I am a new member of the Social and Behavior Sciences Division, having joined the faculty during the fall of 2007. I have served as a tenured professor at Minot State University in Minot, ND, and Lee University in Cleveland, TN. I have also taught at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and served as an adjunct professor of history with the University of Mary in the 1980s. My professional career has also included work as an archivist with the State Historical Society of North Dakota and Historian with the same agency from 2001 to 2007. I also worked as a researcher for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for several years. My areas of expertise are Colonial America, Frontier America, Native American History, and Early National U.S. History.

Community and Professional Interests

• Frequent public speaker for Native American History, Frontier History, and Progressive political issues for community organizations
• Frequent consultant to newspaper, radio, and progressive organizations on separation of church and state issues
• Member of Dakota Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Local activist with People for the American Way (PFAW) and Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU)

Statement on Servant Leadership . . .

“To be a truly educated leader, one must be willing to challenge convention even when unpopular, engage in critical thinking in all things, and be an omnivorous reader. The truly free mind openly questions all things, sees possibilities in a variety of areas, and does not become a slave to ideology. There are few personal attributes worse than indifference, intellectual laziness, or willful ignorance.” – Dr. Gregory S. Camp

Education

    Ph.D. American History
        University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
    M.A. American History
        University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
    B.A. History/Social Science 
        Mount Marty College, Yankton, SD

Professional Memberships

• American Historical Association (AHA)
• Organization of American Historians (OAS)
• Western Historical Associations (WHA)
• Association of American University Professors (AAUP)
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU)
• People for the American WAY (PFAW)
• Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)
• Council for Secular Humanism
• James Randi Educational Foundation (JEFI)

Presentations

Dozens of presentations at national, regional, and local professional history conferences, North Dakota Humanities Council presentations, and consulting work with activist organizations from 1984 to the present

Grants

Since 1986, over a dozen grants from the North Dakota Humanities Council on a variety of topics ranging from fur trade, Indian-U.S relations, and settlement

Publications

Books (selected)

• Contributing author, Encyclopedia of Native Americans in the 20^th Century, New York: Garland Press, 1998.
• Selling Fear, Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1997
• Contributing author, Virginia L. Heidenreich, editor, The Fur Trade in North Dakota, Bismarck: State Historical Society of North Dakota, 1990.

Articles (selected)

• “Working Out Their Own Salvation": The Allotment of Land in Severalty and the Turtle Mountain Band, 1870-1930, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 14, no. 2, 1990.
• “The Dispossessed: The Ojibwa and Metis of Northwest North Dakota,” North Dakota History, vol. 69, no. 1-3, 2003. Winner of the journal’s Article of the Year award.
• “The Chippewa Transition from Woodland to Prairie, 1790-1820, North Dakota History, vol. 51, no. 3, 1984.
• “The Spiritual Odyssey of Christian Westergaard: Pioneer, Progressive, and Mystic, 1878-1919,” North Dakota History, vol. 53, no. 2, 1986.

The (selected) following articles are part of a nine-part account of the Lewis and Clark expedition for North Dakota History:

“Looking West: American Explorers and Traders Before Lewis and Clark,” North Dakota History, vol. 70, no. 1, 2003.

“Anticipating the Unknown: Logistics and Ideology in the Exploration of Louisiana,” North Dakota History, vol. 70, no. 2, 2003.

“The Corps of Discover Takes Shape,” North Dakota History, vol. 70, no. 3, 2003.

“Wintering on the Northern Plains,” North Dakota History, vol. 70, no. 4, 2003.

“Triumph and Tragedy: The Return Home,” North Dakota History, vol. 72, no. 3 & 4, 2005.

Undergraduate Courses Taught:

• U.S. to 1877 (survey)
• U.S. since 1877 (survey)
• Colonial North America
• American Revolution and Early Federal Era
• Age of Jefferson and Jackson
• Civil War Era
• Rise of the American Empire: 1890-1945
• America since 1945
• American Foreign Policy
• American West
• Indians in American History
• Great Plains Indians
• Ancient Greece and Rome
• World History since 1945

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