American Society of Ethnohistory Lifetime Achievement Award 2017 Recipients

Jennifer Brown, Professor Emerita of History, University of Winnipeg. Jennifer Brown received her doctorate in anthropology in 1976 from the University of Chicago, which launched her career as one of the foremost authorities on the practice of ethnohistory, Métis studies, and fur-trade history. She established her reputation as an astute scholar in 1980, with the publication of her first book, Strangers in Blood, based on her PhD thesis, which became a foundational text in ethnohistory, fur-trade history, and historical archaeology, as well as for normalizing issues of gender, Métis, and family in ethnohistorical investigations. Jennifer also became deeply involved with another foundational scholar, A. Irving Hallowell, who much earlier had done research with northern Ojibwe communities. By introducing Hallowell to a younger audience and showing why his scholarship continues to be important, she has contributed to a kind of institutional kinship in doing ethnohistory. She has published over a dozen books and countless articles and book chapters on these subjects. From 2004 to 2011 she served in the prestigious position of University of Winnipeg Canada Research Chair (Tier 1), and in 2008 she was elected as a fellow to the Royal Society of Canada, the highest honor for scholarship in Canada.Jennifer was also instrumental in creating the Centre for Rupert’s Land Studies at the University of Winnipeg. The Rupert’s Land Centre, with its biannual conferences held in different cities and towns, has played an important role in encouraging Canadian and borderlands fur-trade research and in introducing the fur trade to the public. Most recently, Jennifer has been exploring her own family connections to the fur-trade world, thereby combining fur trade and family history research. As a senior scholar, she has reflected on her own lifetime of contributions in a new book launched at the Ethnohistory conference in 2018, An Ethnohistorian in Rupert’s Land: Unfinished Conversations.Jennifer has also served as an exemplary mentor. Throughout her career, she strongly supported students and younger scholars and became friends with all of them. She and her husband, Wilson Brown, invited into their home students and colleagues when they visited the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives, and they hosted memorable post-conference gatherings.Importantly, she was one of the first to open wide the scholarly door to women, both as students and scholars and as subjects for study, and is acclaimed for this work.Jennifer has a lasting passion for ethnohistory that has guided her many achievements. She has been instrumental in building ethnohistory as a discipline and in supporting and developing the American Society for Ethnohistory as the discipline’s flagship organization. The ASE now honors Jennifer’s many contributions with its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.Robert Carmack, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, State University of New York at Albany. Robert (Bob) Carmack was born in Winslow, Arizona, grew up in Santa Barbara, California, and (after serving in the US military) attended UCLA, where he graduated in quick succession in three distinct fields of study, earning his bachelor’s degree in zoology in 1960, his master’s in physiology in 1962, and his PhD in anthropology in 1965. His doctoral investigations saw him blossom under the formative influence of two eminent Mesoamericanists, Pedro Carrasco and Henry (Hank) Nicholson. Having served the Church of Latter Day Saints as one of its missionaries—for two years he spread word of the Book of Mormon while engaged in pastoral work in Totonicapán, Guatemala—Bob’s exposure to K’iche’ Maya language, land, and life shaped thereafter his scholarly career and academic achievements. For more than half a century he has made pioneering contributions to how we know, read, and learn from the ways, texts, and travails of the highland Maya. His books The Quiché Mayas of Utatlán (1981) and Rebels of Highland Guatemala (1995); Quichean Civilization (1973) and the Títulos de los Señores Coyoy (1993); and Harvest of Violence (1988) are but five of his acclaimed titles as author, translator, and editor. A practitioner of, and contributor to, the field of ethnohistory since the endeavor and the journal that carries that name were first invoked, Bob is not only a worthy and deserving but also an emblematic recipient of the ASE’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor Emerita of Southern Culture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In our profession, we measure worth through the categories of scholar, teacher, and service to the profession. Theda Perdue began her career as a historian as the only woman in her graduate program at the University of Georgia, where she studied with two Charlies—Crowe and Hudson. So far—and she’s still hard at work—Theda has published fifteen books and dozens of articles. Two of the most vibrant areas of inquiry in southeastern Indian studies began with her work: she first asked questions about Indians, race, and slavery that many other scholars still seek to answer, and no scholar can write about Native American history without addressing gender because of her. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835, published by the University of Nebraska Press in 1998, has been a game changer—a book that fundamentally altered the way we think, write, and teach about women and men in the past, and a crossover success that is taught in graduate and undergraduate classes and enjoyed by general reading audiences. Her outstanding intellectual contributions have been recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, among other organizations too numerous to list.Theda taught at Western Carolina University and the University of Kentucky before settling down in Chapel Hill as the Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies. She is now an emerita professor. An award-winning teacher, her accessible scholarship informed her dynamic approach to undergraduate and graduate education. Her commitment to making Indian histories intelligible, accessible, and an important part of the academy inspired her service to our professional organizations. She has led us as the president of both of the ASE and the Southern Historical Association. With her late husband, Mike Green, she also edited the University of Nebraska Press’s long-standing and successful series Indians of the Southeast.The last category in which Theda has excelled throughout her career is, we would suggest, the most important. As a mentor, Theda advised not only authors who published in her series and graduate students whom she and Mike trained, but also dozens of other scholars who share her passion for the Native South and Native women’s histories. If we measure a scholar’s contributions by the reach of her ideas and published words, Theda rivals any historian. If we consider, too, the scholarship that wouldn’t have been possible without her support of colleagues and students, then Theda certainly is one of the most important historians of our time.Neal Salisbury, Professor Emeritus of History, Smith College. Neal Salisbury received his BA, MA, and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles and taught at Smith from 1973 until his retirement in 2008. Salisbury is widely recognized as a leading scholar of Native New England history. His Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500–1643, published by Oxford University Press in 1982, was revolutionary. Up until that point, hundreds of books had been written on puritanism in New England and how English colonists’ religious faith informed the founding of the nation that would one day become the United States. In contrast, Salisbury demonstrated that the region’s Native people had religious faith, too, and showed how indigenous spiritual beliefs also shaped the course of history. Today, Manitou and Providence continues to be regarded as the most authoritative work on the role of religion in the cultural encounter of Algonquians and English colonists in early New England and in the political fallout of conflicting worldviews as the English gained a foothold in the region.Salisbury is also known for his many works of synthesis. He has contributed to textbooks for courses in American history and American Indian history; coedited volumes of collected essays, including Blackwell’s Companion to American Indian History; and edited the Mary Rowlandson account for the Bedford/St. Martin’s documents series, a second edition of which is imminent. In addition, Salisbury has been one of several scholars overseeing the influential Cambridge University Press book series called Cambridge Studies in North American Indian History.An active and devoted member of the American Society for Ethnohistory, Salisbury served as its president in 1998–99 and continues to regularly attend the society’s annual meetings.Susan Schroeder, Scholes Professor Emerita of Colonial Latin American History, Tulane University. Susan Schroeder has enjoyed a relatively brief but brilliant career as a historian of Mexico’s native peoples. Starting as a nontraditional student, she pursued her studies at UCLA working with James Lockhart, which culminated in 1984 with a PhD in colonial Mexican ethnohistory. She then rose through the ranks at Loyola University Chicago, before becoming in 1999 the Scholes Professor of Colonial Latin American History at Tulane, where she is now an emerita professor. Her books and articles on the Nahua intellectual Chimalpahin and related aspects of Mexican ethnohistory have placed both Chimalpahin and Susan herself at the center of the study of Aztec (she’d prefer the term Mexica) and colonial Mexico. Even in retirement she has continued to influence the direction of the field, with a new book, Tlacaelel Remembered, out less than a year ago. At Tulane she guided almost a dozen PhD students to graduation, but her mentorship has extended far beyond those students to embrace several generations of grateful scholars whose professional lives have been aided and enriched by her example and support.Although a quiet and reserved person, she made herself an important fixture in the study of the Nahua in general and Chimalpahin and Amecameca in particular. Her work has been insightful and has broken new ground in our understanding of the authorship of so many lost and anonymous early colonial manuscripts. Our field has been greatly enhanced by her work. Susan Schroeder has, in every conceivable way, made a positive difference.

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