Suzzanne Kelley

3803 Willow Road
West Fargo, ND 58078
(701) 799-3064

kelley@kindredhouse.net

 

 

 

  FIELDS OF INTEREST

 

American West, Rural & Agricultural History, Public History

 

EDUCATION

BS Applied Learning and Development, University of TX--Austin, 1993 summa cum laude

MA-History, University of Central Oklahoma, 2003 with honors, E.E. Dale Graduate Student in History Award

PhD Candidate in History, North Dakota State University, 2008.

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

2009  

Adjunct Faculty:      Minnesota State Community and Technical College, US History and Western Civilization

Lecturer:                  North Dakota State University, American Indian History

Instructor:                NDSU: North Dakota History (professional development course)

Instructor:                NDSU: Earth, Prairie Homes: A Field School (professional development course)

Copyeditor:             Soldiers and Settlers in Africa, 1850-1918

2008  

Adjunct Faculty:      Minnesota State Community and Technical College, US History and Western Civilization

                                  Minnesota State University--Moorhead, Art Appreciation

Instructor:                North Dakota State University, North Dakota History (professional development course)

2007                

Adjunct Faculty:      Minnesota State Community and Technical College, US History and Western Civilization

Editor:                  Proof-Reading-Services.com, Luton, England.  Duties: edit and proofread academic manuscripts,

                                  books, dissertations, master's theses, and other documents for students, professionals, and    

                                  businesses  

2006    

Historian:                 Probstfield Foundation Living History Farm, Duties: Prepare and submit nomination for the National

                                   Register of Historic Places

Instructor:                 North Dakota State University, Childhood on the Prairie; Sustain America.

Graduate Asst:        North Dakota State University, Duties: Full teaching responsibilty for US History to 1877

Lecturer:                   University of North Dakota, US History Since 1877

    Editorial Internship:         Publication Practicum:  New Rivers Press, Minnesota State University—Moorhead, fall 2006. Duties:  Edit

                                                  books; write feature for High Plains Review.

 

2005   

Graduate Asst:        North Dakota State University, Full teaching responsibility for US History to 1877

2004

Graduate Asst:        North Dakota State University, Institute for Regional Studies, Duties: (book editor) copyedit books, correspond and

                                   work with acquisitions editor, contract coordinator, authors, and style editor

2003

Graduate Asst:        North Dakota State University, Agricultural History, Duties: (managing editor) receive academic submissions for

                                   journal; edit accepted articles, book reviews, and other pieces intended for publication; liason with publisher; maintain

                                   Web site; manage office and train editorial assistants; create brochures, posters, and flyers

2002

Grad/Rsrch Asst:   University of Central Oklahoma, Duties: organize Phi Alpha Theta/Organization of Professional Historians Regional

                                  Conference; Asst. Editor American Review of China Studies; proofread and fact-check manuscripts for Oklahoma

                                  Politics; assist with oversize classes and Laboratory of History Museum; assist with required research and writing

                                  undergraduate classes

     Editorial Internship:           Chronicles of Oklahoma, Publications Office, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City. Duties: Verify

                                                     citations; locate illustrative photos and maps; edit articles and book reviews; write article abstracts.

     Museum Internship:          Museum Intern:  Break O’Day Farm and Augusta Metcalfe Museum, Durham, Oklahoma. Duties: Initiate

                                                     archival process; archive materials; teach staff to use PastPerfect; lead guest tours; develop, publicize, and

                                                     host exhibit; obtain grant money; write newspaper columns; develop web site; create walking trail.

1993-2001

Teacher                   Shady Grove Elementary, Burnet, TX; Certificates: General grades 1-8; History grades 1-8; English as a Second

                                  Language grades 1-8

1989-1991

Teaching Asst:      Burnet Jr. High, Burnet, TX; Content Mastery

1983-1988

Library Director:    Bertram Free Library, Bertram, TX

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

"Coffins, Carnivals, and Country Stores: Emily Lunde's Memory Paintings,"  Swedish American Historical Quarterly 59 (January 2008): 9-34

 

Journal article presently in development

“Allen Sapp’s Memory Art: Rural Living and the Red Pheasant Cree,” Western Historical Quarterly.

 

Journal article presently under review

"Sakakawea, 'girl-guide': Putting North Dakota's Best Face Forward," North Dakota History.

 

 

Book Reviews:

 

                       Forthcoming 2009:

                       The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, in Western Social Science Review.

                       North Dakota Legendary: A Study of North Dakota’s Geography, History, Government, and Issues, in North Dakota History

 

Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration, in Oral History Review (Summer/Fall 2008): 216-18.

Wrangling Women: Humor and Gender in the American West, in Oral History Review(Summer/Fall 2007): 155-57.

 

Thomas Moran’s West: Chromolithography, High Art, and Popular Taste, in Chronicles of Oklahoma (Fall 2006): 366-68.

 

Preserving Western History, in Kansas History 28 (Winter 2005): 298.

Karl Bodmer’s North American Prints, in Chronicles of Oklahoma 83 (Summer 2005): 249-51.

 

Social Memory and History: Anthropological Perspectives, in Agricultural History 79 (Winter 2005): 111-12.

  

Swiss Sisters Separated: Pioneer Life in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Washington, 1889-1914, from the Letters of Louise Guillermin Dupertuis to Her Sister Elise Guillermin, the Painter, in Chronicles of Oklahoma  82 (Fall 2004): 375-76.

 

The Chickasaw Rancher, in Chronicles of Oklahoma 81 (Fall 2003): 370-71.

Wiley G. Haines, Frontier U.S. Deputy Marshal, in Chronicles of Oklahoma 81 (Spring 2003): 118-19.

Museum Review

“Fostering Remembrance and Respect: The New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum,” Agricultural History (Spring 2004): 230-35.

 

Encyclopedia

“Harvey, Frederick Henry (1835-1901),” Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the  American West, ed. Gordon Morris Bakken and  

  Alexandra Kindell (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 2006), 292-96.

 “McMaster’s Oklahoma Magazine,” “Harvey Girls,” and “Augusta Metcalfe,” Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, ed. Dianne

  Everett (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 2007); also available online at

  http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/index.html.

 

Popular

“New Rivers Press: The Feast of Words is Prepared,” High Plains Reader, 12 October 2006, p. 16.

“Augusta Metcalfe: Memory Artist Remembered,” Oklahoma Heritage Magazine  (Summer 2002): 15-23.

“The True Story of the Princess and the Pea,” New Plains Review 2 (Spring 2002): 78-82.

 

PAPER PRESENTATIONS

    

               Forthcoming presentation 2009:

 

              "Reading Morven Hills: Stock & Station Agency Records of a Historic Sheep Station in Central Otago" to be co-presented at

                Western Social Science Association 51st Annual Conference, New Zealand & Australian Studies Section, cross-listed with

                Rural & Agricultural Studies Section, Albuquerque, April 2009. 

 

 “Angus Ross, Afield: An Otago Identity Quest,” co-presented at Western Social Science Association 50th Annual Conference, New

   Zealand & Australian Studies Section, cross- listed with Rural & Agricultural Studies, Denver, April 2008.

 

“View and Reviews of Ten Canoes,” panel discussant at WSSA, New Zealand & Australian Studies Section, Denver, April 2008.

  

“Ada Soule’s Diary, 1900:  A Child’s Perspective of Plains Living Revisited,” at WSSA, Rural & Agricultural Studies Section, April 2008.

 

"Legends of the Lindis," co-presented at WSSA, New Zealand and Australia Studies Section, cross-listed with Rural Studies Section,

  Calgary, April 2007.

 

 "Allen Sapp, Memory Artist: Preserving in Paint the Rural Life of the Red Pheasant Cree," WSSA 49th Annual Conference, Canadian

   Studies Section, cross-listed with Rural & Agricultural Studies Section, Calgary, April 2007.

 

 Moderator: "Gather 'round the Table: The 2nd Annual Rural & Agricultural Studies Book Discussion, featuring Jeffrey A. Lockwood's

 Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier.  WSSA, Rural Studies

 Section, Calgary, April 2007.

 

“Tarras Church Kneelers: Tapestries of History from Central Otago,” Oral History Association Conference, Little Rock, October 2006.

 

“Keeping History in Stitches: High Country History in the Tarras Church Kneelers,” co- presented at WSSA, Phoenix, April 2006.

 

“Augusta Metcalfe, Memory Painter: Preserving an Era and a Place,” Agricultural History Society Symposium, Dearborn, June 2005.

 

“Emily Lunde: Memory Painter of North Dakota and Minnesota,” WSSA, Albuquerque, April 2005.

 

“The Whitemud Leader and the Eastend Enterprise: Wallace Stegner's Windows on Eastend,  Saskatchewan,” paper co-presented at Midwestern

  Association for Canadian Studies, NE, September 2004. 

“Break O’Day Farm: Memory Art and Vernacular Architecture on an Oklahoma Farmstead,” WSSA, Salt Lake City, April 2004.

 

“Augusta Metcalfe: The Self-Promotion of the Sagebrush Artist,” Western History Association, Ft. Worth, October 2003.  

 

“Ada Soule’s Diary, 1900: A Child’s Perspective of Plains Living,” Northern Great Plains History Conference, Fargo, ND, October 2003.

 

Commentary:  Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Vermilion, SD, 24 April 2003.

 

“The Museum Internship: Searching for Excellence in the Oklahoma Sand Hills,” Mountain- Plains Museums Association Conference,

  Topeka, KS, October 2002.

 

“Half World: The Boyhood Environment of Wallace Stegner,” co-presented at Nordic  Association for Canadian Studies, Stockholm,

  Sweden, 10 August 2002.

 

“Fred Harvey: How One Man Civilized the West,” Liberal Arts Symposium, University of Central Oklahoma, 17 April 2002.

 

“Fading into the Woodwork: The Disappearance of Mermaids and an Eagle at UCO,” Liberal Arts Symposium, University of Central

  Oklahoma, 17 April 2002. 

 

“Legacy of Conquest vs. Victory of Decorum,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, University of Central Oklahoma, second prize

 Graduate division, American History, 2 March 2002.

 

 

“Preserving an Era and a Place: Memory Painters of Rural Life” for Double Talks: The World in Iowa: Past, Present, and Future,  The Iowa

  Studies Center at DMACC Speakers’ Series and Teachers’ Seminars, Des Moines, 22-23 February 2008.

 

“Allen Sapp’s Memory Art: Rural Living and the Red Pheasant Cree,” Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion Colloquium,

  North Dakota State University, 16 November 2007.

 

“Preserving the Preservationist: The Art, the Farm, and the Legacy of Augusta Metcalfe,”co-presented at Oklahoma's 19th Annual

  Statewide Preservation Conference, Guthrie, OK, June 2007.     

 

“Layman’s Guide to Writing a National Register Nomination,” Preservation North Dakota Conference, Fargo, May 2005.

 

“Ada Soule,” Department of History faculty seminar, North Dakota State University, Spring 2004.

 

“Coming of Age in North Dakota: Gender and the Editing of Memory,” co-keynote presentation at Red River Women’s Studies

  Conference, Minnesota State University Moorhead, MN, October 2003.

 

 

 

REFERENCES

 

Dr. Mark Harvey, NDSU, Department of History, Philosophy, and Religion

Dr. Kimberly Porter, University of North Dakota, Department of History

Mary Ann Blochowiak, Editor (ret.) The Chronicles of Oklahoma