Brenda Child

612-625-0895

American Studies 209 Scott H

Department Affiliations

Ph.D.: History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, none.
M.A.: History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, none.
B.S. Ed.: History & Social Studies, Bemidji State University, Bemidji, MN, none.

Train Time, an excerpt from Boarding School Seasons. Child, Brenda J, 2001.
Away From Home: American Indian Boarding School Experiences, 1879-2000. Child, Brenda J, The Heard Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 2000.
Ojibwe Children and Boarding Schools, an excerpt from Boarding School Seasons. Child, Brenda J, 2001.
Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940.. Child, Brenda J, University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

Editorial Board, Ethnohistory: 2001
Member, Graduate Studies Committee, Program in American Studies, University of Minnesota: 1997 - 1999
Indigenous Language Initiative Program, Department of American Indian Studies and the Department of Maori Studies at the University of Auckland, New Zealand: 2003
Prize Committee, American Society for Ethnohistory: 2002
Prize Committee, American Society for Ethnohistory: 2000
Editorial Board, American Indian Education Series, University of Nebraska Press: 2000
Local Planning Committee Member, Keeping Our Faculties: Addressing the Recruitment and Retention of Faculty of Color, a conference at the University of Minnesota: 2002
Member, Admissions and Awards Committee, Department of American Studies, Univeristy of Minnesota: 2001 - 2002
Editorial Board, Native American Studies Series, Michigan State Univeristy Press: 1996
Editorial Board, American Indian Lives Series, The University of Nebraska Press: 1998
Member, American Studies Executive Committee, University of Minnesota: 1997 - 1998

Member, Native American Council, The Eiteljorg Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Executive Council, The Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN: 1998
Board of Directors, The Division of Indian Works, Minneapolis, MN: 1999
Board of Directors, The Circle, the newspaper of the American Indian community of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN: 1998

The North American Indian Prose Award for Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, 1998
Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program, 2000 - 2001
Minnesota Book Award Nominee for History for Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families, 1900-1940, 1999
The President's Muticultural Research Award, University of Minnesota, 2002
University of Minnesota Grant-in-Aid of Research, 1999 - 2000

Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.
Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.
November 17th, 2009
Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.
June 5th, 2009
Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.
June 5th, 2009