Dr. David J. Wishart

Chair, Department of Anthropology and Geography

Professor, Department of Anthropology and Geograpy

Ph.D. University of Nebraska (1971)

Email: egp@unl.edu

Office: 810C Oldfather Hall
Phone: 402.472.3576
Fax: 402.472.9642

Research Interests

Historical geography, dispossession of indigenous peoples and claims, Great Plains, geographical and historical epistemology

Courses Taught

GEOG 140. Introductory Human Geography
GEOG 334. Historical Geography of the Great Plains
GEOG 372. European Landscapes and Cultures
GEOG 903. History and Philosophy of Geography
GEOG 931. Comparative Studies of the Dispossession of Indigenous Peoples
GEOG 935. Historical Geography of the Great Plains

Education

Ph.D. - University of Nebraska - Lincoln
M.A. - University of Nebraska - Lincoln
B.A. - Sheffield

Teaching Experience

Chair, Department of Anthropology-Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2002-2008
Visiting Lecturer, University of Waikato, New Zealand, Sept./Oct. 1996
Professor, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1986-
Foreign Expert, Guangzhou English Language Center, Zhongshan University, China P.R., 1986-1987
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1978-1986
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1974-1978
Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of Arizona, Summer 1973
Assistant Professor and Deputy Head, Department of Geography, Beloit College, 1972-1974
Temporary Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Arizona, 1971-1972

Honors

University of Nebraska Distinguished Teaching Award, 1978

J.B. Jackson Prize 1995, for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians (also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize).

Encyclopedia of the Great Plains

• Best Reference Source, Library Journal, 2004
• Outstanding Reference Source, American Library Association, 2005
• Editors' Choice, Booklist, 2004
• Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine, 2005

Chencellor's Distinguished Lecture, University of Nebraska, 2004

Research Grants and Awards

Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1970-71, $5,000.
Junior Research Fellowship, University of Nebraska, Summer 1976, $1,200.
Research Council Fellowship, University of Nebraska, Fall 1978, Sabbatical.
Senior Research Fellowship, University of Nebraska, Summer 1979, $2,200.
Paul Dennis Fellowship, Summer 1983, $4,914.
Nebraska Committee for the Humanities, Summer Fellowship 1984, $2,500.
Research Council Summer Fellowship, University of Nebraska, 1990, $5,000.
American Philosophical Society Grant-in-Aid, 1990, $2,000.
Center for Great Plains Studies, Summer Fellowship, 1990, $5,000.
American Council for Learned Societies Grant-in-Aid, 1990, $3,000.
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1990-93, $85,000 (with Jeanne Kay).
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-98, $240,000 (with John R. Wunder).
Nebraska Humanities Council, 1998-99, $11,000.
National Endowment for the Humanities, 1999-2001, $138,000 (with John R. Wunder)
Nebraska State Historical Society Research Grant, 2000, $1,000
National Endowment for the Humanities, 2002, $8,100
Canadian Embassy Grant, 2002, $2,300
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003, $24,000

Books

2007. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians (University of Nebraska Press, 2007)

2004. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

1994. An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1994).

1989. Human Geography: People, Places, and Cultures. Co-authored with Brian W. Blouet and Robert H. Stoddard, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1986), 400 pp. Second Edition (Prentice Hall, 1989).

1979. The Fur Trade of the American West, 1807-1840. (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, (1979), 237 pp. Reprinted at Bison Book (University of Nebraska Press, 1992).

Articles

1969. "The Changing Position of the Frontier of Settlement on the Eastern Margins of the Central and Northern Great Plains, 1854-1920," Professional Geographer 21(1969), pp. 153-57.

1973. With R. H. Stoddard and A. Warren, "An Attempted Definition of the Frontier Using a Wave Analogy," Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal 6 (1973), pp. 73-81.

1973. "Agriculture at the Trading Posts on the Upper Missouri Prior to 1843," Agricultural History 37 (1973), pp. 57-62.

1973. "The Age and Sex Composition of the Population on the Frontier in Nebraska, 1860-1880," Nebraska History 54 (1973), pp. 107-19.

1974. "The Forbidden Crop: The Geography of the Opium Poppy," Journal of Geography 73 (1974), pp. 14-25.

1974. "Images of the Northern Great Plains from the Fur Trade, 1807-1843," in B. W. Blouet and M. P. Lawson (eds.) Image of the Plains (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1974), pp. 45-55.

1976. "Cultures in Co-operation and Conflict: Indians in the Fur Trade on the Northern Great Plains, 1807-1840," Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 2 (1976), pp. 311-28.

1977. "The Fur Trade of the West, 1807-1840: A Geographic Synthesis," in D. H. Miller and J. D. Steffen (eds.) The Frontier: Comparative Studies (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977), pp. 161-200.

1979. "The Dispossession of the Pawnee," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 69 (1979), pp. 382-401.

1982. "Education, Geography, and Indian Assimilation," Journal of Geography 81 (Nov.-Dec. 1982), pp. 204-9.

1984. "The Pawnee," in The First Voices, NEBRASKALand Magazine, no. 62, no. I (Jan.-Feb. 1984), pp. 10-15.

1984. "J'll etait une fois les trappeurs," L'histoire 72 (Nov. 1984), pp. 40-46.

1986. "The Pawnee Claims Case, 1947-64," in Imre Sutton (ed.) Irredeemable America: The Indians' Estate and Land Claims (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), pp. 157-86.

1987. "Settling the Great Plains, 1854-1930," in Robert D. Mitchell and Paul A. Groves (eds.) North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent (Rowman and Allanhead, 1987), pp. 255-78.

1990. "Compensation for Dispossession: Payments to the Indians for Their Lands on the Northern Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century," National Geographic Research, Vol. 6 (Winter 1990), pp. 94-109.

1990. "Buying Nebraska from the Indians," NEBRASKALand Magazine, vol. 68, no. 2 (March 1990), pp. 14-19.

1995. "The Roles and Status of Men and Women in Nineteenth Century Omaha and Pawnee Societies: Postmodernist Uncertainties and Empirical Evidence," in The American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 19, no. 4 (Fall 1995), pp. 509-18.

1996. "Hiram Martin Chittenden," in C. Phillips and A. Axelrod (eds.) Encyclopedia of the American West (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1996), Vol. I, pp. 313-14.

1996. "Land Ownership, Population, and Jurisdiction: The Case of the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe v. North Dakota Public Service Commission," (with Oliver Froehiing), American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 20, no. 2 (1996), pp. 33-58.

1996. "Indian Dispossession and Land Claims: The Issue of Fairness," in Klaus Frantz (ed.), Human Geography in North America, (Innsbruck 1996), pp. 181-94.

1997. "The Selectivity of Historical Representation," Journal of Historical Geography, 23, 2 (1997), pp. Ill-18.

1999. "The Death of Edward McMurty," Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. I (Winter 1999), pp. 5-22.

1999."William Henry Ashley" and "Pierre Chouteau Jr., " in John A Garraty and Mark C. Games (eds.), American National Biography. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), pp. 682-4, 842-3.

2001. "Belated Justice? The Indian Claims Commission and the Waitangi Tribunal," American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Winter 2001).

2001. "The Redemption of James Whitewater," Nebraska History, Vol. 82, No. 4. (Winter 2001)

2002. "Indians and Anthropologists" (review essay), Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 22, pp. 217-20.

2004. "Period and Religion," Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 28, pp. 305-19.

2006. "Natural Areas, Regions, and Two Centuries of Environmental Change on the Great Plains," Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 26, pp. 147-66.

2007. "True West: Cycles of Violence" (review essay), Times Literary Supplement, May 25, 2007, p. 10.

Book Reviews

In the Journal of Historical Geography, Professional Geographer, Historical Geography Newsletter, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Nebraska History, Geographic Review, Great Plains Quarterly, American Historical Review, Pacific Historical Review, Plains Anthropologists' American Indian Quarterly, Great Plains Research, and Journal of the West.

Administrative and Committee Assignments

Advisor, Transfer of Foreign Student Credits, 1974-
Chief Advisor, Undergraduate Geography Major, 1974-
Secretary of College of Arts and Sciences, 1977-1978
Member, Publications Committee, Center for Great Plains Studies, 1988-92
Faculty of University Studies, 1980-
Associate Editor, Great Plains Quarterly, 1982-
Chair, Graduate Committee, Department of Geography, 1985-1986
Book Review Editor, Journal of Historical Geography, 1988-1994
Board of Governors, Center for Great Plains Studies, 1989-92
Chief Advisor, Environmental Studies Major, 1990-94
Faculty of Human Rights and Cultural Diversity, 1998-
Vice-Chair, Department of Geography, 1998-2000
Chair, Department of Anthropology and Geography, 2002-08

Other Professional Activities

Consultant, The Platte River Road (Nebraska Educational T.V., 1991)
Consultant, The Oregon Trail (Nebraska Educational T.V., 1991-2)
Expert Witness, Devils Lake Sioux v. North Dakota Public Service Commission, et al., U.S. District Court, North Dakota, 1992.
Consultant, History of Nebraska (Nebraska Educational T.V., 1996-7)
Consultant, Standing Bear (Nebraska Educational T.V. 2006-07)
Member, Board of Trustees, Nebraska State Historical Society, 2007-09