JOSEPH PATRICK KEY History Department P.O. Box 1690 State University, Arkansas 72467 870-972-3046 jkey@astate.edu Education Ph.D. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 2001 M.A. West Texas A&M University 1996 M.A. Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary 1991 B.A. Lyon College 1988 Ph.D. Dissertation: Masters of This Country : The Quapaws and Environmental Change in Arkansas, 1673-1833. University of Arkansas. Elliott West, advisor. Best Dissertation Award, Phi Alpha Theta/ Westerners International M.A. Thesis: Feed Fights: Native Americans and the Survival of European Colonies in North America. West Texas A&M University. Wade Shaffer, advisor. Teaching experience ARKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY Associate Professor, 2009 - present Assistant Professor, 2003-2009 Visiting Assistant Professor, 2002-2003 2010 University Educator of the Year, Arkansas Council for the Social Studies 2007-2008 Board of Trustees Faculty Achievement Award in Teaching Courses taught Graduate: Introduction to Graduate Study of History, Race, Identity and Gender, The Age of John Adams, Travel and Exploration in America, History and Myth of the American West, Native American History, History of Sexuality in America, Southern Indians Seminar Undergraduate: The American West, The American Indian, Senior Seminar: Indians and Explorers, History of Sexuality in America, Colonial North America, Foundations of the American Republic 1783-1850, Honors History of the United States to 1876, History of the United States to 1876, History of the United States since 1876
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Visiting Assistant Professor, Fall 2001 The Invasion of America: American Indian History, Pre-Contact to 1830 UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS Instructor, Spring 2002 History of the American Indian, History of the American People, 1877-Present Lecturer, 1999-2001 History of the American People, 1492-1877, History of the American People, 1877-Present Publications Peer-reviewed Articles Quapaws, The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net, 2007. European Exploration and Settlement, 1541-1802, The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net, 2006. Sarasin, and Pompey Factor, The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net, 2006 Outcasts upon the World : The Louisiana Purchase and the Quapaws, in A Whole Country in Commotion: The Louisiana Purchase and the American Southwest, edited by Patrick Williams et al. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2005),. [An earlier version of this article appeared in Arkansas Historical Quarterly 62 (Fall 2003): 272-88.] The Calumet and the Cross: Religious Encounters in the Lower Mississippi Valley, Arkansas Historical Quarterly 61 (Summer 2002): 152-68. Arkansas, Arkansas Post, New Madrid Earthquake, and Quapaws, in The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, edited by Junius P. Rodriguez. New York: ABC-Clio, 2002. British Attitudes Toward Native Soldiers during the Re-conquest of the Sudan, Ozark Historical Review (Spring 2001): 1-14. [James J. Hudson Award, Department of History, University of Arkansas, 2001] Indians and Ecological Conflict in Territorial Arkansas, Arkansas Historical Quarterly 59 (Summer 2000): 127-46. [Violet B. Gingles Award for best paper in Arkansas history, Arkansas Historical Association, 2000] 2
Pompey Factor (Black Seminole Indian scout) and Sarasin (Quapaw war chief), in Arkansas Biography, edited by Nancy A. Williams and Jeannie M. Whayne. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Something we prized more than gold or silver : Pueblo Food and Coronado s Expedition. Papers of the Thirty-first Annual Dakota Conference on History, Literature, Art, and Archaeology. Compiled by Arthur R. Huseboe and Harry F. Thompson. Sioux Falls: Center for Western Studies, 1999. 386-96. Book reviews Gordon M. Sayre, ed., The Memoir of Lieutenant Dumont, 1715-1747. Arkansas Historical Quarterly, forthcoming. William R. Carter, Indian Alliances and the Spanish in the Southwest, 750-1750. Louisiana History, forthcoming. Brock Thompson, The Un-Natural State: Arkansas and the Queer South. Arkansas Historical Quarterly, forthcoming. Kathleen DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent. The Journal of Southern History 73 (November 2007). Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 66 (Winter 2007): 489-91. Willard Hughes Rollings, Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion 1673-1906: A Cultural Victory. Arkansas Historical Quarterly (Winter 2005): 439-41. Louis F. Burns, A History of the Osage People. Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 36 (April 2005): 50-51. Thomas P. Slaughter, Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness. Agricultural History 78 (Summer 2004): 368-69. Paul A. Johnsgard, Lewis and Clark on the Great Plains: A Natural History. The Annals of Iowa 63 (Spring 2004): 205-206. David M. Wrobel, Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West. New Mexico Historical Review 79 (Spring 2004): 248-50. Daniel K. Richter, Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America. Journal of the West 43 (Spring 2004): 98. 3
Theodore Binnema, Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains. The Annals of Iowa 62 (Fall 2003): 472-73. Conevery Bolton Valencius, The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. The New England Journal of Medicine 348 (6 March 2003): 966-67. Raymond J. DeMallie, ed., Handbook of the North American Indians. V. 13: Plains. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 62 (Summer 2003): 208-10. Dan Flores, Horizontal Yellow: Nature and History in the Near Southwest. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 61 (Spring 2002): 101-102. Donald Edward Davis, Where There are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 60 (Summer 2001): 235-36. Daniel H. Usner, Jr., American Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Social and Economic Histories. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 58 (Winter 1999): 448-50. Presentations and panels Panel Chair, Chances of War, Arkansas Historical Association, Helena, 12 April 2013. The Quapaws in Arkansas, Greene County Historical and Genealogical Society, Paragould, 14 October 2010. Panel commenter, Disease, War and native Americans, Mid-American Conference on History, Little Rock, 23 September 2010. The Quapaws, Monthly lecture series, Social Security Administration, Jonesboro office, 19 November 2009. Native America, United Methodist Women Study Group on Native American History and Culture, Jonesboro, 14 March 2009. Feeding French Explorers, Southeast World History Association, Little Rock, Arkansas, 15 October 2008 Le Bord de l eau: Quapaw-French Encounters, Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri, 28 September 2008, Indians and Settlers in Arkansas, Spring River Gem and Mineral Club, Cherokee Village, Arkansas, 3 July 2008. Joutel and the Hermaphrodite, French Colonial History Society, Quebec City, Quebec, 4
15 May 2008. Joutel s Journey Through Arkansas, College of Humanities and Social Sciences Lecture Series, 16 April 2008. Religion and the Quapaw-French Encounter, Phi Alpha Theta National Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 4 January 2008. Panel Chair, Arkansas' Path to Integration and Civil Rights," Arkansas Historical Association, Little Rock, 28 April 2007. Masters of This Country : The Quapaws in Arkansas, 1673-1833, Old Independence Regional Museum, Batesville, Arkansas, 29 March 2007 A Company of Gypsies : Coureurs de Bois in the Mississippi Valley, Southern Historical Association, Birmingham, Alabama, 18 November 2006. American Indians in Arkansas, Pocahontas Sesquicentennial Lecture Series, Pocahontas, Arkansas, 13 July 2006. Sharing the Land, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Consultation Meeting with Tribal Nations, Little Rock, Arkansas, 19 April 2006. The Quapaw Eye for the French Guy: Fashioning Gender in the 18 th -Century Mississippi Valley, American Society for Ethnohistory, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 17 November 2005. Indians and the Settlement of Arkansas, Sharp County Historical Society, Ash Flat, Arkansas, 24 July 2005. Panel Participant, Before the Trail of Tears: Indian Removal from Arkansas, Arkansas Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, Little Rock, 24 July 2004. Indian West and Cotton South: Conflicting Visions of Arkansas in the Early Nineteenth Century, Western History Association, Fort Worth, 11 October 2003. The Quapaws and Their Neighbors in Arkansas before 1803, Colonial Arkansas: Before the Louisiana Purchase, Conference and Powwow at the Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, 9 October 2003. The Quapaws and Their Neighbors, Central Mississippi Valley Archeological Society, Jonesboro, 16 April 2003. Roundtable Participant, The Louisiana Purchase and the Middle Mississippi Valley: Peoples and Cultures in Transition, Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 21 September 2002. 5
Panel Chair, Travelers Experiences and Impact in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century America, Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 21 September 2002. Masters of This Country : Re-Viewing Quapaw History, Native American Studies Colloquium, Dartmouth College, 29 November 2001. Economics, Forum on the Contributions of Native Americans to Southeast Arkansas, Saracen Memorial Pow Wow, Pine Bluff, 23 September 2000. The Ecology of Indian Removal: The Case of the Quapaws, American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch, Park City, Utah, 5 August 2000. One Parish, Many Peoples: Catholicism and Ethnicity at Eighteenth-Century Arkansas Post, Arkansas Historical Association, Springdale, 15 April 2000. Slave Life in Colonial Arkansas: Sources and Preliminary Conclusions, Graduate Student Conference on African American History, University of Memphis, 22 October 1999. The Quapaws and Colonial Louisiana, Gulf South History and Humanities Conference, Pensacola, Florida, 15 October 1999. Something we prized more than gold or silver : Pueblo Food and Coronado s Expedition. Dakota Conference on History, Literature, Art and Archaeology, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 29 May 1999. Indians and Ecological Conflict in Territorial Arkansas. Arkansas Historical Association, Pine Bluff, 16 April 1999. Feed Fights: Native Americans and the Survival of European Colonies in North America. Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 18 September 1998. Academic Awards Eleanor Lane Fund, Office of Research and Technology Transfer 2008 Faculty Research Reassignment Award, Office of Research and Technology Transfer, Arkansas State University 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008-09, 2009-10 Faculty Research Reassignment Award, Office of Research and Technology Transfer, Arkansas State University Spring, 2006/Fall, 2006/Fall, 2007 Dean s Research Award, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Arkansas State University 2004 Travel Grant, Graduate School and Department of History, University of Arkansas 1999 6
Mary Hudgins Research Grant, Department of History, University of Arkansas 1999 Graduate Assistantship, University of Arkansas 1998-2001 Scholarship, West Texas A&M University 1995-96 Presidential Scholarship, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary 1988-89 Moseley Fellowship, Lyon College 1988 Hansard Scholar, Birkbeck College, University of London and the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government 1987 Service Arkansas Historical Association Board of Trustees (2006-present) Vice President (2012 present) Chair, Membership Committee (2012 present) Local Arrangements Coordinator for Annual Conference in Jonesboro (2009-2010) Chair, Nominations Committee (2008-2011) Awards and Recognitions Committee (2006-08) Violet Gingles and Lucille Woodward Paper Prize Committee (2003-2005) Arkansas State University History Department Assistant Department Chair (since July 2011) Chair, Latin American History Search Committee (2013) Chair, History/Social Science Search Committee (2012-13) Chair, Latin American History Search Committee (2011-12) Chair, PRT Committee (2010-11) Chair, Executive Committee (2010) BSE Academic Advisor (2003-present) Faculty Advisor, Eta Chi chapter, Phi Alpha Theta (2004-present) Faculty Achievement Awards Committee (2009) Chair, Southern History Search Committee (2005-2006) Curriculum Committee (2005- present; Chair since 2012) Scholarship Committee (2003-present; Chair, 2009-2011) M.A. Comprehensive Exam Committees (2003-present) B.S.E. Undergraduate Committee (2003-present) U.S. History Survey Assessment Committee (2007) Program Review Committee (2005-2006) Heritages Studies Advisory Council (2010-present) Dissertation and Doctoral Advisory Committees for Glinda Hall, Derek Clements, Simon Hosken and Lenore Shoults 7
Doctoral Advisory Committees for Cissy Dowdy, Louis Intres, and Charles Baclawski College of Humanities and Social Sciences PRT Committee (2010-11) Scholarship Committee (2006-11) University ASU Museum Advisory Council (2010-13) Faculty Advisor, Gay/Straight Alliance (formerly Common Ground), 2007-11 Academic Advising Council on Excellence (2003-07) University Lecture/Concert Series Committee (2004-06) Interviewer, University Honors Scholarship Competition (2005) Conducted interview of Judge Morris S. Arnold of the US Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals for the Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History. Judge, We the People mock competition for Greene County Tech government class, 2009 and 2010 Consultant, From This Point On: Arkansas and the Louisiana Purchase, video, Old State House Museum, Little Rock Article referee, Arkansas Historical Quarterly (2006) Presentation Prize Committee (2003-2005; Chair, 2005), Arkansas Association of College History Teachers Entry Reviewer, The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture (2005-2008) Reader, Longman Publishers Reader, University of Oklahoma Press Dean of Libraries Search Committee (1999-2000), University of Arkansas Vice President (2000-2001), Alpha Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta, University of Arkansas Treasurer (1999-2000), Alpha Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta, University of Arkansas Professional Memberships Current: American Association of University Professors Arkansas Historical Association Phi Alpha Theta Previous: American Society for Ethnohistory Arkansas Council for the Social Studies French Colonial History Society Southern Historical Association Western History Association 8