Libby R. Tronnes Curriculum vitae Laurentide Hall University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Whitewater, Wisconsin 53190 800 West Main St. 608 658-5039; lrtronnes@wisc.edu Education Ph.D., in Progress, University of Wisconsin-Madison, expected completion Spring 2017. Dissertation: We Know We Will Suffer : Removals and Returns of the Rock River Ho-Chunk in early-nineteenth-century Western Great Lakes. Committee: Susan Johnson, William Cronon, Ned Blackhawk. M.A., 2007, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thesis: Contested Place: The Menominee Warriors Society, Native and Non-Native Placemaking, and Identity Construction in Rural Wisconsin, 1975. Committee: Ned Blackhawk, Susan Johnson, and A. Finn Enke. B.A., 2003, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. Research & Teaching Fields: Colonial America, Early Republic, North American West; Borderlands; Violence and Frontier Settlement; Native American; Gender/Women s History; Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity; Settler Colonialism; Place- Making; Twentieth-century World Teaching: United States History, Colonial Period to 1877, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Spring and Fall 2015; Fall 2016. United States History, 1877 to Present, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Spring 2014. Historical Perspectives (Late-Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century World History), University of Wisconsin- Whitewater, Spring 2013, Fall 2014, Spring 2015. The Native American Experience, (Ethnic Studies), University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Fall 2012. American Indian History, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Fall 2015; Fall 2012, Spring, 2011, Spring, 2010. History of the American West to 1850, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2011. Wisconsin History, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring, 2017. L. R. Tronnes C.V. Page 1 of 5
Guest Lectures: County Stadium: Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, April 30 2012. Episodes of Native and Non-Native Encounter in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Mounds, Treaties, and Environmentalism in Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, April 2009. Romanticism and Revitalization in AIM and other Indian Protests in the Nineteenth Sixties and Seventies, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, May 6, 2004. North American Indian Revitalization, Resistance, and Militancy, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, November 18, 2003. Service, UW-Madison: Undergraduate Council Committee, University of Wisconsin-Madison,, year 2013-14. Academic Assessing the Historian s Craft, Project Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2013- Spring 2014. Responsibilities: Assessing undergraduate student learning and skill development as history majors; developing, running History 201 (historical methods) teaching workshops for faculty and TAs; administering surveys, collection/analysis of data through Qualtrics. Panel participant, Teaching Assistant Mentoring, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2009. UW-Platteville: Conference and Program Committee, Wisconsin History Symposium, People and the Land, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, April 4-5, 2014. Act 31 Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, October 26, 2012., UW-Whitewater: Chair/Commenter, UW-Whitewater History Department Senior Research Conference, UW-Whitewater, Spring 2014, Spring 2015. Public: The Rock River Ho-Chunk Indians and the Black Hawk War: A New History, Fort Atkinson Club Lecture Series, Fort Atkinson, WI, May 3, 2016. The Rock River Ho-Chunk Indians and the Black Hawk War: A New History, Johnson Creek Public Library, Johnson Creek, WI, April 12, 2016. L. R. Tronnes C.V. Page 2 of 5
Introduction to Historical Methods and the Rock River Ho-Chunk Indians in the Black Hawk War, East Troy High School, April 2014, October 2015. Consultant for National History Day projects, Edgerton Middle School, February 2014. How did the Aztec Homeland come to Exist in the Wisconsin Territory?, Keynote Speaker, Hoard Historical Museum Annual Membership Dinner, Fort Atkinson, WI, February 26, 2014. Why do we celebrate Black Hawk when the Rock River Ho-Chunk are the Indigenous people of this place?, Keynote Speaker, Hoard Historical Museum Volunteer Enrichment Program, Fort Atkinson, WI, April 24, 2014. Interview with Wisconsin Public Television, In Wisconsin, Looking for Lapham, August, 2010, (air-date March 24, 2011). Presentation, What to do with a History degree? University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, April 26, 2006. Presentation, Getting Into Graduate School, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, February 2, 2004. Publications Review of Land Too Good for Indians: Northern Indian Removal, by John P. Bowes, Annals of Iowa 74, no. 4 (forthcoming, Winter 2015) Mr. Indigenous Goes to Washington: Making Indian Law and Policy in the Twentieth Century. Review Essay of Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory, by Christian W. McMillen and Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity, by J. Kehaulani Kauanui. American Quarterly, 64, no. 1, (March 2012): 153-161. Linking Landscape, Place, and Identity: Edgerton s Agricultural Heritage and Wisconsin s Tobacco Past, Edgerton Reporter (Tobacco Days, Special Issue), July 2007. Where is John Wayne? The Menominee Warriors Society, Indian Militancy, and Social Unrest During the Alexian Brothers Novitiate Takeover, American Indian Quarterly, 26, no. 4 (2002): 526-558. Selected Presentations Dancing Indians, Daring Escapes, and Domestic Inconveniences: Adventure Tales and Happy Endings from Juliette Kinzie s Wau-Bun in the Context of Ho-Chunk Removal, 1830-1833, Western Historical Association 54 th Annual Conference, Newport Beach, CA, October 16-19, 2014. The Rock River Ho-Chunks in the Black Hawk War, Wisconsin History Symposium, UW-Platteville, April 3-5, 2014. Out with the Ho-Chunk, In with the Aztecs: Stories about Place, Belonging, and Aztalan in Wisconsin s Rock-river Country, The American Society for Ethnohistory, Springfield, MO, Nov 7-10, 2012. L. R. Tronnes C.V. Page 3 of 5
Texts of Authority: Moundbuilders, Indians of Unusual Size, and Other Tall Tales about Place, North American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), Mohegan Sun Conference Resort. Uncasville, CT., June 3-6, 2012. Displacing the Indigenous: The Creation of Aztalan in the Wisconsin Territory During Early Settlement, Western History Association, Oakland, CA 2011 Indians of Unusual Size and Other Tall Tales about Place in Native Wisconsin, Committee on Institutional Cooperation American Indian Studies Consortium Spring Graduate Conference. University of Illinois- Urbana-Champaign, April, 2009 Taxpayers and Lawbreakers : The Menominee Warriors Society, Indian Placemaking, and Rural Identity in Northern Wisconsin, 1975, North American Regions, Landscapes, and Peoples: A Research Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 6, 2006. Broken Communities, Hardened Boundaries: Indian and White Relations in Shawano and Menominee Counties Collaborations: Cross Cultural Co-operations and Alliances, Past, Present and Future, Ninth Annual International Wanapitei Aboriginal History and Politics Colloquium, Temagami, Ontario, September 24, 2004. Where is John Wayne? : The Menominee Warriors Society, Indian Militancy, and Social Unrest During the Alexian Brothers Novitiate Takeover, a paper presented at the Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, April, 2004. Awards and Fellowships Mellon-Wisconsin Graduate School Summer Fellowship, Summer 2012. AAUW-Jane Shaw Knox Fort Atkinson Branch Graduate Scholarship, Fall 2011. CIC-American Indian Studies Consortium Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Michigan State University, Fall 2010. Vilas Travel Grant, University of Wisconsin, Summer 2010. Baensch Prize in Wisconsin History, University of Wisconsin, 2008. Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Pre-Dissertator Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Spring 2006. Other Academic Employment Project/Research Assistant for Professor Ned Blackhawk,, University of Madison, 2004-05. Wisconsin- Research Assistant, Attorney General s Office, State of Michigan, 2003-04 Professional Affiliations Western History Association Native American and Indigenous Studies Association L. R. Tronnes C.V. Page 4 of 5
American Historical Association American Association of University Women References Dr. Susan Lee Johnson (Dissertation Advisor) Professor of History Faculty affiliate of the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program and the Gender and Women s Studies Department University of Wisconsin-Madison 5018 Mosse Humanities 455 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706 608-263-1848 sljohnson5@wisc.edu Dr. William Cronon (Dissertation Committee Member) Frederick Jackson Turner and Vilas Research Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies University of Wisconsin-Madison 5009 Mosse Humanities 455 N. Park St. Madison, WI 53706 608-265-6023 wcronon@wisc.edu Ned Blackhawk (Dissertation Committee Member) Professor of History and American Studies Yale University 320 York Street New Haven, CT 06520-8324 203-432-8530 ned.blackhawk@yale.edu L. R. Tronnes C.V. Page 5 of 5