Rank:

Associate Professor, Department of History
Director, D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, Newberry Library

UIC Address:

Department of History  (M/C 198)
913 University Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
601 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607

(312) 996-3141
Fax: (312) 996-5799
E-Mail (Newberry): hosmerb@newberry.org
E-Mail (UIC): hosmerb@uic.edu

Newberry Library Address:

The Newberry Library
60 West Walton St.
Chicago, IL 60610-3380
(312) 255-3516

Education:



• Ph.D. 1993 University of Texas at Austin
• M.A.  1986 University of Texas at Austin
• B.A.  1982 University of Vermont

 

• American Indian History

• Books
  
  
• Native Pathways: Economic Development and American Indian Culture in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Brian Hosmer and Colleen O'Neill (University Press of Colorado, forthcoming, 2003)
• American Indians in the Marketplace: Persistence and Innovation among the Menominees and Metlakatlans, 1870-1920 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999)
  
  
• Articles:
  
  
• "'Dollar a day and happy to have it': New Deal Work Relief Projects as Memory." In Hosmer and O'Neill, eds., Native Pathways: Economic Development and American Indian Culture in the Twentieth Century (University Press of Colorado, forthcoming, 2003)
• "Blackjack and Lumberjack: Economic Development and Cultural Continuity among Twentieth Century Menominees." In R. David Edmunds, ed. Peoples of Persistence (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming, 2002)
• "Reflections on Indian Cultural 'Brokers': Reginald Oshkosh, Mitchell Oshkenaniew, and the Politics of Menominee Lumbering," Ethnohistory 44, No. 3 (Summer 1997), 493-509
• "'White Men Are Putting their Hands into Our Pockets': Metlakatla and the Struggle for Resource Rights in British Columbia, 1862-1887." Alaska History 8, No. 2 (Fall 1993), 1-20
• "Creating Indian Entrepreneurs: The Menominees, Neopit Indians, and Timber Exploitation, 1890-1915," American Indian Culture and Research Journal 15, No. 1 (1991), 1-28

 

• Recent Presentations:
  

• "Conservation and Development: Choices and Paradox." Panel Chair. American Heritage Center, Tenth Annual American History Symposium. Laramie, Wyoming. April 25, 2002
• "Dollar a Day and Happy to Have It: New Deal Work Relief on the Wind River Indian Reservatino." UW Department of History, Colloquium Series. March 2002
• "Polls, Paternalism, and Protest: Native American Politics and Policy in the Twentieth Century." Panel Chair. Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, California. January 2002
• "American Indian Identity in Western Spaces." Panel Commentator. Annual Meeting of the Western History Association, San Diego, California. October 2001
• "New Approaches to American Indian History, A Roundtable Discussion." Participant and panel co-organizer. Annual Meeting of the Western History Association, San Antonio, Texas. October 1999
• "'Traditional Indian Values Don't Include Poverty,'" Delivered in conjunction with the "Past Ties-Present Lives" exhibition, Old West Museum, Cheyenne, Wyoming. November 1999
• "Doing for Ourselves: Economics and Contemporary Indian Life." Moderator and Presenter for a Roundtable Discussion in connection with exhibition, "Embracing the Future: Native American Art and Culture on the Threshold of the 21st Century. University of Wyoming Art Museum, September 1998
  

Department of History