Michel Hogue

5080 Mosse Humanities Building

455 N. Park Street

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Madison, WI  53703

hogue@wisc.edu

 

Education

Ph.D. (in progress), University of Wisconsin-Madison.                                              

Dissertation:  “Between Race and Nation: The Plains Métis and the Canada-United States Border.” Committee: Susan L. Johnson, chair; William Cronon, Ned Blackhawk, and Sarah Carter, members.

Fields: U.S. West; U.S. History, 1830-1930; Canada, 1867- present

 

M.A., 2002, University of Calgary.                                                    

Thesis:  “Crossing the Line:  The ‘Canadian’ Cree in the Canada-United States Borderlands, 1870-1900.” Advisors: Sarah Carter, Elizabeth Jameson

 

B.A., 1998, Simon Fraser University.                                                 

History and Latin American Studies major

 

Fellowships and Awards (Selected)

 

Doris G. Quinn Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-09

Roger Blattberg and Milton R. Gusch Dissertator Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007

Innovation in Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006

Committee on Institutional Cooperation Graduate Student Fellowship in American Indian Studies, 2006

Theodore J. Oesau Scholarship, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, 2002-06

Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholarship, 2002-03

James H. Bradley Fellowship, Montana Historical Society, 2001

Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship, 2000-01

Faculty of Graduate Studies Top-Up Award, University of Calgary, 2000-01

Chancellor Norford Graduate Scholarship, University of Calgary, 2001

Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, 1999 (declined)

 

Publications

Articles (refereed):

“Between Race and Nation: The Creation of a Métis Borderland,” in Bridging National Borders in North America, ed. Andrew R. Graybill and Benjamin H. Johnson (Durham: Duke University Press: forthcoming).

 

“Crossing the Line:  Race, Nationality, and the Deportation of the ‘Canadian’ Cree in the Canada-U.S. Borderlands, 1890-1900,” in The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests:  Essays on the Regional History of the 49th Parallel, ed. Sterling Evans (Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, 2006), pp. 155-71.

 

“Disputing the Medicine Line:  The Plains Crees and the Canadian-American Border, 1876-1885,”  Montana the Magazine of Western History 52, no. 4 (Winter 2002):  2-17.  Reprinted in One West, Two Myths:  A Comparative Reader, ed. C.L. Higham and Robert Thacker (Calgary:  University of Calgary Press, 2004), pp. 85-108.

 

Book Reviews:

Review of Policing the Great Plains:  Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910, by Andrew R. Graybill, Great Plains Quarterly, forthcoming.

 

Review of The Line Which Separates:  Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands, by Sheila McManus, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 7, no. 1 (Spring 2006).

 

Review of Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850, by Larry Cebula, Journal of the Early Republic 25, no. 2 (2005): 315-17.

 

Review of Rediscovering the Great Plains:  Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse, by Norman Henderson, Montana the Magazine of Western History 52, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 93-4.

 

Teaching Experience

 

Sessional Instructor, University of Calgary (Summer 2006)

Canada Since 1867

Mild West/Wild West: Comparative History of the U.S. and Canadian Wests

 

Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall 2005)

The American West since 1850

 

Coordinator and Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (Summer 2005)

The Santa Fe Trail:  In Search of the Multiracial West (a two-week on-the-bus summer course with 35 undergraduate and graduate students)

 

Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison

America in the World since 1898

American Environmental History

The American West to 1850

 

Teaching Assistant, University of Calgary

Magic, Science, and Religion in Europe to 1600

 

 

Presentations

 

Scholarly papers:

“Capturing Sheriff Healy: Métis Buffalo Hunters & the Law in the Milk River Country.” Montana History Conference – Glasgow, MT, October 17, 2008.

 

“Remapping Prairie History from the Borderlands.”  Western Canadian Studies Conference – Edmonton, AB, June 19, 2008.

 

“The Myers Scrip Commission and the ‘American’ Métis: Citizenship, Nationality, and the Politics of Half-Breed Scrip.” Canadian Historical Association and Canadian Indigenous and Native Studies Association Conference, Joint Session on Fur Trade and Métis History –  Saskatoon, SK,  May 28, 2007.

 

“Between Race and Nation: The Creation of a Métis Borderland on the Northern Plains, 1850-1900.”  Bridging National Borders in North America – William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, March 2007 and Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, September 2006.

 

“Across the Forty-Ninth Parallel:  Canada, the United States, and the Métis, 1860-1890.”  American Historical Association Conference – Atlanta, GA, January 7, 2007.

 

“Marking Differences: The Creation of a Métis Borderland on the Northern Plains.” Canadian Historical Association Conference – Toronto, ON, May 31, 2006.

 

“Desperately Seeking…:  Ethnographic Displays at the Logan Museum of Anthropology and the Search for an Indigenous Past.” Western History Association Conference – Las Vegas, NV, October 15, 2004.  Also presented at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation-American Indian Studies Graduate Student Conference – Ann Arbor, MI, April 16, 2004.

 

“Native Asylum in the Borderlands: The ‘Canadian’ Cree in Montana, 1885-1896.” Canadian Historical Association Conference – Halifax, NS, May 29, 2003.

 

“Marking the Medicine Line:  The Restriction of Aboriginal Cross-border Movement in the Montana-Alberta Borderlands, 1870-1900.”  Montana History Conference – Helena, MT, October 26, 2001.

 

“Crossing the Line:  The ‘Canadian’ Cree in the Canada-United States Borderlands, 1870-1900.” Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association – Vancouver, BC, August 10, 2001.

 

“A Canadian Approach?  Canada’s Official Development Assistance and Foreign Policy Towards Cuba.”  Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) - Vancouver, BC, March 1998.           

 

 

Roundtable Sessions:

Session entitled, “Teaching Race in the West on the Road:  The University of Wisconsin’s Mobile Course, ‘The Santa Fe Trail: In Search of the Multiracial West.’” Western History Association Conference – St. Louis, MO, October 12, 2006.

 

Session entitled, “Comparing Colonial Histories:  A Roundtable Discussion with Shula Marks.” Canadian Historical Association Conference – Halifax, NS, May 30, 2003.

 

 

Invited Talks:

Boundarylines and Crossings” (panel discussion on literary and cultural issues along the Montana-Canada border). Helena Festival of the Book – Helena, MT, October 9, 2008.

 

“The Montana Métis.” Montana Historical Society Museum – Helena, MT, October 14, 2008.

 

“Tangled Threads and Hidden Pasts:  Investigating the Histories of ‘Peoples in Between.’”  Blattberg Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison – Madison, WI, April 30, 2007.

 

“Beyond the Medicine Line:  The ‘Canadian’ Cree in Montana.”  Bradley Breakfast Presentation, Montana History Conference – Havre, MT, October 25, 2002.

 

“Aboriginal Peoples and Fort Walsh:  A Borderlands Perspective.”  Fort Walsh National Historic Site - Fort Walsh, SK, May 14, 2002.

 

“The Restriction of Plains Cree Cross-Border Movement in the Montana-Canada Borderlands, 1876-1885.”  O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West, University of Montana – Missoula, MT, May 1, 2002.

 

Service

 

Mentor, Incoming Student Mentor Program, History Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006-07

Bradley Fellowship Committee, Montana Historical Society, 2002

M.A. Representative, Department of History, University of Calgary, 2001-02

           

 

Professional Organization Memberships

 

Organization of American Historians

Canadian Historical Association

Montana Historical Society

Western History Association

 

 

Pre-Doctoral Employment

 

Acquisitions & Marketing Assistant, The University of Wisconsin Press,  Madison, WI, 2007-08

 

Research Consultant, Litigation Management & Resolution Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, Vancouver, BC & Calgary, AB, 1996, 1997, 1998-2000

 

Freelance Researcher, Juan de Fuca Research Project, Department of Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, 1998