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Leavelle
TRACY NEAL LEAVELLE
Department of History
CreightonUniversity
2500 CaliforniaPlaza
OmahaNE 68178
(402) 280-2652
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
• CreightonUniversity
- Assistant Professor of History (2003-present)
- Co-director, American Studies Program (2006-present)
• SmithCollege, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities (2001-2003)
- Lecturer in the American Studies Program
- Fellow in the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute
- Participant in interdisciplinary faculty-student project on “Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Ancient and Modern Worlds” (2001-2002)
EDUCATION
• ArizonaStateUniversity. Ph.D. in history (August 2001).
• DartmouthCollege. A.B. (cum laude) in anthropology and Native American studies (1992).
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS (in progress)
• “Encounters of Spirit: Religion, Culture, and Community in French and Indian North America.”
• “A Brief History of Native American Religions,” proposal under review with Blackwell.
PUBLICATIONS
• “‘Bad Things’ and ‘Good Hearts’: Mediation, Meaning, and the Language of Illinois Christianity,” Church History 76 (June 2007): 363-94.
• “Why Were Illinois Women Attracted to Catholicism, 1665-1750?” [edited and annotated documentary sources] Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 11 (June 2007): 295 pp.
• “Prophecy, Purity, and Progress: Religion and Violence in the Conquest of America,” Journal of Religion & Society, Supplement Series 2: The Contexts of Religion and Violence (2007): 14-32.
• “Geographies of Encounter: Religion and Contested Spaces in Colonial North America,” American Quarterly 56 (December 2004): 913-43.
• French and Spanish Missions in North America, with John Corrigan (and Art Remillard), published by the California Digital Library for the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative (Berkeley, 2004):
• “The Osages in Europe: Romanticism, the Vanishing Indian, and French Civilization During the Restoration” in National Stereotypes in Perspective: Americans in France, Frenchmen in America, ed. William L. Chew III (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001).
• “‘We Will Make It Our Own Place’: Agriculture and Adaptation at the Grand Ronde Reservation, 1856-1887” in American Indian Quarterly 22 (Fall 1998): 433-56.
- Reprinted in Major Problems in American Indian History, eds. Albert L. Hurtado and Peter Iverson, 2d ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 333-46.
OTHER WORKS IN PROGRESS
• “The Catholic Rosary, Gendered Practice, and Female Power in French-Indian Spiritual Encounters” in Crossings: American Indian Missions and Native Christianities in Early North America, eds. Joel Martin and Mark Nicholas (volume submitted to the University of North Carolina Press).
• “Religious Practice in America, 1492-1676,” chapter completed and under contract for new Blackwell text on American religious history, eds. John Corrigan and Amanda Porterfield.
• “Colonization and Convergence: Historical Reflections on the Problem of American Indian Religion” in After Pluralism: Rethinking Models of Interreligious Engagement, eds. Courtney Bender and Pamela Klassen (draft completed—volume invited for submission to Columbia University Press in 2008).
• “American Indian Religions,” under contract for The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, ed. Philip Goff (submission scheduled for 2008).
• “A Mountain, a Meteorite, and the Moon: Reconciling Science and the Sacred in Contemporary Cultural Conflicts,” with Salman Hameed (astronomer), HampshireCollege(completed first research trip to Hawaii in summer 2007).
REVIEWS
• Todd M. Kerstetter, God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West in H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences (May 2007): 1-3.
• Steven W. Hackel, Children of Coyote, Missionaries of Saint Francis: Indian-Spanish Relations in Colonial California, 1769-1850, in American Nineteenth Century History 8 (March 2007).
• 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America: Massacre at Mystic (The History Channel) in The Journal of American History 93 (December 2006): 967-8.
• Willard Hughes Rollings, Unaffected by the Gospel: Osage Resistance to the Christian Invasion (1673-1906): A Cultural Victoryin Church History 75 (December 2005): 878-9.
• Peter Stearns, Cultures in Motion: Mapping Key Contacts and Their Imprints in World Historyin Church History 74 (March 2005): 214-5.
• Thomas W. Foley, Father Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux in North Dakota History: The Journal of the Northern Plains 71/72 (2004).
• David F. Ericson, The Debate over Slavery: Antislavery and Proslavery Liberalism in Antebellum America in The Journal of Southern Religion 4 (2001).
• Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown, John Slocum and the IndianShakerChurch in American Indian Quarterly 22 (Summer 1998): 403-4.
PRESENTATIONS
• “Colonization and Convergence: Historical Reflections on the Problem of American Indian Religion,” After Pluralism: Rethinking Models of Interreligious Engagement, Columbia University, New YorkNY, 12 October 2007.
•“‘That Damp Smell of the Earth’: Indigenous Narratives of Home and Place in the American Southwest,” Native American Studies Across Time and Space: International Symposium on the Indigenous Americas, JohannesGutenbergUniversity, Mainz, Germany, 12 July 2007.
• “Encounters of Spirit: Religion, Culture, and Community in French and Indian North America,” New Mission History Symposium, RiversideCA, 1 April 2006.
• “Miami Homeplaces: People and Place in a Multicentered Community,” Myaamiaki: A Conference on Current Miami Tribe Scholarship, MiamiUniversity of Ohio, 25 March 2006.
• “Eeweentiinki: Relationships and Reciprocity in Miami Language and Cultural Research,” with Daryl Baldwin (MiamiUniversity of Ohio), American Indian Studies Consortium, ArizonaStateUniversity, 16 February 2006.
• “Prophecy, Purity, and Progress: Religion and Violence in the Conquest of America,” KripkeCenter Symposium on “Religion and ‘Terrorism’ in Context,” 14 November 2005.
• Invited speaker for roundtable on interdisciplinary scholarship, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, SmithCollege, NorthamptonMA, 4 April 2005.
• “Spiritual Encounters and Linguistic Exchange,” Organization of American Historians, San JoseCA, 2 April 2005.
• “Borders and Borderlands, North and South,” invited lecture and plenary session, Midwest Association for Canadian Studies, OmahaNE, 1 October 2004.
• “Recovering the Old Ways: Cultural Frontiers in a Personal Journey,” Midwest Association for Canadian Studies, OmahaNE, 1 October 2004.
• “Araminai8ni: Reading and Interpreting Early Christian Prayers in Miami-Illinois,” Myaamiaki: The Miami People, A Conference on Current Miami Tribe Scholarship, MiamiUniversity of Ohio, 27 March 2004.
• “Contesting Sacred Spaces: Religion and Geography in Cultural Conflicts,” American Society for Ethnohistory, RiversideCA, 5-9 November 2003.
• “Before and After Lewis and Clark: Re/Envisioning America in the Corps of Discovery,” a presentation in honor of Native American Awareness Month, CreightonUniversity, 20 November 2003.
• “Religious Identities and Contested Spaces in America,” Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, SmithCollege, NorthamptonMA, 12 November 2002.
• “The Language of Illinois Christianity: Translation and Reception in the French-Illinois Religious Encounter,” American Society for Ethnohistory, Québec, 16-20 October 2002.
• “Mediation and Meaning on the French-Illinois Religious and Linguistic Frontier,” New Frontiers in Early American Literature, University of Virginia, CharlottesvilleVA, 8-10 August 2002.
• “Religion and Sacred Space in Native North America: Some Perspectives on Religious Tolerance and Intolerance,” Project on Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Ancient and Modern Worlds, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, Smith College, Northampton MA, 15 April 2002.
• “Communicating Christianity: Translation in the French-Illinois Language Encounter,” Forum on European Expansion and Global Interaction, Huntington Library, San MarinoCA, 15-16 February 2002.
• “Spiritual Encounters and the Creation of Illinois Christianity,” invited lecture, Native American Studies Program, Dartmouth College, HanoverNH, 24 January 2001.
•“Space and Spirituality: Moral Geographies on the French-Indian Religious Frontier,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, PhiladelphiaPA, 15-18 November 2001.
• “Colonial Catholic Missions and the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative: A Demonstration”
- Plenary session and banquet speaker, Academy of American Franciscan History, OaklandCA, 3-4 November 2000.
- The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and the Geographic InformationScienceCenter, University of California at Berkeley, 6 November 2000.
• “Spanish and French Colonial Missions and the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative,” The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative and Geographic Information Systems in the Humanities Speaker Series, Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, 3 April 2000.
• “Geographies of Encounter: Space, Order, and Religion in the Jesuit Missions of New France,” Society for French Historical Studies, ScottsdaleAZ, 30 March - 1 April 2000.
• “Missionaries, Conversion, and Cultural Encounters on the French-Indian Religious Frontier,” American Historical Association, Chicago, 6-9 January 2000.
• “The Osages in Europe: Romanticism, the Vanishing Indian, and French Civilization During the Restoration,” Belgian Luxembourg American Studies Association, Brussels, Belgium, 7-9 May 1999.
• “‘The Land Where We Have Placed Our Fire’: Religion, Encounters, and Fixing the Fluid in French and Indian Illinois,” American Society for Ethnohistory, Minneapolis, 12-15 November 1998.
OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
• Commentator, “Religious Dialogues of the Larger American West,” Western History Association, Oklahoma CityOK, 4 October 2007.
• Organizer, New Mission History Symposium, CreightonUniversity (15-17 March 2007):
- Prepared essays for submission as volume to the University of North Carolina Press
- Organized and chaired guest lecture by Michael McNally (CarletonCollege)
- Sponsored by the KripkeCenter for the Study of Religion and Society
• Program Committee, Organization of American Historians Midwest Regional Conference, LincolnNE (2005-2006).
• Commentator, “Between Worlds: Negotiating Native Boundaries,” American Society for Ethnohistory, Santa FeNM, 19 November 2005.
• Session organizer, with Brett Rushforth (William & Mary), “Language and Ritual in Early American Encounters: A Roundtable Discussion,” Organization of American Historians, San Francisco, 2 April 2005.
• Chair and commentator, “Native Americans During European Expansion,” Missouri Valley History Conference, OmahaNE, 4 March 2005.
• Session organizer, “Language, Communication, and Encounter in Colonial North America,” American Society for Ethnohistory, Québec, 16-20 October 2002.
• Session chair, “New World,” Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, PhiladelphiaPA, 15-18 November 2001.
• Session organizer, “French Missionaries and the Early-Modern World: Ideologies and Identities,” Society for French Historical Studies, Scottsdale and Tempe, AZ, 30 March - 1 April 2000.
• Website developer, 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for French Historical Studies, 30 March to 1 April 2000, Scottsdale and Tempe, AZ.
TEACHING
• US History to 1877(F03, F04, F05, F06, F07)
• The Native American World (F04, S06, F06, S07, F07)
• Research Methods in History: American Religions (F07)
• American Popular Culture in the Nineteenth Century (S07)
• Ethnohistorical Approaches to Native American Cultures (S07)
• Research Methods in History (S06)
• Encounters, Frontiers, and Borderlands in American Culture,CreightonUniversity(S04, S06) and American Studies Program, SmithCollege (S03)
• The Modern Western World (F03, S04, Sum04, F04, S05, F05)
• The Civil War and Reconstruction (F03, F05)
• American Religions: In Search of the Promised Land (S05)
• Independent Studies:
- Regional Identity in the American West
- American Indian Religious History
- African American Intellectuals
- The Omaha Starand Racial Politics in the 1960s
- History Practicum: Teaching the Native American World
- Manifest Destiny and the American West
- Women, Religion, and Ethnicity in the United States
- Immigrants, Race, and Labor in the United States
- Material Culture in the Civil War
• Introduction to the Study of American Society and Culture: The 1890s, American Studies Program, SmithCollege (S03).
• Encounters, Frontiers, and Borderlands in American Culture, American Studies Program, SmithCollege (S03).
• American Indians, American Identities, American Studies Program, SmithCollege (S02 and F02).
• Early American Cultural History, Department of History, ArizonaStateUniversity (F99).
• Methods of Historical Inquiry: The French Revolution, Department of History, ArizonaStateUniversity (S99).
• U.S. History to 1877, Department of History, ArizonaStateUniversity (F98).
ADDITIONAL TEACHING ACTIVITIES
• “Frustration and Inspiration in Beginning SoTL Research,” The Carnegie Scholars Program: A Panel Discussion, CreightonUniversity, 29 March 2007.
• Invited Guest Lectures:
- “What is American Studies?,” ENG 202: Entering a Professional Dialogue (2008)
- “The Myth of the Vanishing (Authentic) Indian in American Culture,” ENG 353: Introduction to Native American Literature (2007)
- “Reading The Jesuit Relations and Other French Colonial Literature,” ENG 350: American Literature I (2007)
- “The Holocaust and History,” HIS 101: The Modern Western World (2007)
- “Pluralism as Process: An Example from Indian America,” SRP 465: Faith and Political Action (2005)
- “Ethical Issues in Oral History Research,” HIS 400: Research Methods in History (2005)
• “American Religions: In Search of the Promised Land,” an annotated syllabus published for the Young Scholars in American Religion and the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture (2006):
• Planning Committee, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Institute (2005-2006)
- CarnegieAcademy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Summer Institute, SnowbirdUT, 13-17 July 2005.
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Institute, ColumbiaCollege, ChicagoIL, 9-11 June 2005
- CarnegieAcademy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, AtlantaGA, 16-18 March 2005
• “Assessing Learning and Teaching in ‘The Modern Western World,’” Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Institute, Rockhurst University, Kansas City MO, 10-12 June 2004.
• Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) Workgroup, sponsored by the Office for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Assessment (Spring 2004).
• New Faculty Workgroup, sponsored by the Office for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Assessment (Fall 2003).
• “Recognizing Embedded Measures in Your Teaching,” a workshop sponsored by the Office for Excellence in Teaching, Learning & Assessment (28 October 2003).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Faculty Associate, KripkeCenter for the Study of Religion and Society (2005-present).
• Affiliate, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, North American Religions Team (November 1999-present):
- International collaborative project developing an interactive electronic atlas
- Uses advanced Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Internet technologies to create tools for visualization and analysis of historical and cultural phenomena
• Co-founder, Omaha Area Early Modern Studies Seminar, with UNO (2007-present).
• Fellow, Young Scholars in American Religion Program, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, IndianaUniversity-PurdueUniversityIndianapolis (2004-2006).
• Peer Reviewer:
- Journal of Religion & Society (2007-present)
- William & Mary Quarterly (2006)
- The Journal of Southern Religion (2002)
• High Demand Liberal Faith in Practice, an interdisciplinary collaborative project organized by Bette Evans and funded by the KripkeCenter (2005-2006).
• FiveCollege Native American Indian Studies Curriculum Committee (2001-2003): contributed to development of certificate program for students of Amherst, Hampshire, MountHolyoke, and Smith colleges and the University of Massachusetts.
• Faculty representative and lecturer, Smith College Alumnae Association Travel Program, “In the Wake of Lewis and Clark,” a one-week cruise on the Columbia and Snake Rivers, 24-30 October 2002.
• Co-organizer and session chair, “Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Ancient and Modern Worlds,” Celebrating Collaborations: Students and Faculty Working Together (student presentations in celebration of student/faculty collaboration), SmithCollege, 20 April 2002.
• Peer review committee, ASU Graduate Research Support Program (Fall 2000).
• Editor, H-AmIndian, the H-Net (Humanities and Social Sciences Online) American Indian studies network (from inception, 1997-2000).
• Fellow, Preparing Future Faculty Program, ArizonaStateUniversity (1997-1999).
DEPARTMENT SERVICE
• Chair, Department of History Assessment Committee (2006-present).
• Major advisor, Department of History (2003-present).
• Advisor and faculty leader, Phi Alpha Theta Student History Conference, University of South Dakota (2004, 2007).
• Chair, Comparative / Trans-national Search Committee (2005-2006).
• Director, Public History Internship Program (2003-2006).
• Modern Europe Search Committee (2004-2005).
• Faculty leader, History Club trip to HomesteadNational Monument, 19 September 2004.
• Co-developer, Department of History Course Portfolio Assessment Forms and Procedures (2004).
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
• Co-Director (with Heather Fryer), American Studies Program (2006-present):
- completed revisions to new major in 2007
- instituted new minor in 2008
• Faculty Senate (2006-present):
- Executive Board (2007-present)
- Teaching Load Equity Task Force (2007)
- Speaker Policy Task Force (2007)
- Identity and Academic Planning Committee (2006-2007)
• Faculty advisor, National and International Fellowships Committee (2005-present)
- Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship
- Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
- James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation
• Advisory Board, Native American Studies Program (2003-present).
• Council of Chairs (2006-2007): Facilities Task Force.
• “Gendered Practice and Female Power in a Seventeenth-Century French and American Indian Community,” Faculty Fridays, Sponsored by the Kenefick Chair in the Humanities, CreightonUniversity, 23 February 2007.
• Session chair, Klutznick-Harris Symposium (2004-2007).
• Reviewer, CreightonUniversityGraduateSchool Summer Faculty Fellowship Proposals (2006).
• Freshman Seminar Advisor (2004-2006).
• Session leader, Summer Preview, A Day in the Life of a Creighton Student (2005, 2006).
• Captain, AnnualCreightonUniversity United Way of the Midlands Campaign (2003-2005).
• Faculty participant and advisor, Learn About the “F” Word: Feminism [a student-initiated project] (2005).
• Blessing, Welcome Week Interfaith Service (2005).
• Lakota Immersion and Mentorship Program (2003, 2004).
• “Why is the US so Religious?” Sixty-Second Lecture Series, CreightonUniversity Honors Program, 26 October 2004.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
• Dateline: Creighton:
- “Remembering Jamestown” (8 May 2007)
- “Thanksgiving: Myth and History” (13 November 2006)
• Founding member, Omaha Public Schools Native American Achievement Council (2004-2005).
• “Being Jewish in Early America,” B’nai B’rith Breadbreakers Luncheon, 14 July 2004.
AWARDS AND HONORS
• Research Grant, KripkeCenter for the Study of Religion and Society (2007)
• Faculty Development Award (2007)
• Summer Faculty Research Fellowship (2006)
• Nominated, College of Arts and Sciences Advising Award (2005)
• Nominated, Teaching for Tomorrow Award, Omicron Delta Kappa (2005)
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (2001-2003)
• Michael Steiner Memorial Award for the Best Dissertation or Thesis, Department of History, ArizonaStateUniversity (2002)
• American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere (2000)
• ECAI (Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative) Fellowship (1999-2001)
• American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund for Native American Research (1999)
• John B. and Theta H. Wolf Award, Society for French Historical Studies (1999)
• ArizonaStateUniversity History Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies (1999)
• Graduate Research Support Program Grant, ArizonaStateUniversity (1999)
• American Historical Association Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant for Research in African, Asian, or European History (1998)
• Jacob K. Javits Fellow, U.S. Department of Education (1994-1998)
MEMBERSHIPS IN ACADEMIC SOCIETIES
• American Historical Association• American Society for Ethnohistory
• AmericanAcademy of Religion• Organization of American Historians
• American Studies Association• Western History Association
• Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture