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Manuscript Repositories Section meeting in Denver
The Manuscript Repositories Section meeting will be held on Thursday,
August 31, from 8-10am (check your small program booklet for room).
In addition to announcements and elections (you have to be a section
member to vote in section elections), we will have two speakers:
8am (sharp!): Mark Foster
Dr. Foster has been professor of history at the University of Colorado -
Denver for almost thirty years, including several tenures as chairman of
the history department. He received his undergraduate degree from
Brown University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Southern
California. His research into the Western experience has been wide
ranging and has included studies of urbanization, transportation
industries, the environment, industrialist Henry Kaiser, and
baseball. He is the author of 9 books and numerous articles, and
was the associate editor of the University of New Mexico Press series of
books on the American West, and co-editor of the Temple University Press
series of books on technology and urban growth. He has received
numerous grants to support his research and was the recipient of a
National Defense Education Act Title IV fellowship. He is highly
respected for his classroom work and was named Teacher of the Year at the
University of Colorado in 1983.
9am: Philip Deloria
Dr. Deloria is an assistant professor of history at the University of
Colorado Boulder. He earned a degree in music education from
the University of Colorado before changing direction and earning his
doctoral degree in American Studies from Yale University. He is the
son of Vine Deloria, a Standing Rock Sioux of South Dakota, who is
recognized for his award-winning books such as Custer Died For Your
Sins and for his Native American activism. Philip?s first book,
Playing Indian, was published in 1998 to critical reviews. One
reviewer wrote:
Philip Deloria makes the extremely disturbing argument that appropriation
of Native American customs is embedded in the white American psyche. Not
since the 1970s bombshell Custer Died for Your Sins by the revered
scholar Vine Deloria Jr., Philip's father, has there been a more
compelling and startling work on Indian and white relations.
Custer shattered longstanding stereotypes about Indians and ripped
into federal policies designed to wipe out Native Americans through
cultural assimilation. Now Philip Deloria brings his own critique of
racial relations to the fore.
With the assistance of a $30,000 fellowship from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, Deloria took a sabbatical leave in 1999 to
begin work on his second book, a history of his ancestors beginning with
his late grandfather.
Both professors will discuss current and future research trends in
Western United States history, the archival resources that have been most
valuable to them as both teachers and scholars, and the primary and
secondary sources documenting Western history that archivists should
concentrate on collecting, preserving, and making available for
research.