Previous Athearn Lectures

LectureLecturerAffiliationTitle of Lecture
32ndDr. Geraldo L. CadavaNorthwestern University

鈥淭he Hispanic Republican: Unpacking Latino Conservation鈥澨 (View Event Poster)

31stDr. Claudio SauntUniversity of Georgia

"Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory"听 (View Event Poster)

30thDr.听Andr茅s Res茅ndezUniversity of California, Davis

"The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Slavery in America" (View Event Poster)

29thDr. Kelly Lytle HernandezUniversity of California, Los Angeles

"City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles" (View Event Poster)

28thDr. Charles F. WilkinsonUniversity of baby直播app School of Law

鈥淲riting a Tribal History: My Long and Rewarding Journey with the Siletz Tribe of Western Oregon鈥 (View Event Poster)

27thDr. David IglerUniversity of California, Irvine

"Imagining a Different Pacific Ocean: Indigenous and European Representations in the Early 19th Century" (View Event Poster)

26thDr. Kate BrownUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore County"We Are All Citizens of Plutopia: The Militarization of American and Soviet Landscapes"
25thDr. Philip J. DeloriaUniversity of Michigan"Toward an American Indian Abstract: What an Unknown Artist Might Tell Us about Celebrity, the 1930s, Anthropology, Politics, Modernism, and a Few Other Things Besides鈥"
24thDr. Louis S. WarrenUniversity of California, Davis"The Rising of God's Red Son: The 1890 Ghost Dance Gospels and the Crisis of the Arid West"
23rdMae M. NgaiColumbia University

"The True Story of Ah Jake: Language and Justice in Nineteenth-Century California"

22ndWilliam F. DeverellUniversity of Southern California"To Bind Up the Nation's Wounds:" The American West After the Civil War
21stChar MillerPomona College"Streetscape Environmentalism: Flood Control, Social Justice, and Political Power in San Antonio, 1921鈥1978"
20thRam贸n A. Guti茅rrezUniversity of Chicago"The Religious Thought of Reies L贸pez Tijerina and the Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement"
19thJohn R. WunderUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln"Challenges to History and the Murder of Brandon Teena."
18thJames BrooksSchool of American Research"Friction: Conflict & Creativity in Our American Southwest"
17thVirginia ScharffUniv. of New Mexico"The West As Home"
16thAlan TaylorUniv. of California, Davis"Thomas Jefferson's Pacific: Making a Global West, 1763鈥1815"
15thDavid GutierrezUniv. of California, San Diego"Latinization of the West: Migration, Demographic Change, and the Future of Regional History."
14thRaymond DeMallieUniversity of Indiana"On Writing Lakota History"
(In honor of Vine Deloria's retirement)
13thKatherine MorrisseyUniv. of Arizona"Mining Stories: Environmental Conflicts in the 20th Century Rocky Mountain West."
12thAlan B茅rub茅听Author:
Coming Out Under Fire
"'No Race Baiting, Red鈥揃aiting, or Queer Baiting!!' The Marine Cooks & Stewards Union from the Depression to the Cold War"
11thDuane A. SmithFt. Lewis College"A Tale of Two Towns: A Mining and Farming Community in the 1890's"
10thPeggy PascoeUniv. of Utah"'I belong to the white race I suppose:' Miscegenation Law, Appeals Court, and the Classification of 'Races' in the American West"
9thQuintard Taylor, Jr.Univ. of Oregon"From 'Freedom Now' to 'Black Power:' The Civil Rights Movement in Seattle, 1960鈥1970"
8thDonald E. WorsterUniv. of Kansas"The Black Hills: Sacred or Profane?"
7thDavid Brion DavisYale University"Exodus, Colonization and Promised Lands"
6thJohn Mack FaragherMt. Holyoke College"The Custom of the Country: Indian-White Marriages in the Trans-Mississippi"
5thGordon HirabayashiUniv. of Alberta"Citizen or Non-Alien: An American Minority & the Constitution"
4thHoward LamarYale University"The West and Frontier Violence: An Enduring Debate"
3rdJohn W. ShyUniv. of Michigan"The Question of Violence in the American Revolution"
2ndWilliam Elliot WestUniv. of Arkansas"Growing Up Western: Childhood on the Frontier"
1stGale McGeeFormer Senator, Wyoming"The New Politics of the Old West: Wyoming 1950鈥1960