John P. Bowes Eastern Kentucky University 308 Keith Building 521 Lancaster Avenue Richmond, KY 40475 859-622-1360 John.Bowes@eku.edu PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Professor, Eastern Kentucky University, 2011 to present Assistant Professor, Eastern Kentucky University, 2006-2011 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American Studies, Dartmouth College, 2004-2006 Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004 EDUCATION Ph.D., UCLA Department of History, U.S. Field, December 2003. M.A., UCLA Department of History, 1999 B.A. History, Yale University, 1995, cum laude with Distinction in History ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS American Philosophical Society, Phillips Fund for Native American Research Grant, 2011 Eastern Kentucky University Research Committee Grant, 2011-2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2010 Eastern Kentucky University College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Research and Creative Activities Award, 2010-2011 Eastern Kentucky University Research Committee Grant, 2008-2009 Eastern Kentucky University Junior Faculty Research Grant, 2007 Norris C. Hundley Dissertation Prize, 2004 UCLA Teaching Fellowship, 2001-2002 Institute of American Cultures Research Grant, 2000-2001 Gary B. Nash Fellowship, 2000-2001 UCLA Summer Research Assistant/Mentorship Program, 1999 UCLA History Department Four-Year Fellowship, 1997-2001 PUBLICATIONS Books Northern Indian Removal: An Unfamiliar History, manuscript under contract with University of Oklahoma Press. The History and Culture of Native Americans: The Choctaw (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2010).
Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007). The Trail of Tears: Removal in the South, (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2007). Black Hawk and the War of 1832: Removal in the North, (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 2007). Book Chapters U.S. Expansion and Its Consequences, 1815-1890, in progress for Oxford Handbook of American Indian History (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2013). The Late War: Black Hawk and the Legacies of Violence in the Great Lakes Region, forthcoming in David Curtis Skaggs, ed., The Battle of Lake Erie: A Bicentennial Reassessment, under contract with Kent State University Press. Articles The Gnadenhutten Effect: Moravian Converts and the Search for Safety in the Canadian Borderlands, Michigan Historical Review 34(Spring 2008): 101-117. American Indian Removal Beyond the Removal Act, manuscript under revision for the Journal of the Early Republic. "Confederacies, Divisions, and the Aftermath: American Indians and the War of 1812 in the Lower Great Lakes," article in preparation for the Journal of Military History. Essays Native American History and Culture Since 1950 and Indian History and Culture from 1800 to 1900, forthcoming in Encyclopedia of American Social History (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2012). Histories of Order and Empire, Reviews in American History 37 (2009), 378-385. Reconsidering Resistance and From Colonial America to Today, in Native American Resistance Resource Book (New York: ABC-CLIO, 2008). Book Reviews Laurence M. Hauptman, The Tonowanda Senecas Heroic Battle Against Removal: Conservative Activist Indians, in Ethnohistory 59 (Summer 2012),. Brad D.E. Jarvis, The Brothertown Nation of Indians: Land Ownership and Nationalism in Early America, 1740-1840, in Ethnohistory 58(Summer 2011), 545-546. 2
William Y. Chalfant, Hancock s War: Conflict on the Southern Plains, in Military History of the West 40(2010), 136-137. Leonard J. Sadosky, Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires, and Diplomats in the Founding of America, in The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 108(Winter/Spring 2010), 123-125. John W. Hall, Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War, in The Annals of Iowa 69 (Fall 2010), 451-452. Edmund Jefferson Danziger, Jr., Great Lakes Indian Accommodation and Resistance During the Early Reservation Years, 1850-1900, in Ethnohistory 57(Summer 2010), 488-489. R. David Edmunds, Enduring Nations: Native Americans in the Midwest, in The Western Historical Quarterly 40(Winter 2009), 506-507. Timothy D. Willig, Restoring the Chain of Friendship: British Policy and the Indians of the Great Lakes, 1783-1815, The Journal of American History 96(June 2009), 195-196. Robert M. Owens, Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy. H-SHEAR, H-Net Reviews. February 2009. Frederick Hoxie and Jay T. Nelson, eds., Lewis and Clark and Indian Country: The Native American Perspective, in The Annals of Iowa 67(Fall 2008), 334-335. Jared Farmer, On Zion s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape, in The American Historical Review 113(December 2008), 1545. Patrick J. Jung, The Black Hawk War of 1832, in American Indian Culture and Research Journal 32(Spring 2008), 153-155. Bruce E. Johansen, The Native Peoples of North America: A History, in American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 31(Fall 2007), 171-173. Michael L. Tate, Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trails, in The Annals of Iowa, 65(Spring/Summer 2007), 262-263. Andrew Denson, Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900, in Ethnohistory, 54(Summer 2007), 566-567. Daniel P. Barr, ed., The Boundaries between Us: Natives and Newcomers Along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850, in Pennsylvania History, 74(Summer 2007), 407-410. David R.M.Beck, The Struggle for Self-Determination: History of the Menominee Indians Since 1854, H-AmIndian, H-Net Reviews, April 2006. 3
Tom Holm, The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era, in Journal of the West 45(Winter 2006), 93-94. Tiya Miles, Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom, in Journal of the West 44(Fall 2005), 96. George Harwood Phillips, Bringing Them Under Subjection : California s Tejon Indian Reservation and Beyond, 1852-1864, in Southern California Quarterly 86(Winter 2004-2005). Mick Gidley, Edward Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field, in The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History 61(July 2004), 151-152. David R. M. Beck, Siege and Survival: History of the Menominee Indians, 1634-1856, in Meeting Ground 46(Spring/Summer 2004), 5. Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt, The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform, in The Annals of Iowa 62(Fall 2003), 484-485. R. Douglas Hurt, The Indian Frontier 1763-1846, in The Annals of Iowa 62(Summer 2003), 369-371. Entries Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., and James W. Parins, editors, Encyclopedia of American Indian Removal (2 vols., Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press, 2011). Joan Waugh, editor, Volume 5, "The Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877," in Encyclopedia of United States History, general editor, Gary B. Nash (New York: Facts on File, Fall, 2002). C. Richard King, editor, Native Americans in Sports, (New York: SharpeReference, 2004). Donald L. Fixico, editor, Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty (3 vols., New York: ABC-CLIO, 2007). Contributor Contributor, American Indian Wars, 1492-1890, on ABC-CLIO subscriber website, United States at War: Understanding Conflict and Society. Researcher and Contributor, Natural Resource Defense Council, "Drawdown: Groundwater Mining on Black Mesa," White Paper (October 2000). 4
PRESENTATIONS Invited The War of 1812 and its Impact on Native Americans in Ohio, Keynote Address at Conference on the War of 1812 and the Forced Removal of Indians from Ohio, Defiance, Ohio, May 10, 2012. The Trail of Tears and American Indian Removal, Presentation for a Teaching American History Grant, University of Delaware, May 3, 2012. Living with American Indians and American Indian History, Eastern Kentucky University Chautauqua Lecture Series, November 17, 2011. A Divided Resistance: Wyandots, Tenskwatawa, and the Battle of Tippecanoe, Wiping Away the Tears: The Battle of Tippecanoe in History and Memory, Symposium at Purdue University, November 3-5, 2011. American Diplomacy and American Indian Treaties, Kentucky History Education Conference at the Kentucky Historical Society, July 15, 2010. New Directions: Writing Western History in the Twenty-First Century, Roundtable symposium at Utah State University, October 23, 2008. Western Speculations: American Indian Land Ownership in Kansas, F. Kevin Simon History Symposium, Sayre School, Lexington, KY, February 22-23, 2008. Teaching Native American History, 32 nd Annual Kentucky Association of Teachers of History Conference, University of Kentucky, October 6, 2007. Tribes of Western Missouri/Eastern Kansas, and Incorporating the American Indian Story into the American History Narrative, at the 2007 National Frontier Trails Museum/Shawnee Indian Mission State Historic Site Summer Teacher and Learning Seminar, July 26-27, 2007. The Steps to Removal, Keynote Address, The Conference on Indian Removal from Ohio, Defiance College, Defiance, OH, May 17-19, 2006. "From Removal to Reservations: Contexts for George Catlin and the Idea of the Vanishing Indian," Autry National Center, Los Angeles, CA, May 2004. Conferences Displacing the Indian Removal Act: A Historical Reconsideration, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Conference, May 2011. 5
Indian Removal in the Old Northwest, Society of Historians of the Early American Republic Annual Conference, July 2010. The Lessons of Early Frontiers: Eastern Indians in the 19 th Century American West, From Borderland to Backcountry Conference, University of Dundee, July 2009. Border Landlords: Explaining American Indian Land Speculation in Kansas, Western History Association Conference, October 2008. Rocks and Hard Places: Choice and Indian Removal in the Great Lakes, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture/Society of Early Americanists Joint Conference, June 2007. Fires From East to West: Creating Potawatomi Communities in the Nineteenth Century, Panel Co-Organizer and Presenter, Organization of American Historians Conference, April 2006. A Different Kind of Indian Territory: The Attempt to Preempt the Kansas-NebraskaAct, American Society for Ethnohistory, October 2004. "Kinship and Commerce: Frameworks for American Indian Relocation in the 19 th Century," UCLA U.S. History Colloquium, May 2004. "Migration Networks: Contexts for Indian Relocation from the Southern Great Lakes Region," American Society for Ethnohistory, November 2003. "Whose Line is it Anyway?: Boundaries and American Indian Land Ownership in the Trans- Mississippi West." Western Historical Association, October 2003. "Early Arrivals, Round Trips, and Missed Boats: Rethinking Indian Relocation and Removal in the Old Northwest." American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch, August 2002. TEACHING Classroom History 202, America to 1877, Eastern Kentucky University History 302, American Indian and European Encounters, Eastern Kentucky University History 308, Native American History to 1830, Eastern Kentucky University History 309, Native American History 1830 to the Present, Eastern Kentucky University History 403, Jacksonian America, 1824-1848, Eastern Kentucky University History 405, American Westward Expansion, Eastern Kentucky University History 450, Senior Seminar in History, Eastern Kentucky University History 860, Indian Removal, Eastern Kentucky University History 865, Native American History to 1830, Eastern Kentucky University History 865, Twentieth Century Native American History, Eastern Kentucky University History 15/Native American Studies 15, American Indian History: 1830 to the Present, Dartmouth College 6
History 6.3/Native American Studies 30.3, Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the West, Dartmouth College History 162, History of the American West, Winter 2004 Teaching Assistant Coordinator, Teaching Colloquium for new Teaching Assistants, 2001-2003 Student Supervision Aaron Clark, Master s Thesis Committee Member, Spring 2009 Wesley Hartman, Master s Thesis Committee Member, Spring 2009 Glenn Cox, Master s Thesis Advisor, Summer 2008 Spring 2009 SERVICE Institutional Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University, 2011- present Chair, Assessment Committee, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University 2011-2012 Chair, Curriculum Committee, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University, 2009-2011 Newsletter Editor, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University, 2006-2011 Alternate, Faculty Senate, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University, 2008-2010 Merit Pay and Travel Committee, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University, 2008-2009 Assessment Committee, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University, 2006-2008 Outreach Committee, Department of History, Eastern Kentucky University, 2006-2007 Coach, Women s Club Soccer Team, Eastern Kentucky University, 2007-2009 District Coordinator, Kentucky s National History Day Competition, 2008-2012 To the Profession Book Review Editor, Ethnohistory, 2012- present Reader, AP U.S. History Exam, June 2011 Member, F. Kevin Simon History Symposium Planning Committee, Sayre School, Lexington, KY, 2010-present District Coordinator, Kentucky s National History Day Competition, 2008-present Commissioner, Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission, 2008-2011 Researcher and Consultant, National Museum of the American Indian, 2007 Alternate Expert Witness, Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan, 2007-present Expert Witness, Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians, 2008-present Board Member, Kentucky Association of Teachers of History, 2007-2011 Presenter, Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative, 2007-2011 Judge, Kentucky Historical Society Kentucky History Awards, 2009 Referee, Indiana Magazine of History Referee, Journal of the Early Republic Referee, Western Historical Quarterly 7
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Organization of American Historians American Society for Ethnohistory Western History Association American History Association 8
REFERENCES Stephen Aron Professor of History University of California-Los Angeles Executive Director Institute for the Study of the American West, Autry National Center saron@history.ucla.edu 310-825-2561 Colin Calloway Professor of History and Native American Studies Dartmouth College Colin.G.Calloway@Dartmouth.edu 603-646-3530 Frederick E. Hoxie Swanlund Professor Department of History University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign hoxie@uiuc.edu 217-333-8660 9