E.A. Schwartz
easchwartz@easchwartz.us
Education
| • | Ph.D. in history, August 1991, University of Missouri-Columbia. |
| • | M.A. in history, December 1988, University of Missouri-Columbia. |
| • | B.A. with concentrations in history and political science, September 1985, Regents College, University of the State of New York. |
Recent Experience
| • | Associate Professor, History Department, California State University, San Marcos, August 1991-2010, teaching American Indian history, California history, history of the American frontier, and U.S. surveys. |
| • | Graduate Instructor, History Department, University of Missouri-Columbia, January 1991-August 1991, teaching American Indian history. |
| • | Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Missouri-Columbia, August 1988-January 1991, teaching discussion sections of U.S. history surveys. |
| • | Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Missouri-Columbia, August 1987-April 1988, teaching basic composition. |
| • | Correspondent, Statesman-Journal, Salem, Ore., October 1984-May 1987. |
| • | News Director, KCYX-AM, McMinnville, Ore., February-October 1984. |
| • | Manager, Print Production Center, Portland, Ore., October 1979-February 1984. |
| • | Publications Director, Multnomah Athletic Club, Portland, Ore., October 1978-October 1979. |
| • | Editor, Canby Herald, Canby, Ore., November 1975-October 1978. |
| • | Photo Editor, The Associated Press, New York, August 1973-November 1975. |
| • | News Writer, The Associated Press, Portland, Ore., January 1971-August 1973. |
| • | See Radio for work history between 1959 and 1970. |
| • | The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1980 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997) |
Articles
| • | "The Lynching of Robert Prager, the United Mine Workers, and the Problems of Patriotism in 1918," Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 95:4, Winter 2002-2003 |
| • | "Red Atlantis Revisited: Community and Culture in the Writings of John Collier," American Indian Quarterly 18 (Fall 1994), 507-31. |
| • | "Sick Hearts: Indian Removal on the Oregon Coast, 1875-1881," Oregon Historical Quarterly 92 (Fall 1991), 228-64. |
| • | "Turning Red Land White: What Allotment Means in Native American History," QWERTY 6 (October 1996), 321-33. (QWERTY, subtitled "Arts, Littératures & Civilisations du Monde Anglophone," is published by the University of Pau in France.) |
Dissertation
| • | "Blood Money: The Rogue River Indian War and Its Aftermath, 1850-1986," University of Missouri-Columbia, 1991. |
Reviews
| • | Lawney L. Reyes, White Grizzly Bear's Legacy: Learning to Be Indian (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002), and Henry Mihesuah, First to Fight, Devon Abbot Mihesuah, ed. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002), Western Historical Quarterly 35, Spring 2004, 86. |
| • | Edward McAndrews, American Indian Photo Post Card Book (Los Angeles: Big Heart Publishing Press, 2002), Journal of the West 43 (Spring 2004), 102. |
| • | Drawing the Western Frontier: The James E. Taylor Album, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives, on-line exhibit at http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/taylor, H-Survey (August 2003), http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=15158. |
| • | Edward S. Curtis's North American Indian Photographic Images, Library of Congress, American Memory Project, and Northwestern University Library, on-line exhibit at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/ienhtml/curthome.html, H-Survey (December 2001), http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=14978. |
| • | Nancy Bonvillain, The Mohawk (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1992), and Clifford E. Trafzer, The Chinook (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1990), American Indian Quarterly 18 (Summer 1994), 414-15. |
| • | Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635, Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna, eds. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1988), American Indian Quarterly 18 (Winter 1994), 119. |
| • | Patricia Nelson Limerick, Clyde A. Milner II and Charles Rankin, eds., Trails: Toward a New Western History (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1991), American Indian Quarterly 17 (Winter 1993), 115-17. |
| • | Willard H. Rollings, The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on the Prairie-Plains (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992), Arkansas Historical Quarterly 52 (Winter 1993), 468-70. |
| • | Virginia Culin Roberts, With Their Own Blood: A Saga of Southwestern Pioneers (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1992), Western Historical Quarterly 23 (November 1992), 509-10. |
| • | Terence O'Donnell, An Arrow in the Earth: General Joel Palmer and the Indians of Oregon (Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 1991), American Indian Quarterly 17 (Summer 1993), 413. |
Thesis
| • | "Polaklie Illahee (The Dark Land): The Siletz Reservation and U.S. Indian Policy, 1855-1925," University of Missouri-Columbia, 1988. |
Conference Papers
| • | "The War within a War: Know Nothings, Democrats, and the Rogue River Indian War," annual meeting of the Pacific branch of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, August 1996. |
| • | "Rejection and Acceptance of the Indian Reorganization Act in Western Oregon," American Historical Association annual meeting, Chicago, January 1995. |
| • | "Allotment, Water, and the 1891 Act for the Relief of the Mission Indians," with Patricia Nelson, former chairperson of Pala Band of Luiseño Indians, California Indian Conference, Berkeley, October 1992. |
| • | "Indians, Homesteaders, and the Myth of the Garden," American Geographers Association convention, San Diego, April 1992. |
| • | "The Lynching of Robert Prager, the United Mine Workers and the Problem of Patriotism in 1918," Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Mo., September 1991. |
| • | "A New Look at the `Failure' of Indian Agriculture After Allotment," American Geographers Association convention, Toronto, Ont., April 1990. |
| • | "Henry F. Dobyns and His Critics," Missouri Archeological Association annual meeting, Columbia, Mo., April 1989. |
| • | "Nativists, Immigrants, and the 1852 and 1854 St. Louis Election Riots," Missouri History Conference, Lake Ozark, Mo., March 1989. |
Miscellaneous Publications
| • | Transcription from microfilm, introduction, and notes for "Steele's Modoc Question" by Elisha Steele, concerning the Modoc War, published as "found literature" in The Missouri Review 12, No. 3, 1989, 7-34. |
| • | Survey of American History to 1865 (a college-level correspondence course), Center for Independent Studies, University of Missouri Extension Service, September 1990. |
Presentations
| • | "Presenting Antonio Garra: An Idea for Teaching through Interactive Drama," October 10, 2002, California Indian Conference, Palomar College, San Marcos, California. |
| • | "The Native American Documents Project," California Indian Conference, October 16, 1993, Santa Barbara, California. |
| • | "The Native American Documents Project," California Council for the Promotion of Public History annual meeting, October 23, 1992, Ontario, California |
| • | "The Invention of the American Indian," University of California, Irvine, Humanities Research Institute conference "Telemarketing a Cross-Dressed Columbus," October 30, 1992. |
Service
| • | Director, Native American Documents Project, September 1992-August 2010. |
| • | Coordinator, Native Studies Minor, May 2003-August 2009. |
| • | Chair, Search Committee for Native Studies coordinator, Fall 2008. |
| • | Faculty Advisor, Native American Student Alliance, 1999-2008. |
| • | Chair, University Academic Policy Committee, 2002-2003. |
| • | Director, University Honors Program, October 1995-June 1998. |
| • | Chair, History Program Latin American Search Committee, 1995-96. |
| • | Co-Chair, University Faculty Affairs Committee, 1993-95. |
| • | Organizer, session on "American Indians Persistence in the Pacific States in the 20th Century," the sole session on American Indian history at the American Historical Association annual meeting, Chicago, January 1995. |
| • | Secretary, University of Missouri-Columbia Native American Student Association, September 1987-April 1990. |