Lindsey Claire Smith
Professor
PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
BA, Hendrix College
Areas of Interest & Expertise
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American Indian Studies
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Global Indigenous Studies
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Racial Healing
Recent Courses Taught
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ENGL/AMST 4230: Water is Life: A Standing Rock Syllabus
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ENGL 3353: Native American Film
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ENGL 6250: Native American Literature and Gender
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ENGL 4330: Reimagining the West
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ENGL 3190: Pacific Indigenous Literatures
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ENGL/AMST 3813: Indigenous Hawaii
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ENGL 6250: Native American Literature and the Environment
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ENGL 4310 American Modernism(s)
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AMST 3813: Native American Oklahoma
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AMST 3550: Native American Studies and the Arts
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Teaching Urban Native American Literatures (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Selected Publications
Books and Edited Volumes:
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Editor, American Indian Quarterly
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Writing the Native City from Oklahoma. (in press; U of NE P, publication date: fall 2023).
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(with Paul Lai). Alternative Contact: Indigeneity, Globalism, and American Studies. Johns Hopkins UP, 2011.(co-edited essay collection; originally published as special issue of American Quarterly 62.3). Special Recognition, Constance M. Rourke Committee, American Studies Association, 2011.
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Indians, Environment, and Identity on the Borders of American Literature. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Articles and Book Chapters:
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“On Insurrections.” English Language Notes (solicited thought piece in progress for winter 2023).
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“How We Write About Tulsa.” Redreaming Dreamland (special issue commemorating the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial), World Literature Today 95.2 (2021): 72-6.
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"Talisi Through the Lens: Locating Native Tulsa in the Films of Sterlin Harjo." Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West. Ed. Heather Dorries, Robert Henry, David Hugill, Tyler McCreary, and Julie Tomiak. University of Manitoba Press, 2019. 251-70.
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(With Trever Holland). "'Beyond All Age': Indigenous Water Rights in Linda Hogan's Fiction." Studies in American Indian Literatures 28.2 (2016): 56-79.
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"The 'Whole Foods' Paradox: Food Sovereignty, Eco-Iconography, and Urban Indigenous Discourse." Elohi: Indigenous Environments 1.2 (2013): 59-78.
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"Indigenous Military Involvement in (De)Colonial Contexts." Critical Insights: War. Ed. Alex Vernon. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, (2012): 256-74.
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'With These Magic Weapons, Make a New World': Indigenous Centered Urbanism in Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen." Canadian Journal of Native Studies 29.1&2 (2009): 143-164.
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The New World and Apocalypto: Updates of Old Stereotypes for the New Millennia (Introduction)." With Judith Villa and Penelope Kelsey. Studies in the Humanities (special issue on American Indian Studies) 33.2 (2006): 128-39.
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Cross-Cultural Hybridity in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans." American Transcendental Quarterly 20.3 (2006): 527-52.
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Transcending the 'Tragic Mulatto': The Intersection of Black and Indian Heritages in Contemporary Literature." Ethnic Studies Review 26.1 (2003): 45-66.
Selected Conference Presentations
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“Revisiting Summer Camp in Indian Country: Recreational Sovereignty in the Cherokee Nation,” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting. Toronto, ON. May 2023.
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"Of Keystone, DAPL, and Diamond: Teaching About Standing Rock in Oil--and Indian--Country." Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, May 2018
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"Where it All Started: Jazz, History, and Futurity in the Writings of Joy Harjo." Native Crossroads Film Festival, Norman, OK, April 2018
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"Reclaiming Glacier National Park in Mourning Dove's Cogewea (1927)." Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, June 2017
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"'The City Different': Finding--and Resisting--Indigenous 'Authenticity' in the Joy Harjo's Santa Fe." Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, June 2015
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"'The Jokes Are on Us And/Or You': Comedy and Community of the 1491s." Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, May 2014
Awards and Recognition
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Faculty, Newberry Library Graduate Seminar, 2021
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University Award for Excellence in Advancement of the Land Grant Mission, OSU, 2019
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Visiting University Faculty, Yale National Initiative to strengthen teaching in public schools, 2019
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Community Engagement Award, College of Arts and Sciences, OSU, 2015
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Junior Faculty Award, College of Arts and Sciences, OSU, 2012
Grants & Research Trips
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Scholar Research Grant, Oklahoma Humanities Council, 2015
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College of Arts and Sciences Research Leave, Spring 2015 and 2021
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College of Arts and Sciences FY12 ASR + 1 Award
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College of Arts and Sciences Travel Award, 2007, 2009
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Dean's Incentive Grant, 2007, 2008
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Fae Rawdon Norris Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 2007
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Newberry Library, Chicago IL, 2007
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Sequoyah Fellowship for American Indian Studies, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005-2006.
Current Research
My new project is a memoir and study of summer camps in Indian country, uncovering the intersections of religion, sexuality, race, and environment in Oklahoma.