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Mark A. Nicholas <nicholma@stthom.edu> University of St. Thomas, Houston „h Co-Author Native American History Textbook (Prentice Hall, expected 2008) „h A Seneca New Order, Culture & the State, 1783-1855 (under contract, Michigan State University Press, American Indian Studies Series, expected 2010) „h Handsome Lake: The Rise & Fall of an American Prophet (under Contract, Syracuse University Press) „h Joel Martin and Mark A. Nicholas, working on a collection of essays tentatively titled Beyond Borders of Belief: Native Americans & Christianity (To be Submitted to University of North Carolina Press) ARTICLES IN PROGRESS „h ¡§Isaac McCoy¡¦s Indian Cartography in the Removal Era¡¨ (Manuscript in process to be submitted to the Journal of the Early Republic) „h ¡§The Ethnogeography of the Shawnee Reservation in ¡¥Bleeding Kansas¡¦¡¨ (Manuscript To be submitted to Western Historical Quarterly, fall 2006/spring 2007) |
| Address: | 3800 Montrose Boulevard Houston, Texas 77006 United States |
| Primary Phone: | 713-525-2106 |
| Secondary Phone: | 281-392-7210 |
| List Affiliations: | Former Review Editor for H-AmIndian Reviewer for H-Atlantic |
| Reviews: | The Road to Indian-Hating from Pennsylvania's Decolonizing Voices With More Effectiveness A Master of the Sea William Penn's Racial Experiment |
| Interests: | Native American History / Studies |
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Bio: ¡§Practicing Local Faith & Local Politics: Senecas, Presbyterianism, and a ¡¥New Indian Mission History¡¦¡¨ Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies Vol. 73, No. 1 (March 2006), 69-101. „h ¡§A Little School, A Reservation Divided: Quaker Education and Allegany Seneca Leadership in the Early American Republic¡¨ American Indian Culture and Research Journal 30 no. 3 (September 2006), 1-21. „h ¡§Mashpee Wampanoags of Cape Cod, the Whalefishery, and Seafaring¡¦s Impact on Community Development¡¨ American Indian Quarterly 26:2 (2002), 162-195. CHAPTERS, ESSAYS, AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES „h ¡§New Maritime History and Southern New England Indians¡¨ in Eighteenth Century Native Communities of Southern New England in the Colonial Context. Jack Campisi, ed. Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. Occasional Paper No. 1. Fall 2006 „h ¡§Native Americans¡¨ & ¡§Indian Wars¡¨ in William G. Shade ed., Encyclopedia of United States Political History, 1841-1877, Vol. III (CQ Press) „h ¡§Native American Religion¡¨ & ¡§Indians in the Mid-Atlantic Region¡¨ in Christopher Bates, Encyclopedia of the Early American Republic and Antebellum America (M.E. Sharpe Press) BOOK REVIEWS „h Alfred A. Cave, Prophets of the Spirit: Native American Revitalization Movements in Native North America (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006) Journal of Military History (expected 2007) „h Alan Taylor, The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006) Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (expected 2007) „h John J. Bukowczyk, Nora Faires, David R. Smith, Randy William Widdis. Permeable Borders: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005). Itinerario (expected 2007) „h Amy Den Ouden, Beyond Conquest: Native Peoples and the Struggle for History in New England (Lincoln; University of Nebraska Press, 2005) Ethnohistory (expected 2007) „h Daniel P. Barr ed., The Boundaries between Us: Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750¡V1850. Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 2006. Kansas History (expected 2007) „h Kristina Bross, Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America. New York: Cornell University Press (forthcoming 2007) and Laura Stevens, Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. H-AMINDIAN. H-Net Reviews (expected 2007). „h William Pencak and Daniel K. Richter eds. Friends and Enemies in Penn¡¦s Woods: Colonists, Indians, and the Racial Construction of Pennsylvania. State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004. H-AMINDIAN. H-Net Reviews, 2006. „h Daniel Vickers and Vince Walsh, Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Reviewed for H-ATLANIC: H-Net Reviews, 2006. „h Hermann Wellenreuther, Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger, 1772-1781 (Harrisburg: Penn State University Press, 2004), Journal of the Early Republic, 2006. „h David J. Silverman, Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoags of Martha¡¦s Vineyard, 1600-1871. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2006. „h Bonnie Sue Lewis Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000. Ethnohistory, 2006. „h ¡§Decolonizing Voices with More Effectiveness,¡¨ Review of Devon Abbott Mihesuah¡¦s Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. H-AMINDIAN: H-Net Reviews, 2004. „h Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney, Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2004. „h ¡§The Road to Indian Hating from Pennsylvania¡¦s ¡¥Long Peace,¡¦¡¨ Review of Jane T. Merritt, At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700-1763. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, H-AMINDIAN: H-Net Reviews, 2003. INDIVIDUAL CONFERENCE PAPERS „h Isaac McCoy¡¦s Indian Cartography: Power, Distance, & Knowledge in the Removal Era, Worcester, Massachusetts, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR), July 2007 „h ¡§Isaac McCoy¡¦s Cartographic Salvation in Indian Territory¡¨ as part of a panel, ¡§Religious Dialogues of the American West.¡¨ To be presented at the Western Historical Association Annual Conference, Oklahoma City, 2007. „h ¡§From Iroquois Borderlands to Reservation Borders: Seneca Manhood in Crisis, 1790-1800¡¨ American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005. „h ¡§Seneca Nationhood in Revolution: A View from Tonawanda¡¨ American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2005. „h ¡§A Crisis in Hunting and Warring: Allegany Seneca Manhood¡¨ Conference on Iroquois Research, Rensselaerville, New York, 2005. „h ¡§The Indians¡¦ Second Great Awakening¡¨ McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2004. „h ¡§The Presbyterian Church in Seneca Life.¡¨ Panel: ¡§The Indians¡¦ Second Great Awakening,¡¨ American Society for Ethnohistory Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, 2004. „h ¡§So We Wish the Reservation Be Divided¡¨: Power, Authority, Reservation Autonomy, and a Quaker Schoolhouse at Allegany, 1816-1825.¡¨ Conference on Iroquois Research, Rensselaerville, New York, 2004. „h ¡§A Reservation Divided: Joseph Elkinton, the Limits of Quaker Reform, and the School House Controversy among Allegany Senecas, 1816-1827.¡¨ Panel: ¡§Indians and Reformers in the Early Republic.¡¨ Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 2004. „h ¡§Captain Ahab¡¦s Indian Sailors and Their Families: Mashpees in the Atlantic World of the New Republic.¡¨ 3rd Annual Mashantucket Pequot History Conference: Indian Communities of New England in the Context of Colonial Change, Mashantucket, Connecticut, 2002. „h ¡§¡¥In Possession of Their Liberty and Independence¡¦ Amid a Multi-Ethnic Maritime Community: Mashpee Indians in the Atlantic World in the Eighteenth-Century.¡¨ Colonial Society of Massachusetts Conference: New England Indians and the Colonial Experience, Old Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 2001. INVITED TALKS „h Handsome Lake¡¦s Visionary Republic, given at When Sullivan-Clinton Meets Iroquoia, Ithaca College New York, 2005. UNIVERSITY & PROFESSIONAL SERVICE „h Search Committee, History Department, 2007 „h Panel Chair: Conference on New York State History, Cooperstown New York, Church and State in Early American Republic New York, June 2007 „h U.S. Department of Education, American History Teachers, Grant Reviewer, April 2007 „h Book Review Editor, H-AmIndian, H-Net Reviews „h Co-organizer with Tracy Leavelle New Mission History Symposium , Kripke Center for the Study of Religion and Society, Creighton University, Omaha NE, March 2007 „h Dual Panel Organizer: A Geo-History of the Early American Republic: Borders, Margins, Public Spaces, and Cartographic Designs, SHEAR 2007 (Accepted) „h Chair and Moderator: ¡§Fresh Approaches to the Iroquois Experience,¡¨ New York State History, Annual Conference, Columbia University, 2006 „h Seminar co-organizer with Joel W. Martin University of California Riverside, 2006 „h Forum Chair: ¡§Masculinity, War, & the Selling of Violence,¡¨ Lehigh University 2005 „h Panel co-organizer: American Society for Ethnohistory, Annual Conference 2005 „h Commentator for Panel: ¡§Pennsylvania in Times of War and Celebration.¡¨ Barnes Graduate Student Conference, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005. „h Panel organizer: American Society for Ethnohistory, Annual Conference, 2004 „h Organized Career Panel for Undergraduate Students in History and Political Science, 2001 „h Member, Latino and Latin American Studies Program „h Sachs Intellectual Breadth and Integration Exams, History Department, Fall 2006 |
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