Seth Archer. Department of History Utah State University 0710 Old Main Hill Logan, UT

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1 EDUCATION Seth Archer Department of History Utah State University 0710 Old Main Hill Logan, UT University of California, Riverside PhD, History, 2015 College of William and Mary MA, History, 2009 University of Arizona MFA, Creative Writing, 1999 College of William and Mary BA, Religion/English, 1996 PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor, Department of History, Utah State University 2018 Current courses: American History to 1877; Seminar on the American West (grad) Mellon Research Fellow in American History, University of Cambridge Convener, American History Graduate Workshop Instructor, New Worlds in Early America (MPhil seminar) Supervisor (small-group undergraduate instruction), North American History from c.1500 to 1865 Guest Instructor, World Environmental History PUBLICATIONS Book: Sharks upon the Land: Colonialism, Indigenous Health, and Culture in Hawaiʻi, (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Articles: Colonialism and Other Afflictions: Rethinking Native American Health History, History Compass (2016) Remedial Agents: Missionary Physicians and the Depopulation of Hawai i, Pacific Historical Review (2010) Book reviews: Reviews in American History (forthcoming 2019) Western Historical Quarterly (forthcoming 2018, 2015) William and Mary Quarterly (2017) Pacific Historical Review (2017, 2015) 1

2 Journal of American Studies (2016) Native American and Indigenous Studies (2015) Critical Essays: I Had a Terror : Emily Dickinson s Demon, Southwest Review (2009); reprinted in Bloom s Modern Critical Views: Emily Dickinson, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House/Infobase Learning, 2017) Reading the Riot Acts, Southwest Review (2006) PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS Association of British American Nineteenth-Century Historians (BrANCH) annual 2017 conference, University of Warwick Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (invited talk) 2017 Cambridge American History Seminar (invited talk) 2016 McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania (invited talk) 2015 Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association (AHA) annual 2015 conference, Sacramento Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual conference, National 2015 Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC AHA annual conference, New York 2015 Ninth Annual Western History Dissertation Workshop, University of Washington 2014 Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest Pacific Coast Branch AHA annual conference, Portland 2014 Cotsen Foundation Summer Institute for Teachers (invited talk), Huntington Library 2014 Native American and Indigenous Studies Association annual conference, 2013 University of Saskatchewan AHA NEH Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges Institute (invited talk), 2013 Huntington Library UC-Irvine Workshop on Settler Colonialism in U.S. History and Culture 2013 UC-Riverside Symposium on Epidemics and History

3 Pacific Coast Branch AHA annual conference, University of San Diego 2012 Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture annual conference, 2012 Huntington Library Western History Association annual conference, Incline Village, NV 2010 American Society for Ethnohistory annual conference, New Orleans 2009 Sixteenth Century Society annual conference, St. Louis 2008 CONFERENCES AND PANELS ORGANIZED Pacific History Association annual conference (co-organizer), Cambridge 2018 Indigenous Revolutions, (panel), AHA annual conference, New York; 2015 Elizabeth A. Fenn, chair Survival, Sustenance, and Recognition in the Indigenous Pacific (panel), 2014 Pacific Coast Branch AHA annual conference, Portland; Jeffrey Ostler, chair HONORS AND AWARDS Shortlisted, Cambridge University Students Union teaching award, graduate 2017 student supervision category Presidents Graduate Student Travel Award, Pacific Coast Branch AHA 2014 Chancellor s Distinguished Fellowship, UC-Riverside McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction, Southwest Review 2009 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS Molina Fellow in the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Huntington Library 2014 Andrew Vincent White and Florence Wales White Dissertation Fellowship, UC Humanities Research Institute Graduate Research Fellowship, UC Pacific Rim Research Program 2013 Rupert Costo Research Grant (for language study), UC-Riverside Humanities Graduate Student Research Grant, UC-Riverside Center for Ideas 2011 and Society NEH Summer Institute Fellow, John Carter Brown Library, Brown University

4 Woody Guthrie Fellowship, BMI Foundation/Woody Guthrie Archives 2005 LANGUAGES Hawaiian (research proficiency) Spanish (reading proficiency) SERVICE Referee, Aletheia: The Alpha Chi Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship 2018 Judge, We the People District Competition, Utah State University 2018 Consultant, Global Catastrophic Biological Risks project, Johns Hopkins University 2017 Center for Health Security CV and cover letter workshop, Historians of the Twentieth-Century United States 2017 (HOTCUS) postgraduate conference, Cambridge Referee, Victorian Studies 2017 Commentator, A Place in the World, by Pekka Hämäläinen, Cambridge American 2016 History Seminar Chair, Adjusting to Empire, , panel at British Group for Early American 2016 History, University of Cambridge Commentator, Bowers of Paradise : Free Women of Colour and Domestic Enterprise 2016 in Colonial Jamaica, by Erin M. Trahey, American History Graduate Student Conference, Cambridge Chair, Imposing Monogamy in Colonial Contexts, panel at Marriage s Global Past 2016 conference, sponsored by Gender & History, University of Cambridge Commentator, The Power of Mutual Understanding: Teaching New Modes of Life 2016 in Post-Statehood Hawai i, by Sarah Miller-Davenport, Cambridge American History Seminar Commentator, Hidden Ethnohistories of California, Nevada, and Arizona, panel at 2015 American Society for Ethnohistory annual conference, Las Vegas Chair, Capitalism and Containment, panel at Native American and Indigenous 2015 Studies Association annual conference, National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian), Washington, DC Referee, Pacific Historical Review

5 Organizing committee, The Significance of the Frontier in an Age of Transnational 2012 History, an interdisciplinary symposium of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, Huntington Library Judge, National History Day, Riverside Unified School District, California 2011 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Instructor, Citrus College, Glendora, CA 2014 History of the United States before 1877 Teaching Assistant History Department, UC-Riverside American History to 1861 World History, Twentieth-Century World History Twentieth-Century World History (writing-intensive) Research Assistant Early California Population Project and Cultural Atlas, Huntington Library/ UC-Riverside, Steven W. Hackel, principal investigator Teaching Assistant, College of William and Mary History Department 2008 European History to 1715 Editorial Assistant, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture Williamsburg, VA Adjunct Lecturer, Boston University Writing Program Undergraduate writing and research seminars Adjunct Lecturer, Northeastern University English Department Undergraduate writing seminars Adjunct Instructor Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA Brookline Adult and Community Education, Brookline, MA Creative writing workshops Associate Producer Chedd-Angier Production Company, Watertown, MA Research, writing, and project management on multimedia exhibits for museums. Projects included Ellis Island Immigration History Museum, Washington State Historical Museum, Illinois State Museum, Virginia Air and Space Center, River Music Experience (Iowa), Panhandle Plains Historical Museum (Texas). 5