Ian Chambers History Department, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, 83844-3175 Tel: (208) 885-6551 E-mail: chambers@uidaho.edu EMPLOYMENT 2007 - Present 2006 2007 2004 Assistant Professor, University of Idaho Classes taught: History 111Introduction to U.S. History History 411/511 Colonial North America, 1492-1763 History 412/512 American Revolution and Early Republic, 1763-1828 History 420/520 History of Women in American Society History 421/521 Pirates of the Caribbean and Beyond History 426/526 Red Earth White Lies: American Indian History 1840-Present History 431/531 Stolen Continents: The Indian Story: Indian History to 1840 History 401 Senior Seminar: The Atlantic World Lecturer in History Pasadena City College, 1570 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91106 Adjunct lecturer US History MT. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA 91789 EDUCATION 2006 1999 University of California, Riverside Ph.D Native American History. Dissertation Title Space the Final Frontier? Spatial Personas in the Eighteenth Century American Southeast. Supervisory Committee: Prof. Rebecca Kugel, Prof. James Carson, Prof. Michelle Raheja University of Warwick, England MA by Historical Research. Dissertation Title All the Old Things Are Gone Now and the Indians are Different : The Consequences for Native American Gender Structure of British Settlement on the Southern Colonial Frontier IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 1 1/22/2010
1997 University of Warwick, England BA (Hons). Comparative American Studies (inclusive of one year at the University of California, Riverside) PUBLICATIONS Book manuscript Spatial Understandings in the eighteenth Century (SUNY Press under contract) Southeast Book Chapters Articles (Peer Reviewed) (Peer Reviewed) (Peer Reviewed) British Imaginings of the Eighteenth Century. in America in the British Imagination (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007) The Movement of Great Tellico: The Role of Town and Clan in Cherokee Spatial Understanding, Native South (forthcoming) My First Capstone Course Perspectives on History: Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association, Vol. 47, No. 6, (September ) Spatial Personas: A New Technique for Interpreting Colonial Encounters in Colonial North America, History Compass, July 2008 Agent s Provocateurs and Indians Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Paper (Peer Reviewed) The History of Native American Studies at the University of California Riverside, Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (Fall, 2001). Now we act more like Women than Head Men : Gender and the Native American in the Colonial South Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Paper 98007 Book Reviews Laura F. Klien and Lillian A. Ackerman (eds.), Women and Power in Native North America, Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, Vol. 4. No. 2 (Fall, 2004) Peter Mancall and James H. Merrell (eds.), American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal 1500 1850, Journal of American Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2 (August 2002). IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 2 1/22/2010
Michael P. Morris, The Bringing of Wonder: Trade and Indians of the Southeast, 1700 1783, Journal of American Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2. (August 2002). Theda Perdue (ed.), Sifters: Native American Women s Lives, Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, Vol. 2 No. 2 (Fall, 2001). J. Leitch Wright Jr., The Only Land They Knew: American Indians in the Old south, Journal of American Studies Vol. 35 No. 2 (August 2001). Martin Daunton and Rick Halpern (eds.), Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous People, 1600-1850, Indigenous Nations Studies Journal, Vol. 2 No. 1 (Spring, 2001). Karl Krober Traditional Literatures of the American Indian, Borderlines: Studies in American Culture 1998/1999 Conference Presentations "Daniel Defoe, Colonialism and Space", University Interdisciplinary Colloquium, October 20, University of Idaho Panel Chair, The Innovative North: New Approaches in Northern Plains, Alaskan, Canadian, and Métis Ethnohistory, American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, September 30 October 4, New Orleans Louisiana The Role of Clans and Towns in Cherokee Spatial Persona Symposium: Beyond Two Worlds: Thinking with Place, Space, and Landscape in Native North American History A Tribal Worlds Session, American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, September 30 October 4, New Orleans Louisiana Workshop Member Approaches to Teaching Lakota Culture: Historical Approach, Centre for American Indian Studies and Native Research, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, June 29-July 3 The Empire Visits the Metropolis: Cherokee's in 1730s London, Transatlantic Studies Association Conference Canterbury Christ Church University, 13-16 July. IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 3 1/22/2010
Indians in the Metropolis: Cherokees in 1730s London British Scholar Annual Conference February 19-21, Austin, Texas The Empire Visits the Metropolis: Cherokees in 1730s London History, Culture and Society: History department Brown Bag December 4 UI 2008 Deer and Rabbit: Cherokee Stories and Understandings of Movement, American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference November 12-16, Eugene, Oregon Your Karma ran Over my Dagma: The Relationship Between evolution and Native American History, Weekly IBEST Lunch October 30, 2008 The Cherokee Deerskin Map of c1720? American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference November 7-10, 2007 Tulsa, Oklahoma 2007 Understandings of Space in Early Eighteenth Century London British Scholar Conference November 2-3, 2007 Austin, Texas Alexander Cumming - Spatial Understandings in the Eighteenth Century Southeast Thirteenth Annual Institute Conference, June 7-10, 2007, Williamsburg, Virginia Agent Provecateurs and Indians Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825 (Summer 2007) Panel Chair, Consortium on the Revolutionary Age Annual Conference Feb 28 30, Huntsville, Alabama 2007 2006 Alexander Cumming - King or Pawn? An Englishman on the Colonial Chessboard of the Eighteenth-century American Southeast American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference November 1-5, 2006 Williamsburg, Virginia A Middleman in the American Southeast? All-UC Economic History and All-UC World History Groups Conference, Middlemen and Networks: Economic, Social, and Cultural Foundations of the Global Economy November 3-5, 2006, UC San Diego IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 4 1/22/2010
2005 The Role of Spatial Codes in the 18 th Century Atlantic World 10 th Anniversary Conference-Atlantic History: The State of the Art Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825 (August 2005) English Spatial Understandings in the Works of Daniel Defoe UC Multi-Campus Research Unit in World History Conference, UC San Diego The Role of Space in Colonial Contacts Institute for Southern Studies, Columbia, South Carolina Panel Member, Native Places and the Place of Natives in the American Settler Imagination Society of Early Americanists Fourth Biennial Meeting Old Town Alexandria, Virginia, March 31-April 2, 2005 Shifting Perceptions of Space in the Eighteenth Century Crossing the Atlantic: European Dimensions of American History, 1600-2000: University of Texas at Arlington from March 31 to April 3, 2004 Spatial Identity in Eighteenth-Century England Huntington Library, San Marino California (May, 2004) Spatial Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World Creating Identity and Empire in the Atlantic World, 1492-1888 An Interdisciplinary Conference (September, 2004) 2003 Space: The Final Frontier? John D. Rockefeller Library, Colonial Williamsburg (December 2003) Space: The Final Frontier? Spatial Identity in the Colonial Southeast. American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Riverside (November, 2003) Panel Member Teaching Indigineity and Empire, Proposals and Problems UC Multi-Campus Research Unit in World History Conference, UC Santa Cruz 2002 Spiral History and Bi-focal Time American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Quebec IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 5 1/22/2010
Now we act more Like Women than Head Men : Gender and the Native American in the Colonial Southeast UC Multi-Campus Research Unit in World History Conference, Riverside 2001 2000 1999 1998 You are a white man, and knows trading, not that alone but can write and make the paper speak American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Tuscon Traders and other Intermediaries in the Economic Incorporation of Native Americans in the Colonial Southeast British Association of American Studies Annual Conference, Glasgow Gender and the Native American Early Americanists in Britain and Ireland Conference Brunel University London Now we act more Like Women than Head Men : The Role of Trade on Native American Gender Roles Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, Harvard. Native American Gender Roles British Association of American Studies Postgraduate Conference, Leicester. AWARDS RECEIVED Inspirational Faculty Member Award for Excellence, UI Alumni Association December 11, Voted one of top two best professors at UI in Best of Moscow The Argonaut May 8, 2008-Present 2008 Fellow, Royal Geographical Society, London, England Idaho Humanities Planning Grant Dual Credit 2007 NEH Summer Fellowship The American Indian and Ethnohistory Norman, Oklahoma IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 6 1/22/2010
Harvard University, International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World, 1500-1825 Travel Fellowship 2006 2005 American Society for Ethnohistory Student Travel Award University of California Graduate Division: Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Southern Studies, Columbia, South Carolina Participant, Cherokee History and Culture Institute Museum of the Cherokee Indian, Cherokee North Carolina University of California Graduate Division: Doctoral Research Award 2004 University of California Graduate Division: Doctoral Research Award University of California: Graduate Student Association Mini-grant 2003 John R. Rockefeller Library Fellowship Colonial Williamsburg Virginia UC Multi-Campus Research Unit in World History Travel Grant University of California: Graduate Student Association Mini-grant 2002 Center for Ideas and Society, UCR Resident Fellowship for Resident Fellow Group, Native American Studies in the 21 st Century: Activism, History, Spirituality, Literature University of California: Graduate Student Association Mini-grant 2001 UC Multi-Campus Research Unit in World History Travel Grant University of California: Graduate Student Association Mini-grant 2000 1999 1998 University of California: Dean s Fellowship Warwick University: Graduate Fees Award, Graduate Travel Fellowship Harvard University: Foreign Student Travel Fellowship IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 7 1/22/2010
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2003-2006 2003 2002 2001-2003 2001 2002 2000-2001 2000-2001 1997-2000 1997 Advisor for review of Of the People: A History of the United States Oxford university Press Graduate Student Researcher Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Workshops University of California, Riverside Organizer: American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Riverside, California Co-Organizer: UC Multi-Campus Research Unit in World History Conference, University of California Riverside University of California, Riverside Teaching Assistant For: History 20 20 th Century World History History 15 World History 1500 1900 History 17b Introduction to United States History 1877 to the Present History 104 The Scientific Revolution University of California, Riverside Graduate Student Representative History Department Organizer: Graduate Seminar Series University of California, Riverside Reader for: History A 147 The American West History 036 North American Indians 1840 to the Present University of California, Riverside Departmental web-site assistant. University of Warwick Training Assistant for Information Technology Services and History Department IT Assistant Guest Lecturer, University of Nottingham, England Native American Gender Construction IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 8 1/22/2010
1995 1996 University of California, Riverside Research Assistant to Prof. Clifford Trafzer. Research for book manuscript, published under the title: Exterminate Them : Written Accounts of the Murder, Rape, and Slavery of Native Americans During the California Gold Rush, 1848-1868 SERVICE -10 Undergraduate Advising Mentor for Key Fund Awardee Mentor for Gilder Lehman Scholar College Flag Carrier, Presidential Inauguration UI October 16, Faculty presenter Second Year Faculty Program, New faculty orientation August 17, Marshall, Commencement Ceremony UI, May 16, Reviewer for History program North Idaho College, April 16, 2008 - Present Graduate Advising: Current Major Professor MA 5 Reader PhD 2 History MA 1 History MA 2 Anthropology MA 1 English Graduate Advising: Completed Major Professor? Reader MA 2 Anthropology Present 2008 - Present Library Affairs Committee Co-coordinator History, culture, and Society History Department Brown Bag" IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 9 1/22/2010
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT "Building Interdisciplinary Relationships and Collaborations" on Tuesday, Nov. 17, Helping Graduate Students Begin and Complete Their Thesis and Dissertation College of Graduate Studies, Nov.11, Best Practices in Teaching Graduate Seminars College of Graduate Studies, Oct, 26, E-Grant Training, Oct. 21, Using Writing in Your Courses - Office of Academic Affairs, Oct. 21, 6 th Advising Symposium, ACADA, Moscow ID (September 11) Bibliometrics/Impact Factors, Savvy Skills for Researchers: Fall Library Workshop Series, October 15th 2008 "Degree Works Training", UI. (September 22, 2008) 5 th Advising Symposium, ACADA, Moscow ID, (September 5) "Women's Leadership Conference", Women s Center-Athena, UI, Moscow ID. (October 16, 2008 - October 18, 2008) "Best Practices for Mentoring Grad Students" panel", College of Graduate Studies, Moscow ID. (October 27, 2008) "College of Graduate Studies New Faculty program", College of Graduate Studies UI, Moscow ID. (November 10, 2008) "American Indian Student Development Conference", Native American Student Center UI, Moscow ID. (November 19, 2008 - November 20, 2008) OUTREACH Faculty Member UI Odyssey Camp Program, May IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 10 1/22/2010
Coordinator and leader UI High School History Teacher Dual Credit Training Workshop August 4 6, Pirates and Business, Guest Presentation UI Executive MBA Program, Sandpoint Idaho March 17, Pirates of the Caribbean: Why Pirates Matter to History Eastern Washington Genealogical Society Luncheon, Spokane Jan 3, 2008- Present Faculty of Record UI History Dual Credit Program Includes visits and lectures at High School hosting students on UI campus tours assessment of work Current Schools: McCall-Donnelly High Moscow High Lakeside High Clark Fork High OTHER Press Interviews Pirates are the new black, Kelcie Mosely, The Argonaut (UI) Apr. 28, On the Heels of History: women s journey for the vote and a voice in the political process Christina Lords The Argonaut (UI) Nov. 4, 2008 Interviewed by Hallay Griffin, Moscow-Pullman Daily News on economic downturn Economic downturn brings back memories of 1930s Moscow- Pullman Daily News (Moscow) Sept. 27 &27, 2008 Interviewed by Shawn Vestel, Spokesman-Review for introduction of new course Pirates of the Caribbean and Beyond Picked up by AP sample publications: Yo ho ho! It ll be on the test Spokesman Review (Spokane) Dec. 21, 2007 Inattentive students will be keelhauled Lewiston Tribune (Lewiston) Dec. 25, 2007 Arrr! Real pirates not as Depp-icted, professor says Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Jan.1, 2008 UI professor poised for semester of high seas adventure Post Register (Idaho Falls) Dec. 28, 2007 See also: A Pirate s Life for me The Argonaut (UI) Nov. 16, 2007 Ahoy. Idaho! It s time for pirates Register (UI) Nov 16, 2007 IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 11 1/22/2010
Student Awards 2008 Favorite Professor Dinner, Alpha Gamma Delta. (October 21, ) Favorite Professor Dinner, Kappa Alpha Theta. (November 4, 2008) Lecture Phi Alpha Theta Annual Initiation reception, Phi Alpha Theta, Moscow, ID. (April 3, 2008) Favorite Professor Dinner, Alpha Phi. (March 24, 2008). Favorite Professor Dinner, Delta Delta Delta (Feb 27, 2008). References: Prof. Rebecca Kugel History Department, University of California Riverside, USA Prof. James Taylor Carson Queen s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada Prof. Michelle Rahja History Department, University of California Riverside, USA Prof. Joshua Piker History Department, University of Oklahoma, USA IAN CHAMBERS PAGE 12 1/22/2010