Curriculum Vita
Mary F. Ehrlander P.O. Box 756460
Director of Northern Studies University of Alaska Fairbanks
Professor of History Fairbanks, AK 99775
EDUCATION
B.A. Political Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1992
M.A. Northern Studies, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 1993
M.A. Government, University of Virginia, 1995
Ph.D. Government, University of Virginia, 1999
Recipient of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship for graduate work on the Constitution
TEACHING and CURRICULUM DESIGN EXPERIENCE
University of Alaska Fairbanks:
U.S. History (Surveys 1 and 2) Fall 2001--present
Perspectives on the North (graduate) Fall 2001--present
20th Century History/Circumpolar North Spring 2002--present
Modern Scandinavia Spring 2003--present
Political Economy Spring 1996--2002
Introduction to Political Science Spring 1996
Introduction to Political Science (distance delivery) Fall 1995–Fall 1998*
Political Economy (distance delivery) Fall 1997--1998**
Citizenship, Leadership and Choice Fall 2002--2007***
Senior Seminar Leadership & Civic Engagement Sum 2004-2007****
Minor in Leadership & Civic Engagement
Teaching American History (ED691) Sum. 2006–Fall 2008
Canada 1867-Present Fall 2009, Sum 2011
The Circumpolar North: An Introductory Overview Fall 2012 – present +
* I significantly revised and updated this course.
** I designed this course for distance delivery.
*** Dr. Judith Kleinfeld and I designed this course, which we team
teach.
**** Dr. Judith Kleinfeld and I designed this course, which is the capstone course to the Minor in Leadership and Civic Engagement. I taught it as an individual study in Spring 2005. We also designed, in collaboration with the Political Science, History and Rural Development departments, the Minor in Leadership & Civic Engagement.
+ I designed this course for distance delivery and piloted it in Fall 2012
Lathrop High School, Fairbanks, Alaska:
American Government Fall 1998 – 2001
World History Fall 1997 – 2001
Economics 1997-1998
PUBLICATIONS and RESEARCH
Publications:
Books:
Johnson, Albin. Seventeen Years in Alaska: A depiction of life among the Indians of Yakutat. Edited and translated from Swedish by Mary F. Ehrlander. Rasmuson Historical Translation Series. University of Alaska Press, 2014.
McBeath, Jerry, Maria Reyes and Mary Ehrlander. Education Reform in the American States. Charlotte: Information Age Publishing, 2008.
Ehrlander, Mary F. Equal Educational Opportunity: Brown’s Elusive Mandate. New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2002.
Book chapter:
Ehrlander, Mary F. “Campaigns, Elections and the Influence of Oil,” chapter in The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska: Multinationals vs. the State by Jerry McBeath, Michael Berman, Jonathan Rosenberg and Mary Ehrlander. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2008.
Peer-reviewed journals:
Ehrlander, Mary F. “A Winter Circuit of our Arctic Coast: Hudson Stuck's Literary, Ethnographic and Historical Masterpiece,” Alaska History 29, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 20-41.
Ehrlander, Mary F. "Edward Anton and Jenny Olson Rasmuson: Swedish Covenant Missionaries at Yakutat, Alaska History 28, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 40-61.
Ehrlander, Mary F. “The Paradox of Alaska’s 1916 Alcohol Referendum: A Dry Vote within a Frontier Alcohol Culture,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 102, no. 1 (Winter 2010/2011): 29-42.
Ehrlander, Mary F. “The Historical Roots of a Frontier Alcohol Culture: Alaska and Northern Canada,” Northern Review (Yukon College); 32 (Spring 2010).
Ehrlander, Mary F. “Alcohol Cultures in Finland and Alaska: Explosive Drinking Patterns and Their Consequences,” Northern Review (Yukon College); 27 (Fall 2007).
Book Reviews:
Ringsmuth, Katherine. Tunnel Vision: The Life of a Copper Prospector in the Nizina River Country. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 2012. Book review by Mary F. Ehrlander in Alaska History, 27, no. 2, (Fall 2012).
Mishler, Craig, ed. Crow Is My Boss, Taatsaa’ Shaa K’ exalthet: The Oral Life History of a Tanacross Athabaskan Elder. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. Book review by Mary F. Ehrlander in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Fall 2006.
Fortuine, Robert. “Must We All Die?”: Alaska’s Enduring Struggle with Tuberculosis. Fairbanks, Alaska, University of Alaska Press, 2005. Book review by Mary F. Ehrlander in Pacific Historical Review, 2005.
Forthcoming:
Moore, Stephen T. Stephen T. Moore, Bootleggers and Borders: The paradox of prohibition on a Canada-U.S. Borderland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Book review in Pacific Northwest Quarterly.
Other:
McBeath, Jerry, Maria Reyes, and Mary Ehrlander. “Educational Accountability: How Alaska Compares.” Report to the Alaska legislature. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Fairbanks (spring 2002).
Publication Award:
Washington State Historical Society’s Charles Gates Award for the best article to appear in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly in 2011 for the article “The Paradox of Alaska’s 1916 Alcohol Referendum: A Dry Vote within a Frontier Alcohol Culture,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 102, no. 1 (Winter 2010/2011): 29-42.
Conference Papers:
“They’re Everywhere! They’re Everywhere! Swedes in turn of the century Alaska and the Klondike,” paper presented at the Alaska Historical Society and Museums Conference in Seward, Alaska, October 3, 2014.
“’Lucky Swede’” John Brynteson: An Example of Swedish-American Identity,” paper presented at the 104th Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, New Haven, March 2014.
“Walter Harper: A Portrait,” paper presented at the Alaska Historical Society and Museums Conference in Haines, Alaska, September 27, 2013.
“Sjutton År i Alaska / Seventeen Years in Alaska,” Swedish Covenant Missionary Albin Johnson’s Memoir of Yakutat, Alaska,” paper presented at the 103rd Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, San Francisco, May 5, 2013.
“No. 9 Above Discovery: How the Covenant Killed the Goose,” paper presented at the Conference of the Alaska Historical and Museums Society, Sitka, Alaska, October 2012.
“Iceland’s Nordic Drinking Culture,” paper presented at the 102nd Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Salt Lake City, 4 May 2012.
“Edward Anton Rasmuson and the Swedish Covenant Mission at Yakutat,” paper presented at the Conference of the Alaska Historical and Museums Society, Valdez, AK, September, 2011
“Historical Influences on Sámi Alcohol Culture,” paper presented at the 101st Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, Chicago, April 2011.
“Through Wickersham’s Eyes: Alcohol in Alaska 1900-1920,” paper presented at the Conference of the Alaska Historical Society, Fairbanks, AK September 2010.
“Greenland's Experience with Alcohol 1721-1900,” presented at the 100th Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study in Seattle, April 2010.
“Comparative Experiences and Responses to Alcohol Abuse in Northern Canada and Alaska,” presented at the 10th Reunion of the International Canadian Studies Institute, Seattle, Washington, 16 October 2009.
"Denmark's Alcohol Culture: The Nordic Outlier," presented at the 99th Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study in Madison, Wisconsin, May 2009.
“Implications of the Rise in Binge Drinking among Young Women in Scandinavia,” presented at the 98th Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study in Fairbanks, AK, March 2008.
“The Influence of Oil Money on Elections in Alaska,” presented at the Western Regional Science Association Conference in Newport Beach, February, 2007.
“Strengthening Alaska’s Local Option,” presented at the Western Regional Science Association Conference in Santa Fe in February, 2006.
“A Comparative Analysis of Finland’s and Norway’s Alcohol Cultures,” presented at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conference in Portland, Oregon in May 2005.
“Liberalization of Finland’s Alkoholpolitik in the Context of European Union Integration,” presented at the Western Regional Science Association Conference in San Diego, California in February, 2005.
“Sweden’s Alcohol Culture from the Era of Liberty to Rationing,” presented at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conference in Rodondo Beach, California, April 2004.
“The History of Native Sovereignty in Alaska,” presented at the Pacific NW History Conference in Seattle, Washington, April 2002
“Native Sovereignty in Alaska: Conflict, Pragmatism, Compromise,” presented at the Western Regional Science Association in Monterey, California, February 2002
SPONSORED PROJECTS:
As PI:
$2,500 Schaible Memorial Cultural Enrichment Award; used to sponsor the visit to UAF of Russian Arctic policy expert Dr. Alexander Sergunin in October 2014; he will provide several lectures and lead other discussions
EPSCoR Buyout for one course for the year 2008-2009 to do research related to Alaska’s Local Option alcohol policy
$3,542 in 2007 as a Program Enhancement Grant from the Canadian Consulate for conducting Canada Days at UA
$3,708 in 2005 as a Program Enhancement Grant from the Canadian Consulate
for conducting Canada Days at UAF
As Co-PI
$5,545 in 2008 as a Program Enhancement Grant from the Canadian Consulate for conducting Canada Days at UAF
$500,000 in 2005-2008 from the U.S. Department of Education to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District and UAF for the Teaching American History Grant Program
$34,000 in 2005 from the Alaska Schools Research Fund for research on School Adaptations to High Stakes Testing in Alaska
$10,000 in 2002-2005 from FIPSE for participation in the FIPSE / AAC&U Arts of Democracy project
$42,355 in 2002 from the UA Natural Resources Fund for research on School Accountability in Alaska
$34,067 in 2002 from the UA Natural Resources Fund for research on The Political Economy of Oil in Alaska
SERVICE
University:
Director, Northern Studies Program (2010-present)
Co-Director, Northern Studies Program (2006-2010)
Assistant Director, Northern Studies Program (2001-2006)
Member of UAF Program Review Committee (2014-present)
Member of UAF’s General Education Requirements Committee (GERC) (2012- 2014)
Member of UAF’s Faculty Committee on the Status of Women (2012-2014)
Member of UAF’s Usibelli Award Selection Committee (2012)
Member of UAF’s Honorary Degree and Commencement Speaker Selection Committee (spring 2010 – spring 2012)
Co-chair of the UAF Graduate Academic and Advising Committee (2004-2005)
Member of the UAF Graduate Academic and Advising Committee (2002-2005)
Member of Advisory Board for Student Support Services (2003-2006)
Member of UAF’s FIPSE/AACU Arts of Democracy project team (2002-2005)
Member of the UAF Leadership Steering Committee/Task Force (2001 – 2011)
Community:
Member of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Fairbanks (actively engaged in MADD Coalition, which is studying possible public policy changes in the state to reduce DUIs)
Member of the Golden Heart Project: Off the Street and Into Treatment, a task force which addresses problems related to chronic inebriates in the downtown Fairbanks area 2005 – 2010.
Member of the League of Women Voters of the Tanana Valley.
Professional:
Senior Editor, Northern Review 2012 –
Taught Osher Lifelong Learning Course in spring 2004 and spring 2014
Executive Board, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study 2010 – 2013
Executive Board, Scandinavian Historians Society, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study 2011-2014
Co-organized By the People: 100 Years of Representative Government in Alaska 1913-2013, a 3-day symposium held at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in spring 2013
Northern Research Seminar Series: Conceived and spearheaded, together with the Alaska and Polar Regions Department at Rasmuson Library, a research seminar series; was principal organizer and moderator of one of two major public events in Fall 2010, a panel discussion on Pebble Mine entitled Pebble Mine: How Researchers Tackle Tough Questions held December 1, 2010; was principal organizer for the guest lecture of visiting Finnish historian Henry Oinas-Kukkonen titled “An American Vision of Settling Finnish Winter War Refugees in the Tanana Valley,” September 2011; was principal organizer of a public service presentation by science writer Ned Rozell “The wonder of it all, baby: the top 20 things you didn’t know about Alaska” in November 2011; presented lecture “Walter Harper: A Portrait” in February 2014; co-organized lecture by Hild Peters “Oral History in the Making: A Family Affair” in April 2014; co-organized lecture by Ross Coen, "'They are our property': How Alaskans viewed salmon as reflected in the Anthony J. Dimond Papers, 1937-1945," September 23, 2014.
Spearheaded a series of events held March 9-10, 2004, March 7-9, 2005, March 23-24, 2006, March 19-23, 2007, February 27-28, 2008, and February 26-28, 2009 under the rubric Canada Days at UAF, which were designed to highlight common academic, political, economic and cultural interests between Canada and Alaska.
Assisted with organization of two symposia at Yukon College: Transcending Borders: A Public Symposium on Alaska and Yukon Land Claims (November 2008) and Governance Under the Midnight Sun (October 2009). I organized a group of students and faculty from UAF to attend and participate in these symposia.
Editorial Advisory Board, Pacific Northwest Quarterly 2007-2010
Co-organized the 98th Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Studies in Fairbanks, AK, March 13-15, 2008
Graduate Advisory Committees Chaired: Degree Conferred
Barbara Murray Alaska Studies: A Handbook & Resource 2006 MA
Resource Guide for Teachers
Stacey Carkhuff Changing Communities: Alaska Highway 2009 MA
Project Jukebox
Amy Russell (co) A Storm Like No Other: Changes That 2009 MA
Shaped Seward Peninsula Communities
at the turn of the 20th Century
Lynne Snifka The Doctor, the Publisher & the Curmud- 2009 MA
geon: How Personalities, Politics and the
Press Set the Stage for Alaska Statehood
Tracey Smith Is Buying Local Better? A Literature 2010 MA
Review and Comparison of Production Loca-
tions and Greenhouse Gas Emissions for
Chicken Eggs Consumed in Fairbanks, Alaska
Eleanor Wirts Changes in Traditional Gender Roles Among 2010 MA
Alaska Natives: Their Effects on Purpose,
Direction, Identity and Family and Community
Structure
Leighton Quarles The Real War Will Never Get in the Books: 2010 MA
Constraints on War Correspondents During
World War II
Amanda Foote Fishing for tourists; cultural tourism and 2010 MA
its origins in Teslin, Yukon Territory, Canada
Birte Horn-Hanssen Visualizing the Present: Current Issues 2011 MA
Within Contemporary Sami Art – An Analysis
of Sami Artists and Their Art In Oslo, Norway
Rachel Gianni Abbott The Scandinavian Immigrant Experience 2013 Ph.D.
in Utah, 1850-1920: Using Material Culture
to Interpret Cultural Adaptation
Fatima Ochante (co) Understanding Institutional and Social Factors 2013 MA
Factors Relating to the Provision of Water
and Sanitation Services in Rural Alaska:
Perspectives on Self-Reliance from Nine
Native Villages of Interior Alaska
Hild Peters Where the Rivers Meet: The Life Story of 2014 MA
the Reverend Helen Peters of Tanana
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