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MICHAEL
J. LANSING
Department of History
Augsburg College 2211 Riverside Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55454 Phone: 612-330-1665 Email: lansing@augsburg.edu
Assistant Professor of History,
Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN, 2005-present Visiting Assistant Professor of History, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2004-2005 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 2003-2004 Visiting Assistant Editor, Western Historical Quarterly, Logan, UT, 2003-2005 EDUCATION Ph.D., History, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 2003
Sara M. Evans, Advisor
M.A., History, Utah State University, Logan, UT, 1998 Anne M. Butler, Advisor
A.B., History (with Highest Honors), Religion, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 1995 FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS Dale L. Morgan Award (Best
Scholarly
Article in Utah Historical Quarterly),
Utah State Historical Society, 2005.
University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 2002-2003. Oscar O. Winther Award (Best Article to Appear in Western Historical Quarterly), Western History Association, 2001. Burlingame/Toole Award (Best Graduate Student Submission to Montana, The Magazine of Western History), Montana Historical Society, 1997. Robert M. Utley Editorial Fellowship, Western Historical Quarterly, Utah State University, 1996- 1998. William Albert Fraley Award (Best History Honors Thesis of the Year), Department of History, College of William & Mary, 1995. PUBLICATIONS Coauthor, with Anne M. Butler, The American West: A Concise History
(Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008).
Coauthor, with David Rich Lewis, “Surveying the Western History Association,” Western Historical Quarterly (forthcoming). “Race, Space, and Chinese Life in Late Nineteenth-Century Salt Lake City,” Utah Historical Quarterly 72 (Summer 2004): 219-238. Reprinted in Laurie F. Mafly-Kipp and Reid L. Nelson, eds., Proclamation to the People: Nineteenth-Century Mormonism and the Pacific Basin Frontier (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, forthcoming). “Different Methods, Different Places: Feminist Geography and New Directions in U.S. Western History,” Journal of Historical Geography 29, no. 2 (2003): 230-247. “Environmental Ethics, Green Politics, and the History of Predator Biology,” Ethics, Place, and Environment 5 (March 2002): 43-49. “Plains Indian Women and Interracial Marriage in the Upper Missouri Fur and Hide Trade, 1804-1868” Western Historical Quarterly 31 (Winter 2000): 413-33. Reprinted in Roger L. Nichols, ed., The American Indian; Past and Present, 6th edition, (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming). BOOK REVIEWS The
Opium Debate and Chinese Exclusionary Laws in the Nineteenth-Century
American West, by Diana L. Ahmad, for Utah Historical Quarterly
(forthcoming).
A Time for Peace: Fort Lewis Colorado, 1878-1891, by Duane A. Smith, for Military History of the West (forthcoming). Confronting Race: Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1815-1915, by Glenda Riley, for Pacific Historical Review 74 (November 2005). Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, by Virginia DeJohn Anderson, for Journal of British Studies 44 (October 2005). Print the Legend: Photography and the American West, by Martha A. Sandweiss, for Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Winter 2004). African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000, eds. Quintard Taylor and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, for Great Plains Quarterly 24 (Summer 2004). PRESENTATIONS “Forestry, Prosthetics, and
Manhood in World War I America.” Paper presented at the Western
History
Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 12, 2006.
“Where is the Western History Association: Report on a Survey.” Panelist at the Western History Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, October 12, 2006. “An American Daughter in Africa: Era Bell Thompson on Race, Human Rights, and African American Identity in the 1950s.” Paper presented at Organization of American Historians Midwest Regional Conference, Lincoln, NE, July 8, 2006. “Protecting What the River Runs Through: Legal Activism in Minnesota’s Sierra Club, 1966-2000.” Poster presentation at American Society for Environmental History Conference, St. Paul, MN, March 30, 2006. ”Planting the Seeds of International Environmental Activism: Greening the Peace Prize Consortium Colleges.” Co-organizer and Panelist at Nobel Peace Prize Forum: Striving for Peace, Sustaining the Planet, Decorah, IA, March 11, 2006. “Western History Journals.” Panelist at Western History Association Conference, Scottsdale, AZ, October 15, 2005. “The Ethnography of an Imperial Tourist: Prince Maximilian of Wied as Scientist and Explorer on the Upper Missouri.” Paper presented at the Western History Association Conference, San Diego, CA, October 5, 2001. “Applying Feminist Geographies to U.S. History: The American West.” Paper presented at the National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN, June 16, 2001. “Science Studies, Environmentalism, and the History of Predator Biology.” Paper presented at Carnivores 2000: A Conference on Carnivore Biology and Conservation in the 21st Century (sponsored by Defenders of Wildlife), Denver, CO, November 14, 2000. “Between Dissimilar Worlds: Indian Women, Trade, and Cultural Change on the Northern Plains.” Paper presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Mankato, MN, September 28, 2000. “Race, Gender, and Bonanza Farming: Black Men and Settlement Rhetoric in North Dakota, 1882.” Paper presented at the Social Science History Association Conference, Ft. Worth, TX, November 12, 1999. “Masculinity and Bonanza Wheat in North Dakota’s Red River Valley.” Paper presented at the Western History Association Conference, St. Paul, MN, October 17, 1997. “Environmental History, Farm Fiction, and the Past, Present, and Future of the Great Plains.” Paper presented at the Northern Great Plains History Conference, Bismarck, ND, September 25, 1997. “Children of the Trade: Métis on the Upper Missouri.” Paper presented at the Plains Anthropology Conference, Laramie, WY, October 19, 1995. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Augsburg College, 2005-present
History 120: America to 1815 History 121: 19th-Century U.S. History History 122: 20th-Century U.S. History History 150/350: Latin American History History 316: Environmental History History 343: The North American West History 480: Senior Seminar: Gender in Twentieth-Century America History 499: Independent Study—Public History and Environmental History History 499: Independent Study—Political Ideology in Late 18th-Century America State University of New York at Buffalo, 2004-2005 History 162: U.S. History, 1877 to Present History 331: The U.S. West History 338: U.S. Environmental History History 403: Women and Gender in the U.S. West History 550: Graduate Seminar—U.S. Environmental History History 576: Graduate Seminar—North American West Utah State University, 2003-2004 History 2700: U.S. History to 1877 History 4600: The American West History 6610: Graduate Seminar—U.S. West History 6900: Directed Graduate Readings, U.S. Women’s History History 6900: Directed Graduate Readings, U.S. Rural History University of Minnesota, Instructor, 2001-2003 History 3910: The American West: Film & History History 3821: U. S. History, 1900-1945 History 1307: U. S. History, Through Reconstruction History 3910: Making the American Male: Masculinities in U. S. History, 1863-Present ADVISING Undergraduate
Advisor: Christopher
Shockey, "Minnesotans and U.S Imperialism in the Philippines,
1898-1899," Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship
($4000), Augsburg College, 2007.
Advisor: Christina Quick, "The Ku Klux Klan and Minneapolis Politics, 1922-1924," Undergraduate Research Office Summer Fellowship ($4000), Augsburg College, 2006. Graduate Outside Reader: Skylar Harris,
Ph.D. dissertation in progress, Department of History, State University
of New York at Buffalo.
Outside Reader: Terrianne K. Schulte, "Grassroots at the Water's Edge: The League of Women's Voters and the Struggle to Save Lake Erie, 1956-1970," Ph.D. dissertation, Department of History, State University of New York at Buffalo (2006). Committee Member: Jennifer L. Holland, "Salt Lake City Is Our Selma: The Equal Rights Amendment and the Transformaation of the Politics of Gender in Utah," M.A. thesis, Department of History, Utah State University (2005). PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Member, Editorial Board,
“Women’s Western
Voices” Monograph Series, University of Arizona
Press, 2005-present.
Textbook Evaluator, Global America: The United States in World History Since 1890, Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Textbook Evaluator, Created Equal: A Social and Political History of the United States, Longman Publishers, Summer 2005. Manuscript Evaluator, Western Historical Quarterly, 2000; Minnesota History, 2006 (twice). Graduate Assistant to Program Committee Co-chairs, Western History Association, 1996-1997. INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE Member, Convocation Committee,
Augsburg College, Fall 2006-
Member, Canadian Studies Advisory Committee, Augsburg College, Fall 2006- Member, Anne Pederson Women's Resource Center Planning Committee, Fall 2006- Member, Environmental Stewardship Committee, Augsburg College, Fall 2005- Faculty Advisor, Augsburg History Society (History Club), Augsburg College, Fall 2005- Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, Augsburg College, Spring 2006- Faculty Co-Adviser, Coalition for Student Activism, Augsburg College, Spring 2006- Occasional Columnist, “Being Green at Augsburg,” Augsburg Echo (campus newspaper), Fall 2005- Augsburg College Chapel Homily, “Climate Change and Holy Week,” April 4, 2007 Augsburg College Chapel Homily, “Connecting Vocation and Stewardship,” November 9, 2005 Member, Vocation Seminar for Faculty, Augsburg College, 2005-2006 Student member, African-American History Search Committee, Departments of History and African American and African Studies, University of Minnesota, 2001-2002 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Organization of American
Historians
Western History Association American Society for Environmental History Coalition for Western Women’s History Minnesota Historical Society
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