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Leavelle
Tracy Neal Leavelle, PhD
Department of History
CreightonUniversity
2500 CaliforniaPlaza
OmahaNE 68178
(402) 280-2652
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
• CreightonUniversity
◦ Chair, Department of History (2011-present)
◦ Associate Professor, Department of History (2009-present)
◦ Assistant Professor, Department of History (2003-2009)
◦ 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
• The Catholic Calumet: Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND OTHER PROJECTS
• “The Perils of Pluralism: Colonization and Decolonization in American Indian Religious History” in After Pluralism: Rethinking Models of Interreligious Engagement, eds. Courtney Bender and Pamela Klassen (New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2010), pp. 156-77.
• “The Catholic Rosary, Gendered Practice, and Female Power in French-Indian Spiritual Encounters” in Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of Early America's Religious Landscape, eds. Joel Martin and Mark Nicholas (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), pp. 159-76.
• “American Indians” in The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, ed. Philip Goff (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 397-416.
• “Exploration and Encounter (1492-1692): Practice” in Religion in American History, eds. John Corrigan and Amanda Porterfield (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 69-88.
• “‘Bad Things’ and ‘Good Hearts’: Mediation, Meaning, and the Language of Illinois Christianity,” Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 76 (June 2007): 363-94.
• “Why Were Illinois Women Attracted to Catholicism, 1665-1750?,” edited and annotated documentary sources inWomen and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 11 (June 2007): 295 pp. [See: womhist.alexanderstreet.com/issueV11N2.htm].
• “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. [See: moses.creighton.edu/JRS/pdf/2007-2.pdf].
• “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). [See: ecai.org/na-missions/].
• “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].
SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS
• Quincy D. Newell, Constructing Lives at Mission San Francisco: Native Californians and Hispanic Colonists, 1776-1821 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009) in Church History (March 2012).
• Lee Irwin, Coming Down from Above: Prophecy, Resistance, and Renewal in Native American Religions in The Journal of Religion(April 2011): 293-5.
•John R. Wunder and Kurt E. Kinbacher, eds., Reconfigurations of Native North America: An Anthology of New Perspectives in The Journal of American History (December 2010): 13.
• John P. Bowes, Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West in Great Plains Quarterly (Fall 2009): 318.
• Juliana Barr, Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands in Church History (December 2008): 1078-81.
• 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).
• 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.
• Thomas W. Foley, Father Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux in North Dakota History: The Journal of the Northern Plains 71/72 (2004).
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
• “Locating Missions in Space and Time: Lessons from the North American Missions Project,” Meeting of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, WilliamsburgVA, 23-24 March 2009.
• “River Crossings: Cultural Currents and Religious Geographies on the Middle Mississippi, 1673-1763,” American Society of Church History, New YorkNY, 2-5 January 2009.
• “The Perils of Pluralism: On Colonization and Decolonization in American Indian Religious History,” American Academy of Religion, ChicagoIL, 1-3 November 2008.
• “The Catholic Rosary, Gendered Practice, and Female Power in French-Indian Spiritual Encounters,” American Historical Association, WashingtonDC, 3 January 2008.
• “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.
• “Spiritual Encounters and Linguistic Exchange,” Organization of American Historians, San JoseCA, 2 April 2005.
• “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.
• “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.
• “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,”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.
• “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.
TEACHING (Creighton University, 2003-present)
• Early America and Modern Europe:
◦ US History to 1877
◦ American Colonies
◦ The Civil War and Reconstruction
◦ Research Methods in History: The Civil War Era in America
◦ Research Methods in History: Early American Travel Narratives
◦ The Modern Western World
• Native American:
◦ The Native American World
◦ Ethnohistorical Approaches to Native American Cultures
◦ Research Methods in History: American Indian History
• American Religions:
◦ Great Awakenings & Ghost Dances: Religion and American Culture in the 19th Century
◦ American Religions: In Search of the Promised Land
◦ Sources and Methods: Religion and Place in America (Honors Program)
◦ Research Methods in History: American Religions
• American Studies:
◦ Theories and Methods in American Studies
◦ Encounters, Frontiers, and Borderlands in American Culture
◦ American Popular Culture in the Nineteenth Century
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
• Faculty Associate, KripkeCenter for the Study of Religion and Society, CreightonUniversity (2005-present).
• Affiliate, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, North American Religions Team (1999-present):
• Fellow, Young Scholars in American Religion Program, Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, IndianaUniversity-PurdueUniversityIndianapolis (2004-2006).
• Peer Reviewer:
◦William & Mary Quarterly (2006-present)
◦ Early American Studies (2010-present)
◦ Journal of Religion & Society (2007-present)
◦ University Press of Colorado (2009)
◦ Pearson Education (2009)
◦ The Journal of Southern Religion (2002)
SELECTED COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
• College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Senate (2006-present):
◦ President (2009-2011)
◦ Executive Board (2007-2011)
◦ Secretary (2008-2009)
• Advisory Board, Native American Studies Program (2003-present)
FELLOWSHIPS
• Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (2001-2003)
• ECAI (Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative) Fellowship (1999-2001)
• Jacob K. Javits Fellow, U.S. Department of Education (1994-1998)
AWARDS AND PRIZES
• Creighton College of Arts & Sciences Award for Professional Excellence in Teaching (2009)
• Michael Steiner Memorial Award for the Best Dissertation or Thesis, Department of History, ArizonaStateUniversity (2002)
• ArizonaStateUniversity History Associates Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies (1999)
GRANTS
• Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, CreightonUniversity (2006, 2009)
• Research Grant, KripkeCenter for the Study of Religion and Society, CreightonUniversity (2007, 2010, 2011)
• Faculty Development Award, CreightonUniversity (2007)
• American Historical Association Albert J. Beveridge Grant for Research in the History of the Western Hemisphere (2000)
• American Philosophical Society Phillips Fund for Native American Research (1999)
• John B. and Theta H. Wolf Award, Society for French Historical 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)