Curriculum Vitae
Department
of History
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750176
Dallas, TX 75275
Email:
sherrys@smu.edu
Education:
Ph.D.,
History, University of Washington, 1984
M.A.,
American Studies, Purdue University, 1974
B.A.,
History, Purdue University, 1972
Experience:
Professor,
History Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas,
2000-present;
Associate Professor, 1999-2000;
Associate
Director, William B. Clements Center for Southwest Studies,
2000-05.
Associate
Professor,
History Department, University of Texas, El Paso, 1992-1999; Assistant
Professor, 1988-1992; Visiting
Assistant Professor, 1985-1987.
Visiting
Lecturer,
Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1981-82 and
1984-85.
Visiting
Assistant Professor/Field Historian,
Department of History, University of Wyoming,
1982-84.
Courses:
American
Indian History (graduate and undergraduate)
19th Century American West (undergraduate)
20th Century American West (undergraduate)
Women in the West (graduate and undergraduate)
U.S. History Survey I and II (including Honors)
American West Readings/Research Seminars (graduate)
Major
Publications:
Books
Ed., The Future of the Southern Plains. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Paperback edition 2005.
Reimagining Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Winner of Organization of American Historians’ Rawley Prize for best book on race relations (2001). Paperback edition 2001.
The
View From Officers’ Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians.
Tucson: University of Arizona
Press, 1990; paperback edition, 1991.
Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith’s View of the Sioux War of 1876. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989; paperback edition, 2001.
Refereed
Articles/Book Chapters
"On the Home Front: Military Family Life in the 19th Centruy West," A National Treasure: Fort Riley's Place in American History, edited by Mark Parillo, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, forthcoming 2005.
“Frances LaFlesche and the World of Letters,” American Indian Quarterly (Fall 2001): 579-603.
“George Bird Grinnell and the ‘Vanishing Plains Indians,’” Montana, the Magazine of Western History (Autumn 2000): 18-31.
“A Jackson Hole Life: Verba Lawrence,” Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal (Summer 1999): 35-43.
“Lost Soldiers: Re-Searching the Military in the West,” Western Historical Quarterly, (Summer, 1998): 149-163. Reprinted in Michael Allen, ed., Frontiers of Western History, The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Western History (Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1999).
“Reimagining
the Indian: Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Frank Linderman,” Pacific
Northwest Quarterly (Summer 1996): 149-58.
“A
Woman’s Life in the Teton Country: Geraldine A. Lucas,” Montana,
the Magazine of Western History (Summer 1994): 18-33.
“New Directions for Wyoming Women’s History,” Annals of
Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal (Fall 1991): 150-52.
“Single Women Homesteaders: The Perplexing Case of Elinore Pruitt Stewart,” Western Historical Quarterly (May 1991): 163-83. Reprinted in Gordon Bakken and Brenda Farrington, eds., The American West (Garland Publishing Inc., 2000) and in Sandra Shackel, ed. Western Women's Lives: Continuity and Change in the Twentieth Century (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003).
“A Window on Themselves: Officers’ and Their Wives’ Perceptions of Indians,” New Mexico Historical Review (October 1989): 447-461.
“Stanley
Vestal,” in Historians of the American Frontier, John Wunder,
ed., (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1988): 697-712.
Reprinted in David Anthony Clark, et. al., The Power of Many Voices: Readings in North America and United States History, 1550-1865 (Acton, Massachusetts: Copely Custom Publishing Group, 1995), 248-260.
“Private
Conscience vs. Public Duty: Army Officers’ Reflections on the Indian
Wars,” in Reflecting on Values: Unity and Diversity of the
Humanities, David Tebaldi, ed., (Laramie: Wyoming Council for the
Humanities, 1983): 71-80.
“The
Bozeman Trail,” Annals of Wyoming (Spring 1983): 32-50.
“Officers’ Wives, Indians and the Indian Wars,” Order of the Indian Wars Journal (Winter 1980): 35-46.
Other
Publications:
"Din
"Women Homesteaders" and "Military Wives/Outposts," in Encyclopedia of Women in the American West (Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2003). Invited.
“Introduction,” to Covered Wagon Women, Vol. 9 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999): v-xi. Invited.
“Frontier Army: Military Life on the Frontier,” “Women and the Frontier Army,” and “George Crook,” Encyclopedia of the American West (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1996). Invited.
“What’s
New About the New Western History?,” Wyoming Annals, (Spring
1995): 4-5, 77. Invited.
“Foreword,” to paperback edition, Following the Indian Wars: The Story of the Newspaper Correspondents Among the Indian Campaigners, by Oliver Knight (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1993). Invited.
“Frances Fuller Victor” and “Elinore Pruitt Stewart,” in An Encyclopedic Handbook of American Women’s History, Angela Zophy, ed., (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1990; 2nd edition, 2000).
Grants,
Fellowships & Awards:
Gerald J. Ford Research Fellowship, Southern Methodist University, 2004-2005.
Ray Allen Billington Lecturer, Huntington Library, February 2004.
University Research Fellowship, Southern Methodist University, 2001-02.
Organization
of American Historians’ James A. Rawley Prize (best book on race
relations published in 2000) for Reimagining
Indians, April 2001.
Author’s
Award, Godbey Lecture Series, Southern Methodist University, for Reimagining
Indians, April 2001.
University
Research Council Grant, Southern Methodist University, 2000-01.
University
Research Institute Grant, University of Texas, El Paso, 1998-99.
National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, 1996-97.
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs, “World War
II: Homefront On the Border,”
Project Director, 1995-96.
National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1994.
Lola
Homsher Research Grant, Wyoming State Historical Society, 1994.
Fulbright
Foundation Senior Lectureship, University of Otago, Dunedin, New
Zealand, 1993.
Frederick
W. Beinecke Fellowship in Western Americana, Beinecke Library, Yale
University, 1992.
Faculty
Development and University Research Institution Grants, UTEP, 1992-93.
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Education, “Indigenous
Responses to European
Colonization of the Americas,” Project Director, 1991-92.
Andrew
Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library, 1991.
National
Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections Grant, 1990
University
Research Institution Grants, UTEP, 1989-90.
Wyoming
Council for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Research &
Study, 1988-89.
Wyoming Council for the Humanities, Special Projects Grant, November 1987-June, 1988.
Beveridge
Award, American Historical Assocation, 1986.
Wyoming
Council for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Research &
Study, 1984-85.
Newberry
Library, Short-Term Fellowship, 1980.
Arthur
A. Denny Fellowship (research grant), University of Washington, 1979.
Phi
Beta Kappa, Purdue University, 1972.
Book, The View From Officers’ Row selected for List of Outstanding
Books of 1990 compiled by Choice:
Current Reviews for College Libraries.
Invited
Lectures (selected list):
"Winning the West Revisted," Department of Education "Teaching American History" Conference, Vancouver, Washington, May 2004. A variation of this paper was delivered at a National Park Service Conference, Ft. Laramie, Wyoming, August 2004.
"Indians, Imagination and Policy in the Twentieth Century West," Ray Allen Billington Lecture, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, February 2004.
"On the Home Front: Military Family Life in the 19th Century West," Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, September 2003.
“Indians, the Counterculture and the New Left,” Oklahoma Professional Historians Association, Stillwater, Oklahoma, February 2001.
“After the Trail Dust Settled: Reimagining Montana’s Indians in the Early Twentieth Century,” Bozeman Trail Heritage Conference, Montana Historical Society, Bozeman, Montana, July 1999.
“Ambivalent Conquerors: The Army and the Indian in the 19th Century West,” “Contested Ground” Symposium, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois, May 1999.
“Indians, Imagination and Identity in the 20th Century American West,” Phi Alpha Theta Banquet Speaker, University of Toledo, April 1999.
“The Perils of Public History in a Contentious World,” Wyoming Association of Professional Historians, Casper, Wyoming, April 1995.
“Caught in the Crossfires: Women and the Indian Wars,” Colorado Historical Society, Denver, Colorado, October 1994.
“American Indians: Their Past and Present Status in the United States,” New Zealand International Affairs Group, Timaru, New Zealand, October 1993.
“Reimagining Indians: Popularizers of Ethnography, 1880-1930,” Maori Studies Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, September 1993.
“Beyond Princess and Squaw: Women and the United States Indian Wars,” Royal Society of New Zealand, History Section, Otago Branch, Dunedin, New Zealand, September 1993.
“American Indians’ Tribal Rights and Sovereignty in the United States,” University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, August 1993.
“The West of Alfred Jacob Miller,” El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, February 1993.
“Reimagining the Indian: C.E.S. Wood and Mabel Dodge Luhan,” Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, February 1993.
“The Women in the Indian Wars Story,” Western New Mexico State University, Silver City, New Mexico, March 1992.
“George Bird Grinnell and the Indians of Montana,” and “Participants’ Private Reflections on a Public War,’ Montana History Conference, Helena, October 1991.
“In Contemplation and Combat: Army Officers and Indians,” Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, May 1991.
“An Enlisted Man’s View of the Indian Wars,” Texas A & M University, April 1991.
Conference
Papers:
"Indians, the Counterculture and the New Left in the Pacific Northwest," American Society for Ethnohistory, Chicago, Illinois, October 2004.
“On the Middle Ground: Francis LaFlesche,” American Society for Ethnohistory, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1998.
“Women’s Experience in Jackson Hole,” Fourth Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, Yellowstone National Park, October 1997.
“Reimagining the Indian: Charles Erskine Scott Wood and Frank Linderman,” Symposium of the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest,” Seattle, Washington, November 1994.
“Reimagining the Indian: Charles Fletcher Lummis and Mabel Dodge Luhan,” Organization of American Historians, Atlanta, Georgia, April 1994.
“Private Battles on Public Wars: Army Officers’ Personal Reflections on the Indian Wars,” American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., December 1992.
“Filming the Western Past,” Western History Association, New Haven, Connecticut, October 1992.
“From Enemy to Inspiration: C.E.S. Wood and the Indians,” Western History Association, Reno, Nevada, October 1990.
“Rethinking ‘The Indian’: Mary Roberts Rinehart and Mabel Dodge Luhan,” New Mexico Women’s Studies Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico, February 1990.
“With Mackenzie on the Texas and Wyoming Frontiers: A Private’s Perspective,” Texas State Historical Association, Lubbock, Texas, March 1989.
“Single Women Homesteaders: The Perplexing Case of Elinore Pruitt Stewart,” American Historical Association, Pacific Coast Branch, San Francisco, August 1988.
“The Real and the Fictional Elinore Pruitt Stewart,” Women’s West Conference, San Francisco, August 1987.
“‘We Find Them Decidedly Human:’ Army Officers’ and Wives’ Reflections on 19th Century Indian Women,” American Society for Ethnohistory, Charleston, South Carolina, November 1986.
“Perceptions of Indians: Army Officers and Their Wives on the Military Frontier,” Western History Association, Billings, Montana, 1986.
Professional
Memberships:
American
Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Western History Association
American Society for Ethnohistory
Coalition for Western Women’s History
Coordinating Council for Women in History
Western Association for Women Historians
Texas State Historical Association
Wyoming State Historical Society
Professional
Service:
Organization
of American Historians, Distinguished Lecturer, 2002-05.
Western History Association, Council, 1999-2001.
Western History Association, Co-Chair, Program Committee, 2001
Conference.
Executive Board, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern
Methodist University, 1999-present.
Steering Committee, Graduate Student 2000 Program, University of
Oklahoma Press, 2001-present.
Western History Association Caughey Prize Committee, (best book in
western history),2002-04.
Western History Association, Nominating Committee, 1991-93.
Western History Association, Program Committee, 1992-93.
Board of Editorial Consultants, Journal of Arizona History,
2002-04.
Editorial Board, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 1996-2003.
Editorial Board, Annals of Wyoming: The Wyoming History Journal,
1995-present.
Editorial Board, Western Historical Quarterly, 1991-94.
Editorial Board, Texas Western Press, 1990-94.
Western History Association, Arrell Gibson Prize Committee (Indian
History article), 1997-99.
Western Association of Women Historians, Sierra Prize Committee (book),
1995-98; Chair, 1995-96.
Phi Alpha Theta-Westerners International, Dissertation Prize Committee,
1996-2000.
Spur Awards Committee, Historical Non-fiction, Western Writers of
America, 1998-99.
Berkshire Conference Book Prize Specialist Reader, 1999.
Wyoming Historical Society, Publications Committee, 1996-99.
Panelist for National Endowment for the Humanities:
Public Program
Division/Media Panel: 2004, 1998, 1990, 1988
Fellowships Division
Panel, 1996
Preservation/Access
Division Panel, 2002, 1995
Public Program Division
Panel, 1992
Reviewed NEH proposals for Divisions of Research and
Preservation/Access, 1991, 1992, 1994,
1997, 1998.
Advisor
for “Last Stand at Little Bighorn,” WGBH/NEH film for PBS’ “The
American Experience” series,
aired November 1992.
Consultant for Discovery Channel series, “How the West Was Lost,”
aired spring 1993.
Consultant for “Held In Trust,” film about Lt. Henry Flipper, KCOS-TV,
El Paso, Texas, aired February
1995.
Published book reviews in American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Western Historical Quarterly, American Indian Quarterly, Ethnohistory, Environmental History, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, The Public Historian, Journal of the Southwest, Montana, the Magazine of Western History, Journal of American Ethnic History, New Mexico Historical Review, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, South Dakota History, Great Plains Quarterly, Annals of Wyoming, Idaho Yesterdays, Nebraska History, Annals of the American Academy of Political & Social Science, Journal of the West, Journal of Arizona History, Military History of the Southwest, Red River Historical Review and Oregon Historical Quarterly.
Evaluated manuscripts for Journal of American History, Western Historical Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Montana, the Magazine of Western History, Great Plains Quarterly, The Public Historian, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Military History of the West, New Mexico Historical Review, Annals of Wyoming, Oxford University Press, University of Oklahoma Press, University of Nebraska Press, University of Arizona Press, University of Texas Press, Oregon State University Press, Texas Tech University Press, Texas Western Press, Praeger/ Greenwood Press, D.C. Heath, Houghton Mifflin, Prentice Hall, Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, and Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
Work
in Progress:
The Women of Jackson Hole, book ms., co-authored with Robert W. Righter, approximately one third of the manuscript is completed.
Indians, the Counterculture, and the New Left, book project in research stage.
Last updated June 15, 2005.
The Future of the Southern Plains, Sherry
Smith, Ed.
Reimagining
Indians: Native Americans Through Anglo Eyes, 1880-1940.
The
View From Officers’ Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians.
Sagebrush
Soldier: Private William Earl Smith’s View of the Sioux War of 1876
“Stanley
Vestal,” in Historians of the American Frontier
“Beyond
Princess and Squaw: Indian Women and the Military on the Nineteenth
Century Frontier,” in The Women’s West
“Introduction,”
to Covered Wagon Women, Vol. 9
“Foreword,”
to paperback edition, Following the Indian Wars: The Story of the
Newspaper Correspondents Among the Indian Campaigners