Dr. Eric V. Meeks
Associate Professor
and History Department Chair
(BA, Arizona State University, MA, PhD University of Texas at Austin, 2001)
U.S.-Mexican Borderlands,
Chicana/o, Race and Ethnicity, United States
Email: Eric.Meeks@nau.edu
Office Phone: 928-523-8428
Office 213B
The Comparative Border Studies Spring 2013 Colloquia in ASU's Week in Pictures
Research and teaching interests
Most
of my research and teaching focuses on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, race and
ethnicity in North America, Chicana/o history, and indigenous history. My first book, Border Citizens: The Making
of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona (2007) examines how
ethno-racial classifications and identities crystallized among the diverse
indigenous, mestizo, and European-descended residents of Arizona’s borderlands as the
region was politically and economically incorporated into the United States between
1880 and 1980. I am currently working on a synthesis of two centuries of
U.S.-Mexican borderlands history, beginning with the War for Mexican
Independence in the early nineteenth century and focusing on identity, power,
and state-formation in what would become northern Mexico and the southwestern
United States.
Courses
Undergraduate courses
HIS
200: Introduction to History
HIS 291: U.S. History to 1865
HIS 292: U.S. History since 1865
HIS 381: The U.S.-Mexican Borderlands
HIS 396: Chicana/o History
HIS 496: Race and Ethnicity in the United States
HIS 498c: Senior Capstone Course: Research on the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands
Graduate courses
HIS
505: Readings on Indigenous History in North America
HIS 565: Readings on Race and Ethnicity in the United States
HIS 565: Readings on Race, Nation, and Citizenship in the U.S. and the World
HIS 592: Readings on the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands
HIS 692: Research on the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands
Select publications
Books
Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in
Arizona (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007)
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/meebor.html
Journal articles
“Protecting
the White Citizen Worker: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in South-Central
Arizona, 1929-1945,” Journal of the Southwest 48, 1 (spring 2006):
91-113.
“The
Tohono O’odham, Wage Labor, and Resistant Adaptation, 1900-1930,” Western
Historical Quarterly 34, 4 (winter 2003): 468-489.
“Cross-Ethnic
Political Mobilization and Yaqui Identity Formation in Guadalupe, Arizona,” Reflexiones:
New Directions in Mexican American Studies, 1997, ed. Neil Foley (Austin,
Texas: University of Texas Press, 1998): 77-108.
Book reviews
Book
reviews in the Journal of American History, the American Historical Review, the Pacific Historical Quarterly, the Journal of Contemporary History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, the Western Historical Quarterly,
Labor: Studies of Working-class History in the Americas, Ethnohistory, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of
Inter-American Cultural History, and the Journal of Arizona History.
Awards
Research
Award for Border Citizens as the Most Significant Scholarly Work by a
faculty member at Northern Arizona University, 2010
Southwest
Book Award for Border Citizens, 2009, awarded by the Border Regional Libraries
Association
Finalist
for the Public History Award for Border Citizens, from the National
Council on Public History, 2008
Clements
Research Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America, Clements Center for
Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, fall 2005
Bolton-Kinnaird
Award for the best article published in 2003 on the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands,
awarded by the Western History Association, fall 2004
Oscar
O. Winther Award for the best article appearing in the Western Historical
Quarterly in 2003, awarded by the Board of Editors of the WHQ, fall 2004
Intramural
Research Grants, Northern Arizona University, 2003, 2004, and 2008
University Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1999-2000
Morris K. Udall Research Grant, University of Arizona, 1999
Walter Prescott Webb Southwestern Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas History Department, 1998-1999
Western History Association Trennert-Iverson Conference Scholarship, 1998
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Prize for the best paper in Mexican American Studies, Center for Mexican American Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 1997