MAX G. GEIER

History Department

Western Oregon University

Monmouth, OR 97361

(503) 838-8369 email: geierm@wou.edu

Current Position: Professor of History, Western Oregon University, Monmouth OR

Education:

Ph.D.(History), Washington State University, August 1990

Dissertation: "A Comparative History of Rural Community on the Northwest Plains: Lincoln County, Washington and the Wheatland Region, Alberta, 1880-1930"

Fields of Study: Areas of Emphasis

•American History (co-equal primary field) •Western U.S. and Rural-Urban Relations

•Public History (co-equal primary field) •Applied Research & Natural Resource Development Issues

•Canadian History •Prairie Provinces and Western Canada

M.A.(History), California State University, Northridge, May 1985

Fields of Study: Areas of Emphasis

•American History •Recent U.S. (Since 1865)

•East Asian History •Modern China & Japan

•Canadian/Australian History •Rural Studies and Western Regions

B.A.(History), California State University, Northridge, May 1982

Grants and Contract Funding:

U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grant, Lincoln County School District. Collaborated with colleagues in Lincoln County Schools in 2005-6 in preparation and submission of a multi-year, $1 million grant proposal. The purpose of the grant (approved for $500,000 for 2006-2009) is to prepare a cohort of high school teachers in Lincoln County in the advanced theory, historiography, and critical analysis skills they need to effectively explore and teach early American History to students at their schools.

U.S. Department of Education Teaching American History Grant, Linn Benton Lincoln Educational Service District, October 2002-September 2005. Reviewed and participated in the initial (successful) grant proposal as the project’s lead, cooperating partner in higher education and consultant to the grant writer and director, Elaine Rector, of the LBLESD. The resulting $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to the LBLESD supports programs designed to improve elementary and secondary school student achievement in U.S. history by providing advanced training that prepares knowledgeable and skilled teacher/leaders more able to support their schools’ efforts in sustaining high-quality instruction. The project brings together teacher-leaders in grades 3-12 from throughout the LBLESD region to promote professional development and networking with the goal of improving instruction on important topics and concepts essential to understanding the impact and legacy of national and local events/issues. The US Department of Education received 469 applications. Of these applications, 114 grants were awarded ranging from $19,561.00 to $1,000,000.00 for three-year projects.

Interfaculty Development Grant, Western Oregon University, 2005. Drafted and directed grant to support a Summer 2005 interdisciplinary symposium on learning communities, including honoraria grants for participating faculty. Chaired and facilitated summer planning sessions and workshops, and chaired/facilitated weekly meetings of the faculty teaching in the pilot project throughout the academic year (2005-2006).

Oregon Council for the Humanities, 2003: Authored the initial letter of intent to apply for the grant, including a statement of project scope, goals, philosophy, and intent; served as a consultant to the initial director of the project (Sharon Lehner) in drafting, reviewing, and revising a final grant proposal to fund the project; participated in a working group of collaborators with the WOU Development Office, the Straub Archives, the WOU History Department, and the College of Education at WOU; recruited a director for the grant (Keni Sturgeon); and collaborated with the interdisciplinary advisory group to support the director in implementing the WOU Rural Teachers Oral History Project.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Station, 1996-98: Proposed, wrote, secured, and directed a Major Grant ($57,000) funding an oral history project and research for forthcoming book, “Necessary Work: Discovering Old Forests, New Outlooks, and Community on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, 1948-2000", including recruitment and management of support staff and a 12-month appointment as visiting assistant professor in the Forest Science Department at Oregon State University (1997-8).

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1992-1995: Grants and contracts supporting research, writing, and publication of a major book project examining the history of Forest Research in Alaska.

Western Oregon State College Faculty Development Committee Research Grant, 1996, Photo Research, Juneau, AK.

Western Oregon State College Faculty Development Committee Travel Grant, 1996. Archives and Oral History Research, Anchorage, AK.

Western Oregon State College Travel Grant, 1995. Archives Research in Juneau, AK.

Western Oregon State College Travel Grant, 1994. SAF. Conference, Anchorage, AK.

Western Oregon State College Travel Grant, 1992. WHA. Conference, New Haven, CN.

Washington State University Graduate Studies Committee Summer Fellowship, 1989. Research in rural eastern Washington.

Canadian Embassy CFY Canadian Studies Program Graduate Student Fellowship, 1987-1988: Research in-residence in Alberta, Canada with the assistance and cooperation of the University of Calgary, the University of Alberta, the Glenbow Archives, Statistics Alberta, and the Provincial Archives of Alberta.

Washington State University Graduate Studies Committee Graduate Student Travel Grant, 1988: Research, Calgary, Alberta.

Academic appointments and teaching experience:

Western Oregon University, 2005-present: Professor of History

Western Oregon University, 1998-2004: Associate Professor of History

Western Oregon University, 1991 to 1997: Assistant Professor of History

Courses Offered at WOU since 1991:

•American History (HST 201, 202, and 203): survey level sequence

•Canadian History (HST 468 and 469): an upper division survey of Canadian History from pre-contact through the modern era

•Civil War and Reconstruction (HST 458): an upper division course exploring the political, economic, and cultural transformation of the United States and its people in the mid-19^th century.

•Colonial America (HST 483): an upper division course exploring comparative themes of colonial development in its North American context from pre-history to the 1780s

•Environmental History (HST 470): an upper division seminar focusing on human interaction with and perceptions of the environment from pre-history to present.

•Farmer-Labor Issues in the Pacific Northwest (HST 407/507): an upper division and graduate-level seminar exploring labor systems and community, pre-history to present.

•U.S. West to 1900 and U.S. West in 20^th Century (HST 476 and HST 477): a two-quarter sequence at the upper division level exploring the place of the West in North American History.

•Industrial America (HST 459): an upper division course focusing on social, political, economic, and constitutional themes in U.S. history from 1870 through 1914

•Jacksonian America (HST 457): an upper division course focusing on social, political, economic, and constitutional themes in U.S. history from 1815 through 1850

•North American Constitutional History (HST 486): an upper division course exploring comparative themes of constitutional history and development in the United States and Canada through 1867.

•Nuclear Landscapes (HST 407H/407C): an upper division seminar exploring nuclear theory and the physical and cultural legacies of nuclear technology from the late 19^th century through the present.

•Oral History (HST 417/HST 407/Anth 399): an upper division seminar focusing on methods and practical experience in conducting oral history interviews with a community history emphasis

•Pacific Northwest (HST 478): an upper division course focusing on regional and comparative themes in the Pacific Northwest from pre-contact through the present.

•Public History (HST 419): an upper division introduction to the uses of the historian's craft in the public and private, non-academic sectors

•Philosophies of History (HST 420): an upper division seminar, that is a core requirement of the major, that examines the theoretical foundations of the discipline in a reading and discussion format.

•Western Civilizations Survey (HST 103): an introductory survey of Western Civilization in relation to world events since 1815

•World Problems (HST 492): an upper division course focusing on selected topics and historical issues relevant to contemporary world problems

Oregon State University, 1997-98: Assistant Professor, Senior Research, Forest Science Department, Oregon State University

Elderhostel Program, 1994: Assistant Professor

•The Oregon Mystique: An interdisciplinary introduction to the Pacific Northwest with an emphasis on the natural and human characteristics of the Willamette Valley.

Linn-Benton Community College, Spring 1992: History Instructor

•Western Civilizations Survey (HST 103): an introductory survey of Western Civilization in relation to world events since 1815

Oregon State University, 1991: Assistant Professor (Visiting)

•Western Civilizations Survey (HST 103): an introductory survey of Western Civilization in relation to world events since 1815

Washington State University, 1985-1989: Teaching Assistant II

•American History Survey (Hist 110 and 111): Instructor with full responsibilities for the introductory survey courses (semester system)

•Early Modern Europe (Hist 102): Teaching Assistant for the introductory survey course in European History (seventeenth century to the present)

•Medieval England (Hist 342): Teaching Assistant for upper-division survey (to 1500)

Conferences and Professional Presentations:

•Basics of Archives Workshop, Oregon Heritage Conference, 3 May 2007, Pendleton, Oregon. Presentation and workshop for local archivists as representative of the Oregon State Historical Records Advisory Board.

•Lincoln County School District U.S. History Project December Workshop, December 2006: “Landscapes of 20^th Century Reform in Oregon” Presented interpretive analysis of Oregon landscapes and reform ideals to a workshop session for high school history teachers in Lincoln County School District. Lincoln City, OR.

•Panel chair, panel organizer, and presenter for a round-table presentation at the Western Social Science Association annual meeting in Spring 2006 in Phoenix, Arizona. Presented and chaired the panel discussion, which explored the Learning Communities initiative and the Social Science Introductory Seminar project as implemented at WOU in 2005-6.

•“Lewis and Clark in Global Context” public presentation sponsored by Salemtowne Women’s Association, Winter 2006

Oral History Association Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon in October 2004: Chair, presenter, and panel organizer, “WOU Rural Teachers Oral History Project.” Participant and organizer for a round table panel discussion regarding the development and implementation of the WOU Rural Teachers Oral History Project.

Oral History Association Annual Conference, scheduled for Portland, Oregon in October 2004: Program Committee Member, Fall 2003-Fall 2004. Review panel proposals, plan events, and recruit presenters for the 2004 annual meeting as a member of the OHA program committee.

“Endless War: The Nationalist Myth of Redemptive Violence” presentation at Iraq: Bearing Witness to War, a multi-disciplinary forum sponsored by the Social Science Division at Western Oregon University, May 2004.

“Historic Preservation in theory and practice: Corvallis as a case study”, invited presentation at the Spring 2004 meeting of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Corvallis Chapter.

Linn Benton Lincoln Educational Service District U.S. History Project June Workshops, 2003, and 2004: Multiple Presentations (8 hours of presentations across two days each year) exploring theory, scholarly sources, research methods, and analytical tools appropriate to studies of colonial and early American history (2003), and to an exploration of the power of place, race, environment, and identity issues in the Pacific Northwest (2004). Designed as a summer history institute offered for academic credit and jointly sponsored by the Linn-Benton-Lincoln Educational Service District, the WOU History Department, and the WOU College of Education.

PEO Sisterhood Speakers Series, Corvallis, Oregon, 8 September 2003: “Preserving Public Buildings”. Invited speaker presenting perspectives on historic preservation issues relating to landmark public buildings in the City of Corvallis that came before the Historic Preservation Advisory Board during 2002 and 2003. PEO Sisterhood is a voluntary association, national in scope, supporting and promoting women seeking advanced education opportunities and degrees.

Pacific Northwest Contours: Complicating and Questioning Notions about Region and Regional History, a research symposium at the University of Washington, 23 November 2002: Roundtable presenter and panelist, “Teaching the Pacific Northwest Survey: A Conversation between Geographers and Historians.”

Annual Conference of Northwest Archivists and Oral History Association, Corvallis, Oregon, 25-27 April 2001: Participant, Native American Archives roundtable discussion.

Western History Association, San Antonio, TX, October 2000: “Old Forests, New Outlooks? Collaborative Science and Management Ideals at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, 1970-2000”.

American Society of Environmental Historians, Tacoma, WA, March 2000: “Accidental Community and the Self-Construction of Idealized and Realized Landscapes on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest: 1948-2000”.

American Society of Environmental Historians, Tacoma, WA, March 2000. Chaired and helped organize a session entitled “Whose Rivers Are They? The Politics of River Management in the Pacific Northwest”

History Guild Speakers Series, University of Oregon, May 2000. Presented a colloquium on the history of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest as an invited guest of the History Guild at the University of Oregon.

History Lecture Series, Western Oregon University, April 2000. Presented a colloquium on the history of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest as a contributor in the History Lecture Series at Western Oregon University.

H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest 50^th Anniversary Commemorative Conference, Blue River, Oregon, August 1998: “Accidental Community? 50 Years of Managing Ecosystems Research at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest”.

American Society of Environmental Historians, National Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 1997: "Deer in the Sights: Scientists at the Center of Controversy and on the Periphery of Control."

Arctic Life and Legend public lecture series, Friends of the Jensen Arctic Museum, Monmouth, OR, 2 April 1995, "Enlightenment Science and the Boreal Forest: Perceiving and Developing Forest Resources in Alaska from Steller to Multiple Use."

Western Oregon State College Faculty Research Seminar , 10 February 1995, "Paul Bunyan with a Clipboard: Myth and Community in the Study of Alaskan Forests."

Forest History Society/Society of American Foresters National Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, September 1994. "The History of Forest Service Research in Alaska."

Western History Association Conference, National Conference, New Haven, CT, October 1992. "You Can't Irrigate Wheat! Leading the Farmer to Water in the Western Section of the CPR Irrigation Block, 1896-1917."

Great River of the West Conference, Regional History Conference, Yakima, WA, May 1992. "Community Development and Irrigation Policy in Two Wheatgrowing Regions of the Northwest Plains, 1890-30."

Northwest History Conference, Regional History Conference, Walla Walla, WA, April 1991. "Historical Methodology and Rural Community in the Pacific Northwest."

Phi Alpha Theta, Northwest Regional Conference, April 1988. "Who Fiddles While Sprague Burns? Community and Industry in Eastern Washington, 1893-1896." Awarded Best Graduate Paper at the conference.

Public history and editing:

Manuscript Reviewer and editorial consultant, Higher Education History group of Oxford University Press. Invited reviewer and editorial consultant in Spring 2006 for a project proposal outlining a revision plan for a second edition of the Environmental History text by Ted Steinberg, Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History (NY: Oxford University Press, 2002).

Project Consultant and Collaborating Instructor, 2006-2007. Lincoln County School District. Supported initial grant proposal as cooperating historian in higher education, for a 3-year federal grant proposal (funded at $500,000) to support and upgrade history skills for K-12 educators in the service district, and served as content presenter in December 2006.

Cooperating Researcher, Project Consultant, and Collaborating instructor, Fall 2002-2005. Linn Benton Lincoln Educational Service District. Supported initial grant proposal as cooperating historian in higher education, and served as consultant in the first two years of the 3-year grant to support and upgrade history skills for K-12 educators in the service district. Planned, designed and implemented instructional units in Colonial America, Constitutional History, and Industrialization for a summer history institute for area teachers, offered for academic (university) credit through WOU Extended Education, and jointly sponsored by the Linn-Benton-Lincoln Educational Service District, the WOU History Department, and the WOU College of Education in a team-teaching project with Dr. Kimberly Jensen, Chair of the WOU History Department.

Manuscript Reviewer and Project Consultant, Fall 2003-2005. Reviewed initial project proposal for Harcourt School Publishers for a 4^th Grade Social Studies Activity book designed to support elementary school teachers preparing their students to meet Oregon standards in the Social Sciences (notably including units in History, Geography, and Political Science)

Cooperating Researcher and Project Consultant, Fall 2002-2005. WOU Teachers Oral History Project. Served on steering committee supporting the project director (Keni Sturgeon) in planning, recruiting interviewers, training and preparing interviewers, planning interview lists, securing clearance from the university Institutional Review Board, and securing outside consultants and support.

Cooperating Researcher and Project Consultant, Fall 2002-2003. Five Rivers Watershed Project. Advised and reviewed initial drafts as Social Science cooperator on grant proposals to federal agencies, directed a research assistant in primary historical research, served as consulting historian with the history group of this interdisciplinary project, evaluated research materials and resources during site visits to local archives and field sites, including research at the National Archives in Seattle, Washington, and provided written and oral reports of research progress at regular, twice-monthly meetings as the Social Scientist Collaborator, with a multidisciplinary group headed by Dr. Bernard Bormann (Scientist/Team Leader of the Ecosystem Processes Program with the USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR) and Dr. John C. Tappeiner (Professor of Silviculture in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University).

Manuscript Reviewer, winter 2003. Reviewed manuscript of Gary Anderson, The Changing West in the History of America for Longman Publishers and provided detailed editorial suggestions for the author as a contributor to the peer review process for that press (Fall 2003).

Manuscript reviewer, winter 2003. Reviewed manuscript of Tim Shannon’s Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America for Longman Publishers and provided detailed editorial suggestions for the author as a contributor to the peer review process for that press (Winter 2003).

Assistant Professor, Senior Research, Oregon State University, 1997-98. Principle Investigator on Grant-funded appointment to research and write a history of the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest with support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Station. Directed an oral history project with a staff of 12 transcriptionists and research assistants, scheduled and conducted oral history interviews, and accomplished archival research needed to prepare a book manuscript for publication.

Contract Historian, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Portland, Oregon, 1992-96. Forest Science Research and Scientific Communities in Alaska: A History of the Origins and Evolution of USDA Forest Service Research in Juneau, Fairbanks, and Anchorage. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, General Technical Report PNW-GTR-426, March 1998.

Project Director, Western Oregon State College, Monmouth, Oregon, 1993. Coordinated an agreement between W.O.S.C. and the Dallas Mennonite Retirement Community, Inc. for the purpose of establishing an ongoing oral history project focussing on DMRC residents. Recruited student interviewers and established a training program (with class credit) in cooperation with the Departments of Anthropology and History.

Contract Editor, A Silvicultural Approach to Animal Damage Management in the Pacific Northwest (Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1991). Edited and prepared for publication a 1,000-page book-manuscript (text, tables, charts, and figures). Advised and consulted with 42 authors and technical editors in preparation and revision of chapter drafts, coordinated production with layout editor, prepared lists of scientific names and a glossary of definitions, compiled index, and reviewed final page-proofs. This book was awarded the Wildlife Society Award for Editing of Wildlife Publications (1992).

Contract Editor, A Conservation Strategy for the Northern Spotted Owl: Report of the Interagency Scientific Committee to Address the Conservation of the Northern Spotted Owl (Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, April 1990). Edited and revised the final draft of the report of the interagency committee (Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service) on the status of spotted owls in old-growth forests.

Contract Editor; Oregon State University, Forest Research Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon, March 1990 to 1992. Edited articles for publication in scientific journals and advised authors on revisions.

Assignment Editor, Pullman, Washington: First Century Limited (Moscow, Idaho: News-Review Publishing Company, 1988). Developed a list of community authors and topics for the Centennial History of Pullman, Washington. Developed project themes and directed research and writing with 21 local historians and writers. Selected and edited photographs and section content in cooperation with historical societies, archives, residents, and publisher.

Production Coordinator, Kittson Family History (Pullman: Washington State University Department of History, 1988). Selected and edited photographs, drafted genealogical chart and cover graphics, edited content and style, coordinated printing.

Research and publications:

•review [invited] of Lawrence Lipin, Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30 (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007) in preparation for the Canadian Journal of History.

•“Agriculture: North America since 1750”, in The Encyclopedia of the Modern World (NY: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007). Article submitted at invitation of Managing Editor and accepted for forthcoming publication.

•“Farms and Farmers: The United States since 1750”, in The Encyclopedia of the Modern World (NY: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007). Article submitted at invitation of Managing Editor, currently in copy edit review.

•Necessary Work: Discovering Old Forests, New Outlooks, and Community on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest, 1948-2000. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, PNW GTR 687, March 2007.

• review [invited] of William L. Willingham’s recent book, Starting Over: Community Building on the Eastern Oregon Frontier (Corvallis: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2005) for the Pacific Northwest Quarterly Volume 97 Number 3 (Summer 2006).

• review [invited] of William G. Robbins’ Landscapes of Conflict: The Oregon Story, 1940-2000 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004), for the Western Historical Quarterly, (Summer 2006).

•“’Get Caught Up. Work Hard.’ Impossible inevitabilities in the world of farmers and academics” invited chapter for an interdisciplinary compendium edited by Zachary Michael Jack, Black Earth, Ivory Towers: Working the Middle Ground, (Columbia: South Carolina University Press, 2005)

• review [invited] that comparatively evaluates two related books examining the history of Portland and the history of Portland: Oregon’s Promise (by David Peterson del Mar) and Portland: People, Politics, and Power, 1851-2001 (by Jewel Lansing), in the Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 2005).

• review [invited] of Nancy Langston’s, Where Land and Water Meet: A Western Landscape Transformed (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003) in Pacific Northwest Quarterly Vol. 95 No.2 (Spring 2004).

* • review [invited] comparatively evaluating two related books examining the history of American Indian Identity: Deborah Davis Jackson’s Our Elders Lived It: American Indian Identity in the City (Dekalb: Northern Illinois University press, 2002) and of Roberta Ulrich’s Empty Nets: Indians, Dams, and the Columbia River (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 1999) in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly Vol. 47 No. 3 (Fall 2004).

•guest column [invited] for the [Salem] Statesman Review. Researched and wrote an article, “Bush demolishes global sympathy” (published 15 September 2002), critically evaluating the first two years of the George W. Bush administration’s foreign policy for a planned feature commemorating the anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.

•review [invited] of William Robbins, ed., The Great Northwest, in the Pacific Historical Review volume 71 number 3 (August 2002).

•review [invited] of Dale D. Goble and Paul W. Hirt, eds., Northwest Lands, Northwest Peoples: Readings in Environmental History (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999) for Oregon Historical Quarterly Volume 101 Number 3 (Winter 2001)

•review [invited] of Alexander Ross, Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813 (Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, Northwest Series Reprints, 2000) for Pacific Northwest Quarterly Volume 92 Number 2 (Spring 2001)

•Forest Science Research and Scientific Communities in Alaska: A History of the Origins and Evolution of USDA Forest Service Research in Juneau, Fairbanks, and Anchorage. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, General Technical Report PNW-GTR-426, March 1998.

•review [referral] of John C. Jackson, A Little War of Destiny: The First Regiment of Oregon Mounted Volunteers and the Yakima Indian War of 1855-56 (Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1996) for Pacific Northwest Quarterly Vol. 88 No. 4 (Fall 1997).

•review [referral] of R.Louis Gentilcore, ed. Historical Atlas of Canada II: The Land Transformed, 1800-1891 (Buffalo, NY: University of Toronto Press, 1993) for Journal of the West Vol. XXXV, No. 2 (April 1996)

•review [referral] of Kenneth Owens' book, John Sutter and a Wider West (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994) for North Dakota Historical Review: Journal of the Northern Plains 62:2 (Spring 1995)

•"A History of Forest Research in Alaska: Overview of Forest Research Contributions to 1924 with a Select Chronology of Events Affecting Forest Service Research at Juneau, Fairbanks, and Anchorage, 1924-1990" (Report compiled under contract with the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Portland, Oregon, August 1993)

•"Forest Research in Alaska: An Annotated Bibliography and Survey of Select Historical Sources Documenting the Efforts of U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Research Scientists Stationed in Juneau, Fairbanks, and Anchorage" (Report compiled under contract with the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Portland, Oregon, July 1993)

•"A Comparative History of Rural Community on the Northwest Plains: Lincoln County, Washington and the Wheatland Region, Alberta, 1880-1930" (Ph.D. dissertation, Washington State University, 1990).

•"People Came Together to Make Pullman's History," in Pullman, Washington: First Century Limited (Moscow, ID: News-Review Publishing Company, 1988).

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

•Member, Oregon State Historic Records Advisory Board. 2003-present.

•Chair, Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences Search Committee, September 2004-January 2006.

•Chair, Social Science Division, Western Oregon University, June 2000-June 2006

•Chair, Learning Communities Task Force, Social Science Division. 2004-2006

•Chair, Historic Preservation Advisory Board, City of Corvallis, June 2004-June 2006

•Public Historian Commissioner on the Historic Preservation Advisory Board with the City of Corvallis, 2001-June 2006

•Social Science Representative to the Self-Study/Reaccreditation Committee, 2005-2006.

•Panelist and Presenter for a Faculty Forum on Iraq, sponsored by the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor society at Western Oregon University, November 2002.

•Panelist and Presenter for a Faculty Forum on the implications of the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Western Oregon University,8 October 2001.

•Panelist and Presenter for a Student and Faculty Forum exploring the theme of patriotic nationalism in relation to patterns of prejudice, discrimination, and xenophobia in the United States. Sponsored by the Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, November 2001.

•Social Science Division Representative to the Writing Intensive Committee, Western Oregon University, 2000-2003 (currently active)

•President, Western Oregon University Chapter, Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, 2000

•Chair, Faculty Development Committee, Western Oregon University, 1999-2000

•Social Science Representative to the ad-hoc steering committee for the proposed minor in Chican@/Latin@ Studies (April 2000)

•Social Science Division Representative to the Faculty Senate Curriculum Committee, Fall 1999.

•Member, History Search Committee (Fall 2002 and Winter 2003) for the tenure-track opening in Eastern Europe/German/Russian History (resulting in successful hire)

•Member, History Search Committee (Fall 2001 and Winter 2002) for the tenure-track opening in Ancient/West Asian History (resulting in successful hire)

•Chair, History Search Committee (Fall 1998 and Winter 1999) for the tenure-track opening in East Asian/Southeast Asian History (resulting in successful hire)

•Chair, Department of History, Western Oregon University, 1996-1999

•Environmental Studies Advising Committee, Western Oregon University, 1996-present

•Faculty Delegate to Campus Planning Conference, Western Oregon State College, 1996

•Member, Board of Directors, Jensen Arctic Museum, 1996-97.

•OSSHE PASS Implementation Team Member, Western Oregon University, 1997

•Social Science Division Delegate to the WOU Faculty Development Committee, 1996-99.

•Oregon State System of Higher Education, Faculty Information Team, 1995/96

•Chair, Campus Curriculum Committee, 1995/96, Western Oregon State College

•Panel Member, Diversity Week faculty panel, ”Is religion a unifying or divisive force?”, Multicultural Student Union, Western Oregon State College, 10 May 1995

•Arctic Life and Legend public lecture series, Friends of the Jensen Arctic Museum., Monmouth, Oregon, 2 April 1995, "Enlightenment Science and the Boreal Forest: Perceiving and Developing Forest Resources in Alaska from Steller to Multiple Use."

•Western Oregon State College Faculty Research Seminar , 10 February 1995, "Paul Bunyan with a Clipboard: Myth and Community in the Study of Alaskan Forests."

•Prof Chat, Western Oregon State College, Landers Hall Dormitory, November 1993.

•Master Teacher/Master Student Panel, College Enrichment Program, Western Oregon State College, October, 1992 and November 1994.

•Graduate Student Representative, President's Commission on the Status of Women, Washington State University, Winter 1989.

•President, Phi Alpha Theta, Gamma Psi Chapter, 1987-1988.

•Graduate Student Representative to Departmental Faculty, Washington State University Department of History, 1986-1987.

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

A Silvicultural Approach to Animal Damage Management in the Pacific Northwest (Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1991), a contract editing project I completed in 1991, working as the project’s primary, lead editor, was awarded the Wildlife Society Award for Editing of Wildlife Publications (1992).

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Graduate and Professional Students' Association, Washington State University, 1987-1988.

Regional Award for Best Graduate-Level Paper, Phi Alpha Theta Pacific Northwest Regional History Conference, "Who Fiddles While Sprague Burns? Community and Industry in Eastern Washington, 1893-1896." Bozeman, Montana, 1988.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Member (Since 1987)

Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Division Scholarship, Washington State University Chapter, Spring 1987.

Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Member (Since 1983)

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS:

•Member, Western History Association.

•Member, Agricultural History Association.

•Member, Natural History Association

•Member, Oregon Historical Society

•Member, Organization of American Historians.

•Member, Pacific Northwest Historical Association