for Zócalo Public Square, Tucson, February 2011 Forging Identities: Race and Ethnicity in the Arizona Borderlands, Panel Participant/Presenter, workshop at the Tucson Festival of Books, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, March 2011 From Statehood to SB1070, invited presentation for the panel "Insights from Border Studies: National and International Practices, Policies, and Consequences," Diversity Symposium, sponsored by Ethnic Studies, the Faculty Development Program, and the Office of the President, Northern Arizona University, October 1, 2010. Indian Policy, Racial Ideology and Identity in Mexico and the United States: the Case of the Tohono O odham, Symposium on Latin America and the Borderlands, Northern Arizona University, April 23, 2010 The Chicano Movement and Cultural Citizenship, invited talk at Salt of the Earth Labor College, Tucson, Arizona, November 2009 Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, talk and seminar/workshop for the 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for University and College Teachers: Nature and History at the Nation s Edge: Field Institute in Environmental and Borderlands History, Tucson, Arizona, June 19, 2009 Panel Presenter, Insights from Borderlands Studies panel, Diversity Symposium, sponsored by Ethnic Studies, the Faculty Development Program, and the Office of the President, Northern Arizona University, March 2008. New Deal Economics and the Construction of the Tohono O odham Tribe, Colloquium on Indians, Labor, and Capitalist Culture, Newberry Library, Chicago, September 22-23, 2006 Not Indians in the Proper Sense of the Word: The Yaqui Struggle for Tribal Recognition, Western History Association Conference, Phoenix, October 2005 Mestizaje, Miscegenation, and Indian Identity in Southern Arizona, Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Tucson, April 2005 Border Citizens: Making Indians and Mexicans in Arizona, fellowship talk at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 9 November 2005 The History of Arizona s Chicano Movement, a workshop for the Regional Conference of the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanos de Aztlán (MEChA), Northern Arizona University, 26 February 2005

Dismantling the Jim Crow Southwest: Race, Civil Rights, and the Myth of Western Progressivism in Arizona, invited talk for the Ethnic Studies Program, Northern Arizona University, October 2004 Mexican Americans and Multicultural Education, talk and workshop, Summer Academy for Teaching American History: New Strategies for Teaching Multicultural History, Northern Arizona University, July 2003 The Tohono O odham, Wage Labor, and Resistant Adaptation, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 2003 Defining the White Citizen Worker : Mexicans and Okies in Depression-Era Arizona, Conference of the National Association of Ethnic Studies, Phoenix, April 2003 Mexican Americans and Education in the Twentieth-Century Southwest, Diversity Workshop, Northern Arizona University Faculty Development Program, 22 May 2002 Barrio as Borderland: Work, Gender, and Identity among the Indians and Mexicans of Tucson, American Studies Association Conference, Detroit, October 2000 Evolving Gender Roles and the Political Mobilization of Yaqui Women, Western History Association Conference, Sacramento, October 1998 "The Yaquis of Guadalupe: Strategies of Ethnicity in an Urbanizing Village, American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, San Francisco, August 1996 "The Yaquis of Guadalupe: The Political and Social Strategies of Ethnicity, 1960-1980, Southwestern Historical Association - Southwestern Social Science Association, Houston, March 1996 Chair and/or Commentator at Professional Conferences or Symposiums: Commentator, Native Americans and Immigrant Others in the North American West, Western History Association Conference, Denver, CO, October 2012 Commentator, Mixed and Transnational Families in the Borderlands, Western History Association Conference, Oakland, CA, October 2011 Chair, Transnational Natives in International Landscapes: Comparing Indigenous Migrations, Federal Policies and International Boundaries across the Borderlands of Canada, Mexico and the United States, Western History Association Conference, Tahoe, Nevada, October 2010 Chair, Constructing Social Order in Arizona, The Arizona-New Mexico Joint History Convention, Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ, April 2007 Chair, Native Women s Identities: Between Tradition and Modernity, Women s History/Gender Symposium, Northern Arizona University, March 2006 Commentator and Chair, American Indian Workers, Unions, and Sovereignty in the Twentieth Century, Southwest Labor Studies Association Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, May 2005 Chair, Activism and Community, Arizona History Convention, Flagstaff, April 2005

Scholarships, Grants, and Awards The Bill & Rita Clements Senior Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, fall-2016-spring 2017 Northern Arizona University College of Arts and Letters Summer Research Grant, 2016 Research and Creativity Award The Most Significant Scholarly Work at Northern Arizona University, for Border Citizens, awarded by the Vice President for Research, 2010 Southwest Book Award for Border Citizens, 2009, awarded by the Border Regional Libraries Association Finalist for the Public History Award for Border Citizens, from the National Council on Public History, 2008 Intramural Research Grants, Northern Arizona University, 2002, 2003, 2008 Clements Research Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, fall 2005 Bolton-Kinnaird Award for the best article published in 2003 on the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands (for The Tohono O odham, Labor, and Resistant Adaptation ) awarded by the Western History Association, fall 2004 Oscar O. Winther Award (2004) for the best article appearing in the Western Historical Quarterly in 2003 (for The Tohono O odham, Labor, and Resistant Adaptation ), awarded by the Board of Editors of the WHQ, fall 2004 University Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1999-2000 Morris K. Udall Research Grant, University of Arizona, 1999 Walter Prescott Webb Southwestern Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas History Department, 1998-1999 Western History Association Trennert-Iverson Award, 1998 Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Prize for best paper in Mexican American Studies, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1997 Professional Service NAU History Department: Chair, History Department, summer 2012-spring 2015 Graduate Coordinator, History Department, summer 2010-spring 2012 Chair, History Graduate Studies Committee, summer 2010-spring 2012 Member, Latin American History Search Committee, 2010-11 Chair, Annual Review Committee, NAU, fall 2009-spring 2010 Chair, Undergraduate Committee, fall 2008-spring 2009 Member, Undergraduate Committee, spring 2008 Member, Graduate Studies Committee, fall 2004-spring 2007 Member, Annual Review Committee, NAU, 2002-2003, 2003-4

Chair, Search Committee for a Visiting Assistant Professor,U.S. History Education, NAU History Department and Page Unified School District, 2002-2003 Member, Secondary Education Committee/Curriculum Committee, fall 2002-2003 University (NAU): Member, Academic Chair s Council, summer 2012-summer 2015 Member, University Graduate Committee, fall 2010-spring 2012 Member Dissertation Defense Subcommittee Member Bylawys Subcommittee Interim Director, Latin American Studies Program, NAU, spring 2009 Member, Ethnic Studies Steering Committee, NAU, fall 2002 fall 2007 Affiliate, Latin American Studies Program, NAU, fall 2004-present Senator, NAU Faculty Senate, three year term, fall 2002 spring 2005 Member, Commission on Ethnic Diversity, NAU, fall 2001 spring 2005 Member, Diversity Subcommittee of the University Curriculum Committee, NAU, fall 2004- spring 2005 Member, Search Committee, Director for the Ethnic Studies Program, NAU, spring 2004 Chair, Search Committee, Director of Teaching American History Grant for NAU and Page Unified School District, 2002-3 Member, Search Committee, African American Studies, NAU Ethnic Studies, fall 2002-2003 Member, Moral Courage Award Committee, Martin-Springer Institute, NAU, spring 2002 External Academic Service: Walter Rundell Award Committee (award for dissertation research), Western History Association, 2013-2015 Advisor - NEH Grant Proposal - Nature, Culture, and History at the Nation's Edge, 2013-2016 Robert F. Heizer Article Award Committee (for the best article of the year on ethnohistory), American Society for Ethnohistory, 2011 Book Manuscript Referee for University of Arizona Press, summer 2011 Book Proposal Referee for Routledge Press, spring 2011 Member of the Board of Editorial Consultants for The Journal of Arizona History, 2008-2011 Member of the Labor and Working Class History Association Program Committee, 2008-2010 Article Referee: The Western Historical Quarterly (3 times: spring 2004, summer 2004, and fall 2005); The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History (fall 2002); The Pacific Historical Review (2 times: 1999 and spring 2008); The Journal of the Southwest (2 times, spring 2008 and summer 2009); The Journal of Arizona History (1 time, spring 2011)