Andrew R. Graybill

CV: Andrew R. Graybill

Biography

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

• Faculty-in-Residence, Ware Residential Commons, 2019-
• Professor of History, 2014-
• Director, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, 2011-
• Chair, William P. Clements Department of History, 2014-19
• Associate Professor of History, 2011-14
• Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America, 2004-05

University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• Faculty Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2010-11
• Director, Program in Nineteenth-Century Studies, 2009-11
• Associate Professor of History, 2008-11
• Assistant Professor of History, 2005-08
• Visiting Assistant Professor of History, 2003-04

Princeton University

• Lecturer, Princeton Writing Program, 2002-03

Research Interests

North American West, with particular interest in continental expansion, borders, race, violence, and the environment.

Major Publications

• Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 (University of Nebraska Press, 2007)
• Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories co-edited with Benjamin H. Johnson (Duke University Press, 2010)
• The Red and the White: A Family Saga of the American West (Liveright, 2013)
• Civil War Wests: Testing the Limits of the United States, co-edited with Adam Arenson (University of California Press, 2015)

Selected Fellowships and Awards

• Texas Institute of Letters, Elected Member, 2020

• Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award, 2014

• Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, 2014 (finalist)

• Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Lectureship Program, 2014-

• Vivian A. Paladin Award, presented annually by the Montana Historical Society for the best article published in Montana: The Magazine of Western History, 2011

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Faculty Fellowship, 2010-11

• Canadian Embassy, Canadian Studies Conference Grant, 2007

• Montana Historical Society, James H. Bradley Research Fellowship, 2006

• Clements Center-DeGolyer Library Research Travel Grant, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2006

• Vernon Carstensen Award, presented annually by the Agricultural History Society for the best article published in Agricultural History, 2006

• Bolton-Kinnaird Award, presented annually by the Western History Association for the best article on the history of the borderlands, 2005

• Clements Fellowship for the Study of Southwestern America, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 2004-05

• Yale University, Phi Beta Kappa, 1994

Current Projects

The Indian Wars for North America: A Very Short Introduction (with Ari Kelman), Oxford University Press 

Editorial Work

The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History at the University of North Carolina Press