DOUGLAS FIRTH ANDERSON

Department of History
Northwestern College
101 7th St., S.W.
Orange City, IA 51041-1996
Phone: 712-707-7054 Fax: 712-707-7247

Internet: firth@nwciowa.edu

Web: home.nwciowa.edu/firth

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2009-2010	Interim Director, Ramaker Library, NWC
2006-	Project Archivist, HRDP Grant for NWC Archives
2002-2003	Visiting Scholar, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody
2001-	Professor of History, Northwestern College
1995-2001	Associate Professor of History, Northwestern College
1995-1996	Visiting Scholar, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
1989-1995	Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern College
1989	Lecturer, Dominican College of San Rafael
1982-1987	Adjunct, New College for Advanced Christian Studies
1986, 1984	Adjunct, American Baptist Seminary of the West

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:

2009-2010	Chair, Library Director Search Committee
2007-2008	Project Director, Humanities Iowa funded Minding Place Symposium
2004-	Member, Iowa State Nomination Review Committee, National Register of Historic Places
2005-2007 2001-2002, 1997-1999	Secretary, Faculty Status Committee, Northwestern College
1996-2002, 1990-1993	Chair, History Department, Northwestern College
1996-1997	President, Conference on Faith and History
1995-1996	Program Chair, Fall 1996 CFH Meeting
1994-1996	Vice President, Conference on Faith and History
1997-1999, 1990-1995	Director/Co-Director, Honors Program, Northwestern College

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS:

2003	Arrington-Prucha Prize, Western History Association
1994	Woodrow Wilson Award, Presbyterian Historical Society
1994-1999	The Northwestern College Professor Chair (5-year research endowment)

EDUCATION:

Certificate	Western Archives Institute, San Diego, June 2008
Ph.D.	Graduate Theological Union, 1988 (American religious history)
M.L.S.	University of California, Berkeley, 1974 (Library science)
B.A.	University of California, Berkeley, 1973 (History [honors])

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES ATTENDED AS COMMENTATOR:

· Missouri Valley History Conference: Omaha, Mar. 2010.

· Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies: Dordt College, June 2005.

· Missouri Valley History Conference: Omaha, Mar. 2002.

· Conference on Faith and History: Point Loma, Oct. 2000.

· Western History Association: Sacramento, Oct. 1998.

· American Society of Church History: San Francisco, Dec. 1989 (also served as last minute stand-in as session chair).

PUBLICATIONS, PAPERS, AND PROJECTS:

Book-

· Eldon G. Ernst with Douglas Firth Anderson, Pilgrim Progression: The Protestant Experience in California (Santa Barbara: Fithian Press, 1993).

Unpublished Book Ms.-

· In the Religious Borderlands of the Urban West: Protestant Anglophone Culture and Institutions in Metropolitan San Francisco, 1900-1920.

Projects-

· Western America: Many Places, Many Peoples. A projected 300-350 pp. historical synthesis of the region that became the U.S.A. west of the Mississippi River. Within an overall chronological narrative, the work would introduce various themes, issues, and topics reflective of the newer western historiography of the last two or three decades of the twentieth century. Its intended audience would be college undergraduates, either in general survey history courses of the U.S. or in history courses of the U.S. West.

· "Nantan Betunnykahyeh: John P. Clum, the Apaches of San Carlos Agency, and Cross-Cultural Respect, 1874-7." This projected paper is based on research conducted in the summer of 2000 at the Arizona Historical Society and the Special Collections of the University of Arizona Library.

Articles-

· “’More Conscience Than Force’: U.S. Indian Inspector William Vandever, Grant’s Peace Policy, and Protestant Whiteness.” Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era 9:2 (April 2010): 167-196.

· With Robert P. Swierenga and Robert Schoone-Jongen, "Iowa Letters, A Review Essay."  In Dutch Immigrants on the Plains, eds. Paul Fessler, Hubert R. Krygsman, and Robert P. Swierenga.  Holland, MI: Association for the Advancement of Dutch-American Studies, 2006.

· "Toward an Established Mysticism: Judeo-Christian Traditions in Post-World War II California and Nevada."  In Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Region: Fluid Identities, eds. Wade Clark Roof and Mark Silk.  Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, 2005.

· "'A Conflict of Interest': William Vandever, the Office of Indian Affairs, and Grant's Peace Policy." August 8, 2005. Northwestern College (IA), Lilly Grant Office, Vocare. <http://lilly.nwciowa.edu/common/pdf/anderson.pdf>

· “Protestantism, Progress, and Prosperity: John P. Clum and ‘Civilizing’ the U.S. Southwest, 1871-1886.” Western Historical Quarterly 33 (2002): 315-335. (Winner of the 2003 Arrington-Prucha Prize of the Western History Association.)

· "‘An Active and Unceasing Campaign of Social Education’: J. Stitt Wilson and Herronite Socialist Christianity." In Socialism and Christianity in Early Twentieth Century America, ed. Jacob H. Dorn. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1998.

· "Wisdom, Vanity, and 'Lessons' from History." Christian Scholar's Review 27 (1997): 46-61.

· "De frontier, het westen en het protestantisme in het Amerka van de 19e eeuw" ["The Frontier, the West, and Protestantism in the Nineteenth-Century U.S."] Transparant (Amsterdam) 6 (Nov. 1995): 8-13.

· “’A True Revival of Religion’: Protestants and the San Francisco Graft Prosecutions, 1906-1909." Religion and American Culture 4 (1994): 25-49.

· "Modernization and Theological Conservatism in the Far West: The Controversy Over Thomas F. Day, 1907-1912." Fides et Historia 24 (Summer 1992): 76-90. (Winner of the 1994 Woodrow Wilson Award of the Presbyterian Historical Society.)

· "'We Have Here A Different Civilization': Protestant Identity in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1906-1909." Western Historical Quarterly 23 (1992): 199-221.

· "Presbyterians and the Golden Rule: the Christian Socialism of J.E. Scott of San Francisco." American Presbyterians 67 (1989): 231-243.

· "The Reverend J. Stitt Wilson and Christian Socialism in California." In Religion and Society in the American West, eds. Carl Guarneri and David Alvarez. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1987.

· "San Francisco Evangelicalism, Regional Religious Identity, and the Revivalism of D.L. Moody." Fides et Historia 15 (Spring-Summer 1983): 44-66. (Anthologized in Marty, Martin E., ed. Protestantism and Regionalism. Munich: K.G. Saur, 1992.)

· "C.S. Lewis, Visioner of Reality." Radix 13 (November-December 1981): 12-15.

Reference Articles-

· “Allison, William Boyd” and “Wapello” for The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa, eds. David Hudson, Marvin Bergman, and Loren Horton (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2008).

· “Evangelicalism” and “Lutheranism” for Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, ed. David J. Wishart (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004).

· "Presbyterians and the West," "Marcus Whitman," "Henry Harmon and Eliza Hart Spalding," "William Anderson Scott," "William Alexander," and "Thomas Day" for Dictionary of the Presbyterian and Reformed Tradition in America, eds. D.G. Hart and Mark A. Noll (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999).

· "Joseph Augustine Benton," "Martin C. Briggs," "Daniel Lee," "Jason Lee," "William A. Scott," "Eliza Hart Spalding," "Henry Harmon Spalding," "William Speer," "Marcus Whitman," and "Narcissa Prentiss Whitman" for The Blackwell Dictionary of Evangelical Biography, 1730-1860, ed. Donald M. Lewis (London: Blackwell, 1996).

· “Protestants in the West,” "Christian Socialism," “Evangelists,” and "Thomas Starr King" for Encyclopedia of the American West, eds. Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod (New York: Macmillan, 1996).

· "Pacific" [San Francisco Congregationalist weekly] for Popular Religious Magazines of the United States, eds. P. Mark Fackler and Charles H. Lippy (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995).

Papers-

· “Religious Pluralism: A Fluid Pacific in Contrast to a Solid Midwest.” American Society of Church History, Philadelphia, 6 January 2006.

· “Nantan Betunnykahyeh: Indian Agent John P. Clum and the Apache.” Westerners, Cody (WY) Corral, 13 Jan. 2003.

· “Narrative, the ‘Cruciform Shape of Reality’, and the Writing of History: Prolegomena to a Non-Religious History of the American West.” Biennial Conference of the Conference on Faith and History, Huntington College, Indiana, 12 Oct. 2002.

· "Theological Controversy in the Far West: Presbyterians and Thomas F. Day, 1907-1912." American Society of Church History, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 28 April 1989.

· "The Reverend J. Stitt Wilson and Christian Socialism in California." Conference on Religion and Society in the West, St. Mary's College, Moraga, California, 16 June 1984.

· "'Give Up Strong Drink, Seek Religion, Go to Work, and Become a Man': the Rev. William Taylor and Gold Rush San Francisco." American Academy of Religion, Western Region Annual Meeting, Stanford University, 26 March 1982.

Report-

· "Renewing Rural Iowa: An Evaluation," written as a consultant for the Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture, June 1994, 76 pp.

Bibliography-

· "A Select Bibliography for American Religious History." TSF Bulletin 6 (November- December 1982): 15-16.

Review Essays-

· "'A Place Interchangeable with the Rest of the United States?': A Review Essay of the New Western History." Fides et Historia, 25 (Winter/Spring 1993): 99-109.

· "New Reading in American Religious History" [a review of 13 works]. Catalyst 17 (April 1991): 5-7.

· New Wine in Old Wineskins: Evangelicals and Liberals in a Small-Town Church, by R. Stephen Warner. American Presbyterians 67(1989): 255-258.

Book Reviews-

· To the Stars, Over Rough Roads: The Life of Andrew Atchison, Teacher and Missionary, by Donald F. Nelson. Great Plains Quarterly 30:2 (Spring 2010): 146-147.

· Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader, by Paul N. Beck. Journal of the West 48:3 (Summer 2009): 82-83.

· Eber: Pioneer in Iowa, 1854-1875, by Ronald H. Stone. Annals of Iowa 68:2 (Spring 2009): 182-183.

· Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West, eds. Fay Botham and Sara M. Patterson.  Western Historical Quarterly 38:4 (Winter 2007): 516-517.

· Sea La Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900, by Juan Francisco Martínez. Journal of the West 46:2 (Spring 2007): 106.

· Mennonites in Texas: The Quiet in the Land, by Laura L. Camden and Susan Gaetz Duarte.  Journal of the West 46:2 (Spring 2007): 102.

· God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West, by Todd M. Kerstetter.  Fides et Historia 38:2 (Summer/Fall 2006): 151-153.

· Taking the Jesus Road: The Ministry of the Reformed Church in America Among Native Americans, by LeRoy Koopman.  Church History 75 (2006): 448-450.

· Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas, by James R. Shortridge. Annals of Iowa 63 (Summer 2004): 321-322.

· Culture in the American Southwest: The Earth, the Sky, the People, by Keith L. Bryant and Homelands: A Geography of Culture and Place across America, eds. Richard L. Nostrand and Lawrence E. Estaville. Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 47 (Spring 2004): 57-60.

· Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment, by Leigh Eric Schmidt. Fides et Historia 34 (Summer/Fall 2002): 146-148.

· Emma Newman: A Frontier Woman Minister, by Randi Jones Walker. Church History 70 (2001): 386.

· Dancing Ghosts: Native American and Christian Syncretism in Mary Austin's Work, by Mark T. Hoyer. California History 78 (1999): 208-209.

· The New Encyclopedia of the American West, ed. Howard R. Lamar. Annals of Iowa 58 (1999): 310-311.

· Religion in Modern New Mexico, eds. Ferenc M. Szasz and Richard W. Etulain. Church History 67 (1998): 190-192.

· The West: An Illustrated History, by Geoffrey C. Ward. Annals of Iowa 56 (1997): 279-281.

· Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody’s Sister, by Edith L. Blumhofer. Fides et Historia 27 (Winter/Spring 1995): 107-109.

· The Oxford History of the American West, eds. Clyde A. Milner II, Carol A. O’Connor, and Martha A. Sandweiss. Annals of Iowa 54 (1995): 341-343.

· "No Sorrow Like Our Sorrow": Northern Protestant Ministers and the Assassination of Lincoln, by David B. Chesebrough. Annals of Iowa 54 (1995): 148-149.

· The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana, by Rob Kroes. American Presbyterians 73 (1995): 51-52.

· The Re-Forming Tradition: Presbyterians and Mainstream Protestantism, by Milton J. Coalter, John M. Mulder, and Louis B. Weeks. Journal of Church and State 37 (1995): 177-178.

· Presbyterian Missions and Cultural Interaction in the Far Southwest, 1850-1950, by Mark T. Banker. American Presbyterians 72 (1994): 64-67.

· Protestantism in the Sangre de Cristos, 1850-1920, by Randi Jones Walker. Fides et Historia 25 (1993): 124-125.

· Frontier Faiths: Church, Temple, and Synagogue in Los Angeles, 1846-1888, by Michael E. Engh. Church History, 62 (1993): 421-422.

· A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, by Mark A. Noll. Christian Scholar's Review, 23 (1993): 92-94.

· Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America, by Edwin S. Gaustad and Billy Sunday and the Redemption of Urban America, by Lyle W. Dorsett. Perspectives 7 (January 1992): 22.

· The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, 1865-1915, by Ferenc Morton Szasz. Church History 59 (1990): 117-118.

CHOICE Book Reviews (ALA college reviewing service) 1992-

· Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries, by Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg. Jan. 2011.

· The Home Fronts of Iowa, 1939-1945, by Lisa Ossian. Aug. 2010.

· The Yuma Reclamation Project: Irrigation, Indian Allotment, and Settlement along the Lower Colorado River, by Robert A. Sauder. June 2010.

· Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963, by Kevin Starr. May 2010.

· Big Sycamore Stands Alone: The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place, by Ian W. Record. Dec. 2009.

· Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City, by Robert Gottlieb.  Sept. 2008.

· The American West: A Concise History, by Anne M. Butler and Michael J. Lansing.  June 2008.

· Making Music in Los Angeles: Transforming the Popular, by Catherine Parsons Smith.  April 2008.

· Chief Marin: Leader, Rebel, and Legend, by Betty Goerke.  February 2008.

· Death of Celilo Falls, by Katrine Barber. September 2006.

· Ramona Memories: Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California, Dydia DeLyser. February 2006.

· The Freedom of the Streets: Work, Citizenship, and Sexuality in a Gilded Age City, Sharon E. Wood. February 2006.

· Indians, Missionaries, and Merchants: The Legacy of Colonial Encounters on the California Frontiers, Kent G. Lightfoot. September 2005.

· Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2002, Kevin Starr. May 2005.

· The New Urban Park: Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Civic Environmentalism, Hal K. Rothman.  October 2004.

· Believing in Place: A Spiritual Geography of the Great Basin, Richard V. Francaviglia. May 2004.

· Down and Out, On the Road: The Homeless in American History, Kenneth L. Kusmer. October 2002.

· Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul, Mary Lethert Wingerd. October 2002.

· American Indians and the Urban Experience, eds. Susan Lobo and Kurt Peters. October 2001.

· America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1914, Lewis L. Gould. September 2001.

· Kit Carson and the Indians, Tom Dunlay. June 2001.

· Spirit Wars: Native North American Religions in the Age of Nation Building, Ronald Niezen. January 2001.

· Into the West: The Story of Its People, Walter Nugent. June 2000.

· Our Prayers are in this Place: Pecos Pueblo Identity Over the Centuries, Frances Levine. June 2000.

· George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation, 1843-1920, Mary Jane Warde. May 2000.

· A Year of Mud and Gold: San Francisco in Letters and Diaries, 1849-1850, ed. William Benemann. Feb. 2000.

· Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson, and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920, by Jim Bissett. Jan. 2000.

· Treasure from the Painted Hills: A History of Calico, California, 1882-1907, by Douglas Steeples. July/Aug. 1999.

· Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, by Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace. Apr. 1999.

· Battling Demon Rum: The Struggle for a Dry America, by Thomas R. Pegram. Mar. 1999.

· Mangas Coloradas: Chief of the Chiricahua Apaches, by Edwin R. Sweeney. Jan. 1999.

· The Chiricauhua Apache Prisoners of War: Fort Sill, 1894-1914, by John Anthony Turcheneske. Mar. 1998.

· Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian, by William T. Hagan. Jan. 1998.

· Weaving Ourselves into the Land: Charles Godfrey Leland, "Indians," and the Study of Native American Religions, by Thomas C. Parkhill. Dec. 1997.

· Alleged Sex and Threatened Violence: Doctor Russel, Bishop Vladimir, and the Russians in San Francisco, 1887-1892, by Terence Emmons. Sept. 1997.

· John Slocum and the Indian Shaker Church, by Robert H. Ruby and John A. Brown. Feb. 1997.

· Gold Seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s, by David Goodman. July/Aug. 1995.

· The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900, by Philip J. Ethington. Mar. 1995.

· The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II, by Marilynn S. Johnson. Jul./Aug. 1994.

· Between God and Gold: Protestant Evangelicalism and the Industrial Revolution, 1820-1914, by Robert A. Wauzzinski. June 1993.

· John Randolph Haynes: California Progressive, by Tom Sitton. Mar. 1993.

· The Evolution of Political Protest and the Workingmen's Party of California, by Neil Larry Shumsky. Dec. 1992.

· Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage, by B. Carmon Hardy. Dec. 1992.

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