Department of History                                                                                                  telephone: 717-766-2511 ext. 7381
Messiah College                                                                                                          fax: 717-691-6040
Box 3051                                                                                                                    email: jlagrand@messiah.edu
One College Avenue
Grantham PA  17027

Education
Ph.D., U.S. History, Indiana University, 1997
    major field: U.S. history since 1877; minor fields: oral history, American Studies
M.A., U.S. History, Indiana University, 1992
B.A., History, Calvin College, 1990

Areas of Study
20th-century U.S., American Indian, public

Academic Employment
Assistant Professor of American History, Department of History, Messiah College, 1997-present
Associate Instructor, Department of History, Indiana University, 1995-1997
Course Assistant, Department of History, Indiana University, 1994-1995

Courses
HIS 104: U.S. History, 1865-present
HIS 152: The Wild West
HIS 154: Vietnam War America
HIS 261: Public History
HIS 327: African-American History since 1865
HIS 333: Native American History
HIS 347: U.S. Urban History
HIS 336: From Omaha to Hiroshima: U.S. History, 1890-1945
HIS 338: Modern America: U.S. History, 1945-present
HIS 420: Historiography and the Philosophy of History

Book
Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-75.  Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2002.

Published Articles and Book Chapters
“Indian Work and Indian Neighborhoods: Adjusting to Life in a Midwestern Metropolis during the 1950s,” in Edmunds, R. David, ed.  A People In-Between: Native Americans in the Midwest.  Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2003 [forthcoming].
“Whose Voices Count? Oral Sources and Twentieth-Century American Indian History,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 21:1 (Winter 1997): 73-105.
“The Changing ‘Jesus Road’: Protestants Reappraise American Indian Missions in the 1920s and 1930s,” Western Historical Quarterly 27 (Winter 1996): 479-504.
“The American West,” OAH Magazine of History 9 (Fall 1994): 3-4 [co-authored with Bradley J. Young].

Published Reviews

• review of Joy Porter’s To Be Indian in Journal of American History 89 (March 2003) [forthcoming].
• review of Peter Nabokov’s A Forest of Time in American Indian Culture and Research Journal 26:4 (Fall 2002) [forthcoming]
• review of Donald L. Fixico’s The Urban Indian Experience in America and Susan Lobo and Kurt Peters’ American Indians and the  Urban Experience in American Studies 43:1 (Spring 2002): 202-203.
• review of Navajo Oshley and Robert S. McPherson’s The Journey of Navajo Oshley in American Indian Culture and Research Journal 25:2 (Spring 2001): 176-179.
• review of Howard J. Langer’s American Indian Quotations in American Indian Culture and Research Journal 21:4 (Fall 1997): 293-296.
• review of William G. McLoughlin’s The Cherokees and Christianity in Journal of Appalachian Studies 3:1 (1997): 161-163.
• review of Alice Littlefield and Martha C. Knack’s Native Americans and Wage Labor in Michigan Historical Review 22:2 (Fall 1996): 211-212.
• review of Gerald Vizenor’s Manifest Manners in Western Historical Quarterly 27:1 (Spring 1996): 87.

• Reading and book-signing of Indian Metropolis at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, Evanston, Illinois, January 2003.
•  “Public History: Education and Employment,” Pennsylvania Historical Association annual meeting, Millersville University, October 2002.
• “How to be an Indian in the City: The Creation of a Twentieth-Century Urban Indian Identity,” Urban History Association biennial meeting, Pittsburgh, September 2002.
• “Off the Reservation and Into the City: American Indians in Twentieth-Century Chicago,” FIF Presentation Series, Messiah College, October 2001.
• “First in Identity Politics: Urban Indians and a Changing American Society in the 1960s and 1970s,” American Indian Leaders conference, Center for Indigenous Nations Studies, University of Kansas, September 2000.
•  “Using Assessment in Teaching History,” Chat and Chew Forum on Teaching, Messiah College, October 1999.
• “Preparing a Curriculum Vitae for a Small Liberal Arts College Job,” Organization of American Historians annual meeting, Toronto, April 1999.
• “The Invention of the ‘Noble Savage’ and Other Episodes in Native American History and Mythology,” Department of History Symposium, Messiah College, November 1997.
• “Whose Voices Count? Oral Sources and Twentieth-Century American Indian History,” American Society for Ethnohistory annual meeting, Kalamazoo, November 1995.
• “‘We’re All Striving for Survival Here’: American Indians in Chicago, 1941-1961,” Western History Association annual meeting, Albuquerque, October 1994.
• “Urban American Indians,” Phi Alpha Theta regional annual meeting, Indiana University, April 1993.

Awards and Honors
Scholarship Grant, Messiah College, 2002
Scholar Chair, Messiah College, 2000-2002
Scholarship Grant, Messiah College, 1999
Curricular Development Grant, Messiah College, 1998
Teaching Excellence Award, Department of History, Indiana University, 1997
Albert L. Kohlmeier Fellowship, Department of History, Indiana University, 1996
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Research and Graduate School, Indiana University, 1995
Grant-in-Aid of Research, Department of History, Indiana University, 1995

Professional Experience
Consultant, “A Teacher and Student for Life”: Dr. Ray H. Crist
 (segment in Barwood Films’ The Living Century series, airdate January 2001)
Referee, American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 1996, 1999
Guest Editor, issue of OAH Magazine of History 9 (Fall 1994) on “American West”
Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities Workshop, Newberry Library, summer 1992
Assistant Editor, OAH Magazine of History, 1991-1994

Professional Memberships
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
Western History Association
Conference on Faith and History