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Associate Professor Gregory E. Smoak |
Education:
Ph.D. History, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, 1999
M.A. History, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, 1985
B.A. History, Florida Atlantic Univesity, Boca Raton, Florida, 1984
Specializing in: American Indian, American Western, and Public History
Current Research Interests:
The cultural and political contest between white medical doctors and native healers on Western Indian reservations during the assimilation era (1870s - 1920s).
Courses to be taught in the next two years:
HIST 150: U.S. History to 1876
HIST 151: U.S. History since 1876
HIST 351: American West to 1900
HIST 357: The American Military Experience
HIST 361: American Indians in the Age of Conquest
HIST 362: American Indian Renaissance in Modern America
HIST 479: The Practice of Public History
HIST 492: Capstone Seminar
HIST 640: Research Seminar in State and Local History
Recent Publications:
- "Beyond the Academy: Making the New Western History Matter in Local Communities." The Public Historian 31 (forthcoming, November 2009).
- "The Native West Before 1700," in Gordon Bakken ed., The World of the American West (New York: Routledge, forthcoming).
- “The Newe (the People) and the Utah Superintendency,” In: Dale L. Morgan, Shoshonean Peoples and the Overland Trail: Frontiers of the Utah Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1849-1869, Richard L. Saunders, ed., Logan: Utah State University Press, 2007, pp. 33-55.
- Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006)
- "Fort Hall and the Ghost Dance Movements," in Idaho Yesterdays , 47 (Fall/Winter 2005-2006): 6-27, 72-73
- "Broken Promise: The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Unresolved Claim to the Great Camas Prairie" in Idaho Issues Online (Fall 2004): http://www.boisestate.edu/history/idaho/issuesonline/fall2004_issues/1f_broken.html
Fellowships/Major Grants:
- Fellow, Summer Seminar in Military History, USMA, West Point, New York, 2003
- Graduate Student Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 1992
- Phillips Fund Grant for Native American Research, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1991
Professional Service:
- Working Group on Evaluating Public History Scholarship (Joint Committee of the AHA, NCPH, and OAH), 2008-2010.
- American Indian Students Scholarship Committee, Western History Association, 2009-2011
- Board of Directors, National Council on Public History (elected position), 2007-2010.
- Committee on Public History, Organization of American Historians, 2006-2010.
- Local Arrangements Committee for 2008 Meeting, Western History Association.