MIKAL B. ECKSTROM
University of Nebraska Lincoln, Ph.D. Candidate
10085 Fieldcrest Drive
Omaha, NE 68114
e-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 402.306.8088
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History (expected May 2016)
Teaching Fields: American West, North America, and Comparative World Women & Gender with Plains Studies and Digital Humanities Certificates
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Department of History, UNL, Lincoln, NE
Thesis Advisor: Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History, 2011 to current Masters of Arts in History, February 2012
Clark University
Department of History, Clark University, Worcester MA
Thesis Advisor: Wim Klooster, Graduate Department Chair, History Department, 2012 B.A. in Global History, Summa Cum Laude, May 2010
Department of History, Clark University, Worcester MA Thesis Advisor: Taner Akçam
Associate of Arts, Highest Honors (August 2008) Seattle Central Community College
Advisor: Nada Oakley, M.A. Winter 2007 to summer 2008
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING
Primary Source Analysis Exam Design Team, Spring 2014 University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Teaching Online Summer Workshop, 2013
Teaching Assistant, Women & Gender in US History, Fall 2013, Dr. Margaret Jacobs, University of Nebraska- Lincoln
Teaching Assistant, America Before 1877, Spring 2013, Dr. Kenneth Winkle, University of Nebraska- Lincoln Teaching Assistant, Native American History, Fall 2012, Dr. Victoria Smith, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Guest lecturer, America Before 1877, Fall 2012, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE
FELLOWSHIPS AND ACADEMIC HONORS
Dean’s Fellowship, Graduate Studies, UNL, 2014 Sheldon Fellowship, History Department, 2014 Pauley History Excellence Fund, 2014
Sheldon Dissertation Travel Award, 2013
Center for Jewish History, Archival and Research Seminar Fellow, May 2013 Center for Great Plains Graduate Fellow, UNL, 2013-current
Graduate Travel Funding Grant, UNL Department of History, Fall 2012
Graduate Non Resident Fellowship, UNL College of Graduate Studies, 2012- current Norman and Bernice Harris Center for Judaic Studies Graduate Research Grant, 2012 Graduate Non Resident Fellowship, UNL College of Graduate Studies, 2011
Research Assistant Fellowship, UNL College of Graduate Studies, 2011 Jack Kent Cooke Continuing Graduate Scholar, 2010
Clark University History Department Honors Program, First High Honors, 2009-2010 “Locating Lemkin: Historiography, Concepts and the Problem of Genocide in the American West” Taner Akcam, Thesis Advisor, 2010.
Phi Beta Kappa, 2010
Chester Bland History Fund, Graduate Research Fellowship, Clark, 2010 National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Museum, 2009 Education Department
Stephen and Phyllis Steinbrecher Fellowship, 2009
A highly competitive $2500 award for a self-designed research project. Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Fund for Scholars of Holocaust Studies, 2009 Research fellowship
Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Program Scholar, 2008-2010 Two-tier national scholarship with academic merit and civic engagement focus Pride Foundation, Rosenberg-Iberra Scholar, 2008
Regional LGBTQ scholarship
Clark University First Honors, 2008-2010 Academic Years Clark University Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship, 2008-2010 Selected by Clark Admissions
Commencement Speaker, Seattle Central CC, 2008 Selected by Student Leadership and Dean of Students
PUBLICATIONS
Review of Karen Hansen’s, Encounters on the Great Plains for Great Plains Quarterly. Under contract for fall 2014.
“Teaching American History as Settler Colonialism,” in Why You Can’t Teach US History without
American Indians. Susan Sleeper-Smith, Jeani O’Brien, and Scott Manning Stevens, eds.
Under contract at University of North Carolina Press, spring 2015. Strassler Center Year End Report, 2009- 2011
Resistance through Identity in Nimiipuu Country, (self-published photography book) 2009
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“The Dual Nature of Settler Colonialism: Julius Meyer and Plains Indians,” Western History Association, 14-18 October 2014.
“‘Quantifying ‘The Thing Not Named’: A Computational Analysis of Willa Cather’s
‘Unfurnished’ Writing Style(s).” Digital Humanities Conferences, Lausanne, Switzerland 8-11 July 2014
“Squatter Sovereignty, Settler Colonialism, and the Question of Genocide in Nez Perce Country,” Paper for the 10th Biennial International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Siena, Italy 19-22 June 2013.
“Resistance Through Identity,” Photographic Exhibit, 10th Biennial International Association of Genocide Scholars Conference, Siena, Italy 19-22 June 2013.
“Teaching American History as Settler Colonialism,” Newberry Consortium for American Indian Studies, Newberry Library, May 2012.
“The Way of the Cross Leads Home: The Role of Female Missionaries in Nez Perce Country and Armenia, Colonial and Indigenous Genocides, University of Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, September 2012
Second International Graduate Students Conference for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, Worcester, MA, March 2012
“Locating Lemkin: Historiography, Concepts and the Problem of Genocide,” “Critical Ethnic Studies Conference and the Future of Genocide,” University of California-Riverside, CA, March 2011.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Co-Chair, James A Rawley Conference in the Humanities, UNL, 2013-2104 Vice President, History Graduate Student Association, UNL, 2013-2014 Web Team, Department of History, UNL, 2013-2014
Caroll R. Pauley Lecture Series, Design, UNL, 2013
Preparing Future Faculty, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Sandra Mathews- Benham, Mentor, Fall 2013
Teaching Online Summer Workshop, Summer 2013
Second International Graduate Students Conference for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Design, Clark University, 2012
Caroll R. Pauley Symposium, Design, UNL, 2012
Informed Activism: Armed Conflict, Scarce Resources, and Congo, Design, Clark University, 2011
First International Graduate Students Conference for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Design, Clark University, 2009
RESEARCH LANGUAGES
German: Solid Hebrew: Moderate Yiddish: Moderate
Nimiipuu (NezPerce): rudimentary French: rudimentary
AFFILIATIONS
International Association of Genocide Scholars Phi Beta Kappa
Western History Association
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History, UNL, 2012-current Dr. Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor, Department of History, UNL Graduate Research Assistant, 2011-2012.
Office of Media and Communications, Clark University, Web Team, 2011. Henry J. Leir Luxembourg Program- Clark University
Graphic Designer and Program assistant in United States and Luxembourg, 2009 to 2011. Debórah Dwork, Ph.D., Director of the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, research assistant, 2009 to 2011.
Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University, Photographer, Graphic design and Library staff, 2008 to 2011.
Seattle Central Community College Bachelor of Applied Science Grant Proposal Team, 2007- 2008
Astralwerks dba EMI North America, Street Team Marketing, Seattle, WA, 2001-2006 zeropointdesignlabs, founder of consultant company to entertainment and biotechnology companies, Seattle, WA, 1999-2002
Denim Works, Assistant Manager, Boise, ID, 1997-1998 Zumiez, Sales Associate, Boise, ID, 1995-1997
Moxie Java, Barista, Boise, ID, 1995-1997 Jilinda’s, Server, Kooskia, ID, 1993-1994
REFERENCES
Debórah Dwork, Ph.D., Rose Professor of Holocaust History and Director of the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, History Department, Clark University, ([email protected])
Margaret Jacobs, Chancellor Professor of History, Department of History, UNL, ([email protected])
James LeSueur, Professor of History, Department of History, UNL, ([email protected])
