Peter Iverson

Peter Iverson is the Regents Professor of History (Emeritus) at Arizona State University. Iverson received his B.A. in 1967 from Carleton College; his M.A. in 1969, and Ph.D., 1975, from the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he studied with Al Bogue, Robert Berkhofer, Catharine McClellan, and Herb Lewis.[1] He was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999. He served as President of the Western History Association. His primary area of research is American Indian history in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Scholarship

Iverson is the author of twelve books in American Indian history, as well as many articles. Those works include:

  • With Zah, Peterson, We Will Secure Our Future: Empowering the Navajo Nation (2012).
  • With Benally, AnCita, Finding History. Western Historical Quarterly (2005).
  • Review of The Anguish of Snails: Native American Folklore in the West. Western Historical Quarterly (2005).
  • American Indian History as a Continuing Story. The Historian (2004).
  • 'For Our Navajo People': Diné Letters, Speeches, and Petitions, 1900-1960. University of New Mexico Press (2004).
  • American Indians in the 20th Century. A Companion to the American West. Blackwell (2004).
  • Foreword. Treasures of the Navajo Horsemen: Historic Saddle Blankets From the Getzwiller Collection (2003).
  • Four Legged Beings: Native Culture and the Horse. Native Peoples (2003).
  • With Carpio, Myla Vicenti, 'The Inalienable Right to Govern Ourselves': Wendell Chino and the Struggle For Self-Determination in Modern New Mexico. New Mexico Lives: Profiles and Historical Stories (2002).
  • Foreword. Chronology of the American West: From 23,000 B.C.E. Through the 20th Century (2002).
  • Diné: A History of the Navajos. University of New Mexico Press (2002). ISBN 978-0826327154.
  • For Our Navajo People: Diné Letters, Speeches, and Petitions, 1900-1960. University of New Mexico Press (2002).
  • With Vicenti Carpio, Myla. 'The Inalienable Right to Govern Ourselves' Wendell Chino and the Struggle for Self-Determination in Modern New Mexico. New Mexican Lives. University of New Mexico Press (2002).
  • It's Time for Arizona to Grow Up. Arizona Republic (2001).
  • The Road to Reappearance: Indian History Since 1890. Montana: The Magazine of Western History (2001).
  • Carlos Montezuma and the Changing World of American Indians. University of New Mexico Press (2001). ISBN 978-0826307620.
  • With Hurtado, Albert, Major Problems in American Indian History. Houghton Mifflin (2001).
  • Riders of the West: Portraits from Indian rodeo (1999). Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-97786-8. Photographs by Linda MacCannell; foreword by Carolyn O Buffalo.
  • Indians in American History: An introduction (1998). Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson. ISBN 0-88295-939-5. Co-editor Frederick E Hoxie.
  • We Are Still Here: American Indians in the twentieth century (1998). Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson. ISBN 0-88295-940-9.
  • Barry Goldwater: Native Arizonan (1997). Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-2958-1.
  • Major Problems in American Indian History: Documents and essays (1994). Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Co. ISBN 0-669-27049-0.Co-editor Albert L Hurtado.
  • When Indians Became Cowboys: Native peoples and cattle ranching in the American West (1994). Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-1867-9.
  • The Navajos (1990). New York: Chelsea House Publishers. ISBN 1-55546-719-9.
  • The Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century (1985). Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-1866-0.
  • Carlos Montezuma and the Changing World of American Indians (1982). Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 0-8263-0641-1.
  • The Navajo Nation (1981). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-22309-2.
  • The Navajos: A critical bibliography (1976). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-33986-3.

Academic Lineage

Iverson Studied with Allen Bogue at Wisconsin who studied with Paul Gates who studied with James Hedges who studied with Frederick Jackson Turner the author of the Frontier Thesis.

Iverson's Students

A partial list of Iverson's Ph.D. Students can be found at MPACT's project. Notable Students include:

Steve Ammerman of Southern Connecticut State University and author of Urban Indians Indians in Phoenix Schools. Laurie Arnold (Coleville) of Gonzaga University's Department of History author of Bartering with the Bones of their Dead and 2019 Yale University Beinecke Library Research award grant winner. Myla Vicenti Carpio (Jicarilla, Laguna, Isleta) of Arizona State University and author of numerous works including Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies (with Jeff Shepherd) as well as monographs and many articles. Brian S Collier of the University of Notre Dame teaches American Studies courses in the field of Native Studies and the History of Education. Collier most notably teaches with the ACE program (Alliance for Catholic Education) where he has been Coordinator of Supervision, Social Studies faculty for the graduate students, and where he is Director of the American Indian Catholic Schools network. Collier is also the 2014 winner of the Western History Association's Award of Merit, now known as the Gordon Bakken Award of Merit. Andy Fischer, also known as the Great Andy Fisher, who teaches at the College of William and Mary and is an author. Jeff Shepherd, a distinguished author and full professor from the University of Texas El-Paso (UTEP). John Heaton, former director of the Western History Association and professor and author from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Rose Soza WarSoldier (Mountain Maidu/Cahuilla/Luiseño, is an enrolled member of Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians) professor and author from the Ethnic Studies department at Northern Arizona University.

References
  1. "Peter Iverson" (PDF). Western History Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 18, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
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