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Title

Associate Professor of History

Office Building

Lincoln Hall

Office

217

Mailing Address

Lincoln Hall 217
School of American and Global Studies-Box 2212
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

• Ph.D. | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 2004
• M.A. | University of Tulsa | 1994
• B.A. | Hiram College | 1991

Academic Interests

• American westward expansion
• Native American history
• Social history
• Prohibition history

Academic Responsibilities

• U.S. to 1877
• U.S. from 1877
• American Civil War and Reconstruction
• Westward expansion of the U.S.
• History and culture of the American Indian
• South ��ֱ���� history
• America from WWI to the Great Depression
• Historical methods and historiography

Committees and Professional Memberships

Committees

• Chair
• Academic Appeals Committee
• Workload Committee

Professional Memberships

• American Historical Association
• Western Historical Association
• South ��ֱ���� State Historical Society

Areas of Research

• Current project: Bone Dry: South ��ֱ����’s Failed Experiment with Alcohol Prohibition.
• The Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
• Industrial Workers of the World
• Native American

Publications

1. “Bone Dry: South ��ֱ����’s Flawed Adoption of Alcohol Prohibition,” South ��ֱ���� History 45 no. 3 (Fall 2015):  189-227
2. Wishart, David., ed.  Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 2007.  Assistant to the editor, and author of the following entries:  
3. Big Crow, SuAnne; Casinos; Crow Dog, Leonard; Curtis, Charles; Deloria, Ella; Deloria, Vine V. Sr.; Driving Hawk Sneve, Virginia; Echo-Hawk, Walter; Fort Laramie Treaty; Indigenous [the well-known rock group]; Lame Deer, John; Means, Russell; Nebraska Indians [baseball team]; Peltier, Leonard; Pretty-On- Top, Janine Pease; Pretty Shield; Satanta; Silver Horn; Standing Bear, Luther; Te Ata; White Bull; Yellowtail, Robert; Yuwipi Ceremony.
4. Wishart, David., ed.  Encyclopedia of the Great Plains.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 2004. 

Assistant to the editor, and author of the following entries:

1. Bryan, William Jennings; Dustbowl Photographers; “Hell on Wheels” Towns; Jennings, Waylon; National Farmers Holiday Association; Nelson, Willie; Nye, Bill; Packard, David; Post, C.W.; Public Law 280; Stanley, John Mix; Wimar, Carl.

Conference papers and invited lectures:

1. “‘For God and Home and South ��ֱ����’:  The South ��ֱ���� Woman’s Christian Temperance Union’s Campaigns for Social Change.” Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE, March 6, 2015.
2. “‘What a Woman’s Vote Would Do’:  The South ��ֱ���� Woman’s Christian Temperance Union’s Rise and Decline 1914-1933,” ��ֱ���� Conference, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD, April 25, 2014.  
3. “Bone Dry:  Prohibition and Its Enforcement,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Grand Forks, ND, October 15, 2010.
4. “Hell on Wheels:  Urban History along the Union Pacific Railroad, 1865-1869,” North ��ֱ���� State University Department of History, November 21, 2008.  
5. “‘Special Police,’ and Vigilantes:  Upper-class violence in Hell-on-Wheels era Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1867-1869,” at the Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE, March 7, 2008
6. “Respectable Ladies, Working Women and the Victorian Underworld in ‘Hell on Wheels’ Era Cheyenne, ��ֱ���� Territory, 1867-1869,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Duluth MN, October 2007.

Book reviews:

1. We Are What We Drink: The Temperance Movement in Minnesota by Sabine Meyer. Middle West Review, in press.
2. Nebraska History, 4th ed. By James Olson, Ron Naugle, and John Montag. South ��ֱ���� History, in press.
3. Nature’s Noblemen:  Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West by Monica Rico. Great Plains Quarterly 35, no 2 (spring 2015):  217-218.
4. . Western Historical Quarterly 45 no. 1 (Spring 2014):  72-73. DOI: 10.2307/westhistquar.45.1.0072
5. The Indianization of Lewis and Clark, by William Swagerty. South ��ֱ���� History 44 no. 4 (winter 2014):  347-348.
6. I’ll Be Here in the Morning:  the Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt by Brian T. Atkinson. Great Plains Quarterly 33 no. 4 (fall 2013):  264.
7. Steamboats West:  The 1859 American  Fur Company Missouri River Expedition by Lawrence Larsen and Barbara Cottrell eds., South ��ֱ���� History 41 no. 4 (winter 2011):  456.
8. Wyoming Range War:  The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County by John W. Davis. Western Historical Quarterly 42, no. 3 (Autumn 2011): 402. DOI: 10.2307/westhistquar.42.3.0402
9. Seth Bullock:  Black Hills Lawman by David Wolff. Western Historical Quarterly 41 no. 4 (winter 2010):  509-510.
10. A Remarkable Curiosity:   Dispatches from a New York City Journalist's 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West by Amos Cummings. South ��ֱ���� History 39, no. 3 (fall 2009):  278-279
11. To Live’s To Fly by John Kruth and Robert Earl Hardy, A Deeper Shade of Blue:  by Robert Earl Hardy. Great Plains Quarterly 29, no. 4 (Fall 2009):  339-340.
12. Roadside History of South ��ֱ����, (Mountain Press Company, 1994) by Linda Hasselstrom, Great Plains Quarterly 16 no. 1 (Winter 1996):  77.