Professor Emeritus

Michael M. Smith

Vita

• Education

  • 1960 Springfield (Illinois) Junior College, A.A., Major: Liberal Arts

  • 1962 Universidad de Guanajuato (Mexico), N.D., Area Specialty:  Spanish

  • 1963 Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), B.A., Majors:  Spanish-English

  • 1964 Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois), N.D., Area Specialty:  Spanish

  • 1967 Southern Illinois University (Carbondale), M.A., Inter-American Studies

  • Thesis:  "José María Luis Mora:  Anticlerical Cleric" Director:  Robert L. Gold

  • 1971 Texas Christian University (Ft. Worth, Texas), Ph.D., Latin American History

  • Dissertation: "The Real Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna in New Spain and Guatemala, 1803-1806" Director:  Donald E. Worcester

• Teaching Experience

  • 2017-present Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Oklahoma State University

  • 1993-2017 Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University.  (See below for course taught).

  • 1978-1993 Associate Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University.  (See above for courses taught).

  • 1978 Acting Chairman, Department of History, Oklahoma State University.

  • 1976-1978 Associate Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University.  (See above for courses taught).

  • 1970-1976 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University.  Taught American History to 1865 and American History since 1865 (including Honors sections), American Tradition and Identity, Non-European World, Latin American Area Studies Colloquium, History of Mexico, Colonial Latin America, Modern Latin America, Seminar in Latin American History.

  • 1968-1969 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of History, Texas Christian University.  Taught United States History to 1865

  • 1967-1968 Graduate Teaching Fellow, Department of Foreign Languages. Texas Christian University. Taught Beginning Spanish I and II, Intermediate Spanish I and II

  • 1965-1967 Teaching Assistant, Department of Foreign Languages, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale).  Taught Beginning Spanish I and Beginning Spanish II

  • 1963-1965 Teacher, Elgin (Illinois) Public Schools.  Taught 7th and 8th Grade English, 9th-11th Grade Spanish

• Areas of Teaching Competence

  • History of Modern Mexico

  • The Mexican Revolution

  • Pre-Columbian Mexico

  • Colonial Latin America

  • Modern Latin America

  • Mexican-American History

  • Social and Cultural History of Latin America

  • United States-Mexican Diplomatic Relations

  • United States-Latin American Diplomatic Relations

  • History of Brazil

  • History of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile

  • History of Spain

  • American History Surveys

  • English as a Second Language

• Related Experience

  • 1987-1994 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History, Oklahoma State University

  • 1988-1997 Coordinator, Latin American Area Studies Program.

  • 1976-1980 Undergraduate Student Advisor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University

  • 1975-1979 Instructor, English Language Institute, Oklahoma State University

  • 1970-Present Committee Assignments (*indicates chairmanship)

    • Departmental Committees

      Graduate Studies Committee*

      Graduate Placement Committee*

      Personnel Committee*

      Advisory Council*

      Scholarship Committee*

      Curriculum Committee*

      Library Committee*

      Phi Alpha Theta Awards Committee

      Ad Hoc Committee on Recruiting

    • College Committees

      Arts and Sciences Honors Committee*

      Latin America Area Studies Committee*

      Scholastic Standards Council

      Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee

      Student Services Advisory Council*

      Living-Learning Committee

      Area Studies Steering Committee

      Sabbatical Leave Committee

      Reappointment, Promotion, and Tenure Committee

    • University Committees

      University Grievance Committee

      Faculty Council Termination Hearing Board

  • 1978 Principal Investigator, Presidential Challenge Grant to organize and direct "Living-Learning:  An Interdisciplinary Approach to General Education in a Residence Setting."

  •  1979-1980 Advisor, Greater Tulsa Area Hispanic Affairs Commission, Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • 1979-1982 Member, Board of Editors, Oklahoma State Historical Journal (Faculty Editor, 1982)

  • 1980 Consultant, "Hispanics in Oklahoma:  A Search for Identity," a project funded by the Oklahoma Humanities Committee and the National Endowment for the Arts.

     

  • 1983 Evaluator, MS entitled "Mexican Immigrants in Kansas, 1900 to World War II," for Western Historical Quarterly.

     

     

  • 1986 Reviewer of "Beyond the Borderlands:  The Spanish Presence on the Great Plains," a proposal submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

  • 1986 Evaluator, MS entitled "Oklahoma Tragedy," for Texas Western Press.

  • 1987 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, Trenton, New Jersey.

  • 1988 Reviewer of "The Hispanic Presence on the Great Plains," a proposal submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

  • 1989 Reviewer of "Three Families:  One America," a proposal submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

  • 1992 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1992 Consultant, Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities/National Endowment for the Humanities program, "Many People--One Land:  The Oklahoma Experience."

  • 1993 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1994 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San  Antonio, Texas.

  • 1994 Evaluator, MS entitled "Broken Promises:  Mexicans in the Midwest," for the University of Arizona Press.

  • 1995 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1996 Evaluator, MS entitled "The Mexican-American Community in Garden City, Kansas, 1900-1950," for Kansas History.

  • 1996 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1997 Table Leader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas

  • 1998 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San  Antonio, Texas.

  • 1999 Evaluator, MS entitled "La Voz de la Gente:  Chicano Activist Newspapers and Newsletters in the Kansas City Area, 1968-1989," for Kansas History.

  • 1999 Table Leader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 2000 Table Leader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 2001 Table Leader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 2002 Reader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 2002 Reviewer of “Documenting Mexican History,” a manuscript proposal submitted to Prentice Hall, Inc.

  • 2003 Table Leader, Advanced Placement Examinations (American History), Educational Testing Service, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 2006-07 Consultant and Scholar-in-Residence for the Tulsa Hispanic-American Foundation’s Oklahoma Centennial Program, !Latinos Presentes!

  • 2005-08 Consultant, Hispanic-American Foundation, Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • 2005-08 Consultant, Programa Nacional de Lectura / Bibliotecas Escolares y de Aula, Secretaría de Educación Pública, México, D.F., México.

  • 2008 Evaluator, book MS entitled “Mexican Thunder, The Early Revolution, 1910-1916: The View from El Paso, Texas,” for Texas Christian University Press.

  • 2008 Evaluator, book MS entitled “Power, Politics, and Intrigue: Political and Social Espionage in Mexico, 1920-1946,” for Texas Christian University Press.

  • 2009 Consultant, Consulado de Mexico, Little Rock, Arkansas, for activities relating to the Bicentennial of Mexican Independence (2010).

  • 2009 Evaluator, book MS (revised version) entitled “Mexican Thunder, The Early Revolution, 1910-1916: The View from El Paso, Texas,” for Texas Christian University Press.

  • 2009 Evaluator, article MS entitled “‘Other Irreparable Evils’: Smugglers, Tariffs, and the Moral Economy of Illicit Trade in Los dos Laredos, 1880-1900,” for the Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

  • 2020 Consultant, “Exploring Oklahoma’s Latino(a) History–A Traveling Exhibit, Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma  Historical Society

• Memberships

  • Phi Alpha Theta

  • Phi Beta Delta

  • Latin American Studies Association

  • Southwest Social Science Association

  • Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies

  • Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies

  • Association of Borderlands Scholars

  • Oklahoma Historical Society

  • Texas State Historical Society

• Professional Activities

  Papers presented at Professional Meetings

  • 1971 "The Organization and Formation of the Royal Maritime Vaccination Expedition."  Read before the Oklahoma Association of College History Professors, Oral Roberts University, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

  • 1973 "Mexican Machismo:  Essence, Facade, or Anachronism."  Read before the Oklahoma Academy of Science, Southwestern State University, Weatherford, Oklahoma.

  • 1976 "José María Luis Mora:  Liberal Historian."  Read before the Southwest Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas.

  • 1976 "Francisco Xavier de Balmis and the Spanish Royal Vaccination Expedition." Read before the History Medicine Society, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

  • 1978 "Celebration 1976:  An Interdisciplinary Approach to General Education in a Residence Setting."  Read before the Educational Improvement Institute, Western Hills State Lodge, Oklahoma.

  • 1979 "Mexican Labor in the Oklahoma Coal Mines, 1890-1950."  Read before the Mid-American Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri.

  • 1980 "Beyond the Borderlands:  A Spatial and Occupational Survey of Mexican Labor on the Great Plains, 1900-1940."  Read before the Western Historical Association, Kansas City, Missouri.

  • 1981 "The Oklahoma Mexicans."  Read before the Popular Culture Association, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 1981 "Establishment of the Order of Discalced Carmelites in Oklahoma, 1914-1929."  Read before the Southwest Cultural Heritage Festival, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 1982 "Refugees from Revolution:  Spanish Carmelites and Mexican Immigrants in Oklahoma, 1914-1929."  Read before the Southwestern Council on Latin American Studies, Abilene, Texas.

  • 1982 "Establishment of the Order of Discalced Carmelites in Oklahoma, 1914-1929."  Read before the Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1982 "El Cosmopolita:  Voice of a Community."  Read before the Southwest Cultural Heritage Festival. Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 1982 "El Cosmopolita:  Voice of a Community."  Read before the Western History Association, Phoenix, Arizona.

  • 1986 "Mexican Immigrants and Spanish Carmelites in Oklahoma."  Read before the American Society of Church History, Ft. Worth, Texas.

  • 1987 "Mexicans in Kansas City:  The First Generation, 1900-1920."  Read before the Ninth Mid America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri.

  • 1988 "Magnanimity or Manipulation? Anglo Involvement in the Kansas City Colonia during the Mexican Revolution." Paper read before the Tenth Mid America Conference on History, Lawrence, Kansas.

  • 1989 "Jack Danciger and the Kansas City Colonia during the Mexican Revolution."  Paper read before the Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

  • 1989 "The Mexican Immigrant Press Beyond the Borderlands:  The Case of El Cosmopolita, 1914-1919.  Paper read before the Center for Great Plains Symposium, "From Spanish Explorers to Plains Settlers:  The Hispanic Presence on the Great Plains," Lincoln, Nebraska.

  • 1990 "Social and Political Dynamics of the Kansas City Colonia During the Mexican Revolution:  The Role of the Unión Mexicana Benito Juárez and Middle Class Leadership," read before the VIII Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, San Diego, California.

  • 1991 "The Role of Middle Class Leadership in the Kansas City Colonia, 1914-1917," read before the Southwest Social Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1993 "Carrancista Propaganda and Espionage in the United States, 1913-1917," read before the Fifteenth Mid-America Conference on History, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 1994 "Carrancista Propaganda in the United States, 1913-1917: An Overview of Institutions," read before the Ninth Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Mexico City, Mexico.

  • 1996 "Actividades clandestinas en la frontera norte, 1910-1920," read before the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico.

  • 1996 "Clandestine Activities on the U.S.-Mexican Border: Jesús M. Arriola and the Reorganization of     the Mexican Secret Service in the United States, 1916-1917," read before the Eighteenth Mid-America Conference on History, Topeka, Kansas.

  • 1997 "Jesús M. Arriola y la reorganización del Servicio Secreto Político Mexicano en los Estados Unidos, 1916-1917," read before the VI Congreso Internacional de Historia Regional, Ciudad   Juárez, Chihuahua, México.

  • 1999 “Jesús M. Arriola: Agente secreto mexicano, 1911-1923,” read before the Congreso Internacional de las Americas, Cholula, Puebla, México.

  • 2000 “El Servicio Secreto Político Carrancista en los Estados Unidos, 1913-1920,” read before the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Puebla, Puebla, México.

  • 2001 “Mexican Propagandist: George F. Weeks and the  Constitutionalist Revolution, 1914-1920," read before the V Congreso de las Americas, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico

  • 2003 “Carranza’s Eyes, Ears, and Voice on the Border: Andrés G. García, Mexican Consul in El Paso, 1914-1920,” read before the Texas State Historical Association, El Paso, Texas.

  • 2005 “Andrés G. García: Los ojos y los oídos de Carranza en la frontera norte, 1914-1920,” read before the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico.

  • 2005 “General Rafael Benavides and the US-Mexican Border Crisis of 1877," read before the II Coloquio Internacional del Noreste de México y Texas,” San Antonio, Texas.

• Chair or Discussant at Professional Meetings

  • 1975 Discussant, "Modern Latin American History."  Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1978 Discussant, "Modern Latin American History."  Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1979 Chair, "Latin America in the Early National Period."  Southwest Social Science Association, Fort Worth, Texas.

  • 1980 Discussant, "Latin American History."  Southwest Social Science Association, Houston, Texas.

  • 1980 Panelist, "Immigrant Families--Growth and Transition in the 80's."  Family Study Center Conference, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 1981 Discussant, "Latin American History," Southwest Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas.

  • 1982 Discussant, "Latin American History," Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1983 Chair, "Latin America in the 20th Century," Southwest Social Science Association, Houston, Texas.

  • 1984 Discussant, "Latin American History," Southwest Social Science Association, Ft. Worth, Texas.

  • 1984 Chair, "Currents in Recent World History," Sixth Mid-America Conference in History, Lawrence, Kansas.

  • 1985 Chair, "Spanish Borderlands," Southwest Social Science Association, Houston, Texas.

  • 1986 Discussant, "Latin American History," Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1986 Chair, "Bearing the White Man's Burden," Eighth Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

  • 1987 Chair, "The U.S. Exercises its Power," Southwest Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas.

  • 1988 Chair/Discussant, "Mexico and Latin America."  Southwest Social Science Association, Houston, Texas.

  • 1990 Chair/Discussant, "Mexico, Spain, and the United States."  Southwest Social Science Association, Ft. Worth, Texas.

  • 1991 Chair/Discussant, "Latin American History."  Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1991 Discussant, "Mexico," Thirteenth Mid-American Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri.

  • 1992 Chair/Discussant, "History of Mexico."  Southwest Social Science Association, Austin, Texas.

  • 1992 Chair, "Military Irregulars in Nineteenth Century Latin American Wars." Southwest Social Science Association, Austin, Texas.

  • 1992 Discussant, "America's Home Front in the Second World War." Fourteenth Mid-America Conference on History, Lawrence, Kansas.

  • 1993 Discussant, "Native Resources and Spanish Expansion." Texas State Historical Association, Houston, Texas.

  • 1993 Discussant, "Latin American History," Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana.

  • 1994 Discussant, "Twentieth Century Mexico," Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Ft. Worth, Texas.

  • 1994 Discussant, "Spanish Colonial and Mexican History," Southwestern Social Sciences Association, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1995 Discussant, "One Land, Many Peoples," Symposium sponsored by the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities held at Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

  • 1995 Discussant, "Latin America/US America: Partners for the Twenty-First Century," Southwest Council on Latin American Studies, Fort Worth, Texas.

  • 1995 Discussant, "Spanish and French Colonialism and the Mexican Revolution," Southwestern Social Sciences Association, Dallas, Texas.

  • 1995 Chair, "The United States and the Third World," Seventeenth Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri.

  • 1997 Chair/Discussant, "Conflicts and Crises in Imperial Relations," Nineteenth Mid-America Conference on History, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 1998 Chair/Discussant, "Latin American Diplomatic History," Twentieth Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

  • 1999 Chair/Discussant, "Colonial Latin America," Southwestern Social Sciences Association, San Antonio, Texas.

  • 1999 Moderator, “Publishing: A Panel Discussion,” Twenty-First Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri.

  • 1999 Discussant, “Manuel Gamio, Migration Studies, and the Repatriation of Mexican Migrants,” X Conference of Mexican and North American Historians, Ft. Worth, Texas.

  • 2000 Discussant, “Aspects of US-Latin American Relations,” Twenty-Second Mid-America Conference on History, Lawrence, Kansas.

  • 2002 Chair/Discussant, “Historiografía,” Southwestern Council on Latin American Studies, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico.

  • 2003 Chair/Discussant, “Images of Race, Gender and Ethnicity in the Popular Media,” The International Colloquium for Vernacular, Hispanic, Historical, American and Folklore Studies, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico.

  • 2006 Discussant, “Comparative Slavery Systems in Colonial Texas and Colombia,” Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

  • 2007 Discussant, “Race, Ethnicity, and Immigrants in the Early Twentieth Century U.S.,” Twenty-Ninth Mid America Conference on History, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

  • 2008 Discussant, “Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth Century Mexico,” Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies, El Paso, Texas.

  • 2010 Chair/Discussant, “Regional Political Strife and Consolidation in Mexican History,” Southwestern Council of Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

  • 2010 Chair, “Migración en las Américas: Integrar, Seleccionar y Excluir,” XIII Reunión de Historiadores de México, Estados Unidos y Canadá, Querétaro, Querétaro, México.

  • 2011 Chair/Discussant, “Explorations in Mexican Culture, Education, and Conservation,” Thirty-Second Mid-America Conference on History, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 2013 Chair/Judge, “Confronting Ruling Regimes through Protests and Violence,” Oklahoma Association of Professional Historians and Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Stillwater, Oklahoma

• Seminar Participant

  • 1980 Reactor, "Hispanics in Oklahoma:  A Search for Identity," Tulsa, Oklahoma.

  • 1981 Reactor, "Hispanics in Oklahoma:  A Search for Identity," Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

  • 1982 Workshop Director, "Hispanic Salute to Oklahoma," Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

  • 1995 Participant, "National Endowment for the Humanities/Oklahoma State University Interdisciplinary Project," Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 2002 Director, “Mexican Culture: Building Bridges and Crossing Cultural Boundaries,” Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

• Conference Organizer

  • 1984-1985 Conference Organizer and Program Chairman of the Seventh Mid-America Conference on History; September 19-21, 1985; Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 1988-1989 Member of the Program and Local Arrangements Committees of the Eleventh Mid-America Conference on History; September 14-16, 1989; Stillwater, Oklahoma.

• Historic Preservation Survey

  • 1984-1985 A Study of Settlement Patterns in Oklahoma Region Six (Unassigned Lands)

  • 1985 A Study of Settlement Patterns in Oklahoma, Regions 1-5, 7

• Extension Activities

  Study-Tours Directed

  • 1976 "A Study-Tour of Ancient and Modern Mexico" (Mexico City)

  • 1977 "A Study-Tour of Ancient and Modern Mexico" (Mexico City and Acapulco)

  • 1978 "A Study-Tour of Ancient and Modern Mexico" (Mexico City and Acapulco)

  • 1979 "A Study-Tour of Ancient and Modern Mexico" (Mexico City and Puerto Vallarta)

  Courses Taught

  • 1976 "The Equality Revolution" (Fall--On Campus)

  • 1978 "Ancient Mexico:  Myth, Legend, and History" (Fall--On Campus)

  • 1979 "Ancient Mexico:  Myth, Legend, and History" (Spring--On Campus)

  • 1979 "Ancient Mexico:  Myth, Legend, and History" (Fall--On Campus)

  • 1979 "México Antiguo:  Mito, Leyenda e Historia" (Spring–On Campus--A course offered entirely in the Spanish Language)

  • 1980 "Ancient Mexico:  Myth, Legend, and History" (Spring--On Campus)

  • 1980 "Ancient Mexico:  Myth, Legend, and History" (Fall--On Campus)

  • 1981 "Ancient Mexico:  Myth, Legend, and History" (Spring--On Campus)

  • 1981 "Ancient Mexico:  Myth, Legend, and History" (Summer--On Campus)

  • 1981 "Ancient Mexico:  Myth, Legend, and History" (Fall--On Campus)

  • 1981 "Twentieth Century Latin America" (Summer--Vance AFB)

  • 1981 "Ethnic Experience in Oklahoma" (Fall--On Campus)

  • 1981 "Ethnic Experience in Oklahoma" (Summer--On Campus)

  • 1985 "Ancient Mexico," (Summer--On Campus, Elderhostel Program)

  • 1986 "American History, 1492-1877" (Spring Intersession–On Campus)

  • 1987 "American History, 1492-1877" (Spring Intersession–On Campus)

  • 1988 "American History, 1492-1877" (Spring Intersession–On Campus)

  • 1989 "American History, 1492-1877" (Spring Intersession–On Campus)

  • 1989 "Mexico and the United States:  Distant Neighbors."  OSU Elderhostel Program (Fall--On Campus)

  • 1990 "American History, 1492-1877" (Spring Intersession, On Campus)

  • 1993 "Ancient Mexico: Myth Legend and History."  OSU Elderhostel Program (Spring--On Campus)

  Speechs and Invited Lectures

  • 1971 "The Conquest of Mexico," AAUW, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1973 "Revolution in Latin America," AAUW, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1974 "Salvador Allende and Chile," AAUW, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1976 "Hernan Cortes and the Conquest of Mexico," Stillwater, Philatelic Society, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1977 "The Role of Academic Achievement in Fraternity Life," Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity Scholarship Banquet, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1979 "The United States and Latin America:  A Changing Relationship," Pan American Women's Club, Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • 1979 "Los Mexicanos en Oklahoma," Greater Tulsa Area Hispanic Affairs Commission, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

  • 1979 "Educational Opportunities for Hispanics in Oklahoma," Greater Tulsa Area Hispanic Affairs Commission, Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • 1980 "Los Mexicanos en Oklahoma," Pan American Day, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

  • 1980 "Los Mexicanos en Oklahoma," Fiesta Mexicana, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

  • 1980 "Los Mexicanos en Oklahoma," La Tardeada Mexicana, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

  • 1980 "La Experiencia Mexicana en Oklahoma," Programa de la Gente, Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • 1980 "Mexicans in Oklahoma," Lawton Public Library, Lawton, Oklahoma

  • 1980 "The Rise of the Ethnics," Museum of the Western Prairie, Altus, Oklahoma

  • 1980 "Mexican Immigration to Oklahoma," Phi Alpha Theta, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1982 "Hispanics in Oklahoma," Tinker AFB, Oklahoma

  • 1989 "Four Centuries of Hispanic Influence in Oklahoma," USDA Hispanic Month Celebration, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1989 "Role of the Roman Catholic Church in Colonial Latin America," United Methodist Church,  Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1991 "The Consequences of the Discovery on the History of the Americas," Day of the Americas Celebration, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 1992 "Hispanics in Oklahoma," Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City.

  • 1992 "Mexicans in Oklahoma," Pan American Round Table of Tulsa/Oklahoma Historical Society, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

  • 1994 "Hispanics in Oklahoma," USDA Fiesta/Hispanic Month Celebration, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 1995 "The Hispanic Experience in Oklahoma," Hispanic Student Association, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 1995 "Diferencias entre las Instituciones Coloniales de la América Española y las de la América Británica," Hispanic Student Association, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 2000 “Reflejos de una colonia mexicana más allá de la franja fronteriza: El Cosmopolita de Kansas City, 1914-1920.” an invited lecture presented at the  Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, México, D.F., México.

  • 2000 “Espionaje contra los exiliados, 1913-1920,” an invited lecture presented at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; México, D.F., México.

  • 2000 “Carranza’s Mexican Political Secret Service in the United States, 1913-1920,” presented before the Phi Alpha Theta Colloquium, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 2001 “The 2000 Presidential Elections in Mexico and the United States,” Owasso Public Schools, Owasso, Oklahoma. (March)

  • 2001 “The 2000 Presidential Elections in Mexico and the United States,” Owasso Public Schools, Owasso, Oklahoma. (April)

  • 2001 “The Mexican Secret Service in the United States, 1913-1920,” an invited lecture presented at the Oaxaca Summer Institute, Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México

  • 2002 “Beyond the Borderlands: Mexican Settlement on the Great Plains: The First Generation, 1900-1930,” a public lecture presented at Oklahoma City Community College, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

  • 2002 “Diplomacia en las sombras: El propaganda y el espionaje carrancista en los Estados Unidos,” an invited lecture presented at a colloquium entitled “La Revolución Mexicana desde la perspectiva del siglo XXI,” sponsored by the Government of the State of Coahuila, the Secretariat of Public Education of the State of Coahuila, and the Centro Cultural “Vito Alessio Robles” in Saltillo, Coahuila, México.

  • 2003 “El espionaje y propaganda mexicana,” an invited lecture presented to the staff of the Fiscalía Especial para Movimientos Sociales y Políticos del Pasado, Office of the Attorney General of the Republic of Mexico, México, D.F.

  • 2003 “Balmis en la Nueva España: Cuba, Guatemala y México,” an invited lecture presented at the “Simposio científico-histórico: Bicentenario de la Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna, Doscientos años de lucha contra la viruela,” sponsored by the government of Spain, the Spanish Science Research Council, the Spanish Society for Virology, the King Carlos III Institute of Health, and the Spanish Health Sciences Foundation, Madrid, Spain.

  • 2004 “Hispanics in Oklahoma,” an invited lecture presented before the Hispanic Student Association, Oklahoma State University; Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 2005 “The History of Hispanics in Oklahoma,” an invited lecture presented before the Hispanic American Foundation of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

  • 2006 “Latinos in Oklahoma,” an invited public “kick-off” lecture in connection with the !Latinos Presentes! Oklahoma Centennial Celebration Program; Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • 2006 “Hispanics in Oklahoma,” keynote address, IV Hispanic/Latino Community Leaders 2006 Summit, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

  • 2007 “!Latinos Presentes! Book and DVD presentation, Hispanic Resource Center of the Tulsa City-County Library, Martin Regional Library Branch, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

  • 2007 !Latinos Presentes!, Teachers” Brunch and Workshop, Tulsa and Union Public Schools, Tulsa City-County Library, Martin Regional Library Branch, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

  • 2007 “Immigration and the Latino Identity: A Response,” A program sponsored by the Hispanic Student Association, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  • 2011 “The Gaucho Legacy,” a public lecture in connection with the Wine Forum of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

  Radio and Television Interviews

  • 1975 "Slavery in the Ancient World and Latin America," Threshold, KOSU, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1976 "Social Revolution in Latin America," Threshold, KOSU, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1976 "The View from Oklahoma City," Threshold, KOSU, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1976 "Student Apathy and the Presidential Campaign," KOSU, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1980 "La Experiencia Mexicana en Oklahoma," El Show de José Méndez, KOCY, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

  • 1980 "Mexicans in Oklahoma," Oklahoma Diamond Jubilee, OETA, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

  • 1985 "The Harry S Truman Library," KVRO, Stillwater, Oklahoma (with Benedict Zobrist)

  • 2007 “!Latinos Presentes! An Oklahoma Centennial Hispanic Project,” Studio Tulsa, KWGS, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

• Research Interests

  • Mexicans in the Midwest and Great Plains areas

  • The Spanish Language Press in the United States

  • The Mexican Revolution-Propaganda and Espionage

  • Border Troubles: The United States and Mexico, 1877

• Graduate Work Supervised

  • 1975 Gene M. Kelly, "United States Congressional Opposition to the Panama Conference of 1824," M.A. thesis, Oklahoma State University

  • 1975 Sam A. Gray, Brazilian History (Report), M.A., Oklahoma State University

  • 1976 Margaret E. Brown, "Politicization of the Colonial Brazilian Military Classes," M.A. thesis, Oklahoma State University

  • 1976 Gerald F. Duerr, "Summer Welles, Commissioner to the Dominican Republic," M.A. thesis, Oklahoma State University

  • 1976 Enrique Ramírez, "The United States and the Independence of Puerto Rico, 1808-1830," M.A. thesis, Oklahoma State University

  • 1979 Janet Catt, "Mexican Cochineal in European Commerce," M.A. thesis, Oklahoma State University

  • 1979 Enrique Ramírez, "The United States, the European Powers, and the Status Quo in the Caribbean, 1810-1830," Ph.D. dissertation, Oklahoma State University

  • 1993 Sandra K. Unruh, "Francis Clement Kelly and the Mexican Revolution," M.A. thesis, Oklahoma State University

  • 2007 Natalie Panther, “Violence Against Women and Femicide in Mexico: The Case of Ciudad Juárez,” M.A. thesis, Oklahoma State University.

• Publications

  Books

  • 1974 Smith, Michael M., The "Real Expedición Marítima de la Vacuna" in New Spain and Guatemala, Philadelphia:  The American Philosophical Society.

  • 1980 Smith, Michael M., The Mexicans in Oklahoma, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

  • 1981 Smith, Michael M., The Mexican Experience in Oklahoma, Stillwater:  Oklahoma State University Press (written for the Crossroads Oklahoma Project, a project funded by the Ethnic Programs of the U. S. Department of Education).

  Articles

  • 1981 Smith, Michael M., "Beyond the Borderlands:  Mexican Labor in the Central Plains, 1900-1930," in Great Plains Quarterly, I:4, pp. 239-251.

  • 1989 Smith, Michael M., "Mexicans in Kansas City:  The First Generation, 1900-1920," in Perspectives in Mexican American Studies, 2 (1989), pp. 29-57.

  • 1990 Smith, Michael M., "The Mexican Press Beyond the Borderlands:  The Case of El Cosmopolita, 1914-1919," in Great Plains Quarterly, X:2, pp. 71- 85.

  • 1991 Smith Michael M., "The Mexican Revolution in Kansas City:  Jack Danciger vs.the Colonia Elite," in  Kansas History 14:3 (Autumn 1991):  206-218.

  • 1992 Smith, Michael M., "Social and Political Dynamics of the Kansas City Colonia During the Mexican Revolution: The Role of the Unión Mexicana  Benito Juárez and Middle Class Leadership," in  Virginia Guedea and Jaime E. Rodríguez O., eds., in Five Centuries of Mexican History/Cinco siglos en la historia de México (Mexico and Irvine: Instituto Mora and the University of California,  1992.)

  • 1995 Smith, Michael M., "Carrancista Propaganda and the Print Media in the United States:  An Overview of Institutions," in The Americas 52:2 (October 1995):  155-174.

  • 2001 Smith, Michael M. and Jorge Durand, “‘El Cosmopolita’ de Kansas City: Un periódico para mexicanos,” in Frontera Norte 13:26 (Julio-Diciembre 2001): 7-30.

  • 2002 Smith, Michael M., “The Mexican Secret Service in the United States, 1910-1920,” in The Americas 59:1 (July 2002): 65-85.

  • 2003 Smith, Michael M.  “Diplomacia en las sombras: agentes secretos carrancistas,” in Provincias Internas, II:7/8 (Otoño e Invierno 2002-2003): 73-92.

  • 2003 Smith, Michael M., “Gringo Propagandist: George F. Weeks and the Mexican Revolution,” Journalism History 29:1 (Spring 2003): 2-11.

  • 2007 Smith, Michael M., “Andrés G. García: Venustiano Carranza’s Eyes, Ears, and Voice on the Border,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 23:2 (Summer 2007): 355-386.

  • 2008 Smith, Michael M., “Comisionado en la Frontera del Norte: El Informe del General Rafael Benavides, 1877,” Provincias Internas, Año V, Segunda Epoca, Núm. 4 (2008), 63-132.

  • 2009 Smith, Michael M., “General Rafael Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Border Crisis of 1877,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, CXII:3 (January 2009):235-260.

  • 2009 Smith, Michael M., “Latinos in Oklahoma: A History of 450 Years,” in The Chronicles of Oklahoma, LXXXVII:2 (Summer 2009):186-223.

  • 2017 Smith, Michael M. “El Servicio Secreto Mexicano en Estados Unidos, 1910-1920,” Revista Mexicana de Cultura Política NA, 3:10 (Primer semestre de 2017), 11-42.

  Chapters, Monographs, etc.

  • 1973 "Ruy Barbosa" in Encyclopedia of World Biography (New York:  McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973), Vol. I, pp. 440-441.

  • 1973 "Diogo Antonio Feijo" in Encyclopedia of World Biography (New York:  McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973), Vol. IV, pp. 74-75.

  • 1973 "Deodoro da Fonseca," in Encyclopedia of World Biography, (New York:  McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973), Vol. III, pp. 344-345.

  • 1973 "Joaquim Nabuco" in Encyclopedia of World Biography (New York:  McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973), Vol. VIII, pp. 48-49.

  • 1973 "Pedro II" in Encyclopedia of World Biography (New York:  McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973), Vol. III, pp. 343-344.

  • 1973 "Floriano Peixoto" in Encyclopedia of World Biography (New York:  McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1973), Vol. IX, pp. 203-204.

  • 1982 Smith, Michael M., "Mission to the Immigrants: Establishment of the Order of Discalced Carmelites in Oklahoma, 1914-1929," (pp. 1-11) Southwest Cultural Heritage Festival 1981, edited by W. David Baird, Donald N. Brown, and William H. Pixton, Stillwater: Oklahoma State University Press. 1992 Smith, Michael M., "Hispanics in Oklahoma," Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities.

  • 1994 Smith, Michael M. "Mexican Labor in Oklahoma," (pp. 168-173), People of Color in the American West, edited by Sucheng Chan, et al., Lexington and Toronto:  D. C. Heath and Company, 1994.

  • 2004 Smith, Michael M. “Balmis en la Nueva España: Cuba, Guatemala y México,” (pp. 121-146), edited by Susana Ramírez, et al.,La Real Expedición Filantrópica de la Vacuna: Doscientos años de lucha contra la viruela, Madrid:  Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas.

  • 2007 Smith, Michael M. “Hispanics in Oklahoma,” Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma State Historical Society, available on-line (accessed March 28, 2007).

  • 2007 Smith, Michael M. “Mexicans in Oklahoma,”Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma State Historical Society, available on-line (accessed March 28, 2007).

  • 2007 Smith, Michael M. “Latinos in Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries,” (pp. 1-16), !Latinos Presentes! : Oklahoma Centennial Hispanic Project, Tulsa: Private printing, 2007).

  • 2009 Smith, Michael M. “Hispanics,”Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009), Vol. I, pp. 689-690.

  • 2009 Smith, Michael M. “Mexicans,” Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009), Vol. II, pp. 941-942.

  Reports

  • 1984 Smith, Michael M., Resource Protection Planning Project, Settlement Patterns in the Unassigned Lands, Region Six.  Stillwater, Oklahoma State University. (75 pp.)

  • 1986 Smith, Michael M., Resource Protection Planning Project, Patterns of White Settlement in Oklahoma, 1889-1907, Region One.  Stillwater, Oklahoma State University. (25 pp.)

  • 1986 Smith, Michael M., Resource Protection Planning Project, Patterns of White Settlement in Oklahoma, 1889-1907, Region Two.  Stillwater, Oklahoma State University. (31 pp.)

  • 1986 Smith, Michael M., Resource Protection Planning Project, Patterns of White Settlement in Oklahoma, 1889-1907, Region Three.  Stillwater, Oklahoma State University. (33 pp.)

  • 1986 Smith, Michael M., Resource Protection Planning Project, Patterns of White Settlement in Oklahoma, 1889-1907, Region Four.  Stillwater, Oklahoma State University. (29 pp.)

  • 1986 Smith, Michael M., Resource Protection Planning Project, Patterns of White Settlement in Oklahoma, 1889-1907, Region Five.  Stillwater, Oklahoma State University. (30 pp.)

  • 1986 Smith, Michael M., Resource Protection Planning Project, Patterns of White Settlement in Oklahoma, 1889-1907, Region Seven.  Stillwater, Oklahoma State University. (41 pp.)

  DVDs, Films and Videos

  • 2007 “!Latinos Presentes! Oklahoma Centennial Hispanic Project.”  DVD

  • 2016“Here for Good/Aquí por el bien: The Latino Experience in Oklahoma,” Filoteo Gómez Martínez and Mark Griffin, 2016

  Book Reviews

  • Wright, J. Leitch, Jr., Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in North America, Great Plains Journal, 12:79.

  • David, Jay (ed.), The American Indian, the First Victim, Great Plains Journal , 12:84.

  • Lewis, Willie Newbury, Tapadero, The Making of a Cowboy, Great Plains Journal, 12:90.

  • Robinson, Jacob S., A Journal of the Santa Fe Expedition under Colonel Doniphan, Great Plains Journal, 12:96.

  • Folkman, David I., The Nicaragua Route, Chronicles of Oklahoma, 51(4): 495-496.

  • Hoffman, Abraham, Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression Repatriation Pressures, 1929-1939, Journal of the West,12(4): 142.

  • Cole, Martin and Henry Welcome (eds.), Don Pio Pico's Historical Narrative, Journal of the West, 12(2): 120.

  • Steele, Thomas J., Santos and Saints, Journal of the West, 14(2): 154.

  • Liss, Peggy K., Mexico Under Spain, 1521-1556, Journal of the West,16(3): 94.

  • Farber, Samuel, Revolution and Reaction in Cuba, 1933-1960, Red River Valley Historical Journal of World History, 2(3):  295-296.

  • Steffen, Jerome O.  William Clark:  Jeffersonian Man on the Frontier, Journal of the West, 17(1):  103.

  • Bennett, Wendell C. and Robert M. Zingg, The Tarahumara, Chronicles of Oklahoma, 51(2):  228.

  • Wirth, John D., Minas Gerais in the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1937,Social Science Quarterly, 59(3):  597-598.

  • Werlich, David P., Peru:  A Short History, Red River Valley Historical Journal of World History, 3(1):  84-85.

  • Barker, Nancy N., The French Experience in Mexico, 1821-1861, Red River Valley Historical Journal of World History, 4(4):  407-408.

  • Chance, John C., Race and Class in Colonial Oaxaca, The Historian, 42(2):  361-363.

  • Sherman, William L., Forced Native Labor in Sixteenth-Century Central America, Social Science Quarterly, 62(1):  184-185.

  • Konrad, Herman W., A Jesuit Hacienda in Colonial Mexico:  Santa Lucia, 1576-1767, The Historian, 44(3):  427.

  • Berry, Charles R., The Reform in Oaxaca, 1856-1876:  A Micro History of the Liberal Revolution, The Historian.

  • Hall, Linda B., Alvaro Obregón: Power and Revolution in Mexico, 1911-1920, Red River Valley Historical Journal of World History.

  • Hart, John M., Revolutionary Mexico: The Coming and Process of the Mexican Revolution, Social Science Quarterly, 70:2 (June 1989):  523-527.

  • Griswold del Castillo, Richard, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Legacy of Conflict, Social Science Quarterly, 73:3 (September 1991):  629-630.

  • Limerick, Patricia N. et al., Trails Toward a New Western History, Kansas History, 15:3 (Autumn 1992): 211-212.

  • Gómez-Quiñones, Juan, Roots of Chicano Politics, 1600-1940, The Californians.

  • Clayton, Lawrence A. and Michael L. Conniff, A History of Modern Latin America, The Red River Valley Historical Journal, I (September, 2000): 108-109.

• Awards, Grants and Honors

  • 1959 Chosen for membership in Phi Theta Kappa.

  • 1962 Chosen for membership in Kappa Delta Pi.

  • 1960-1963 Recipient of Illinois State Teachers Scholarship.

  • 1964 Selected to participate in an NDEA Foreign Language Institute (Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois).

  • 1966 Graduate School Scholar, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)

  • 1967 Graduate School Scholar, Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)

  • 1969-1970 Graduate School Fellow, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas

  • 1969-1970 Abraham Lincoln Fellow, Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, México

  • 1979 Certificate of Recognition, City of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma

  • 1979 Certificate of Recognition, YMCA, Stillwater, Oklahoma

  • 1991 Grant from the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities ($500) and the College of Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma State University ($2390) to conduct research in Mexico on "Selling the Revolution:  Mexican Propaganda in the United States, 1910-1917."

  • 1993 Grant from the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities ($500) and the College of Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma State University ($2500) to conduct research in Mexico on "Propaganda, Espionage, and the Mexican Revolution."

  • 1996 Grant from the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities ($500) and the College of Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma State University ($2500) to conduct research in Mexico on "Clandestine Activities on the US-Mexican Border, 1910-1920."

  • 1996 College of Arts and Sciences (OSU) Summer Research Award for research in Mexico.

  • 1998 Grant from the Oklahoma Foundation for the Humanities ($500) and the College of Arts and                Sciences of Oklahoma State University ($2500) to conduct research in Mexican archives.

  • 2000 Grant from the Oklahoma Humanities Council ($500) and the College of Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma State University ($2500) to conduct research in Mexican archives.

  • 2001 National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar-in-Residence,

  • 2001 Nominated for “Premio Eugenio Garza Sada 2001" (México)

  • 2003 Arts and Sciences Research Travel Grant ($500).

  • 2004 Chosen for membership in Phi Beta Delta.

  • 2007 Grant from the Oklahoma Humanities Council ($500) and the College of Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma State University ($2000) to conduct research in Mexican archives.

  • 2007 Certificate of Appreciation, Non-Traditional Student Organization, Oklahoma State University.

  • 2010 Nominated for Arts and Sciences Student Council Outstanding Professor Award

  • Joseph, Gilbert, et al., Fragments of a Golden Age: The Politics of Culture in Mexico Since 1940, New Mexico Historical Review (Summer 2004): 419-420.

  • Gonzales, Michael J., The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940, Journal of San Diego History, 50:1-2 (Winter/Spring 2003-4)

  • Hart, John M., The Silver of the Sierra Madre, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, CXIII:3 (January 2010):416-418.

  • Johnson, Benjamin H. and Andrew R. Graybill, eds., Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, CXIV:4 (April 2011): 464-465.

  • De Leon, Arnoldo, ed., War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, CXVI:4 (April 2013):418-419.

  • Fallaw, Ben and Terry Rugeley, eds., Forced Marches: Soldiers and Military Caciques in Modern Mexico, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, CXVII:2 (October 2013):234-235.

  • Richmond, Douglas W. and Sam W. Haynes, eds., The Mexican Revolution: Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-  1940, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Forthcoming.