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First Name
Carter Jones
Last Name
Meyer
Country
United States
State
ME Maine
Affiliation
Ramapo College of New Jersey (Retired)
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Keywords
History of the American West, American Indian History, Late Nineteenth/Early Twentieth Century U.S. Cultural History
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About Me

I have always been interested in how cultures interact with one another in the United States, and so the West, where a particularly diverse group of people have met and interacted over time, has been a fruitful “laboratory” for my work. I am especially interested in relations between Natives and non-Natives in the history of the West, and I also explore the ways regional identity was constructed in the Southwest, where power and authority were situated in the process, how “authentic” culture was determined, and then how it was promoted and among whom. Art, music, literature and film provide an important interdisciplinary dimension to this work, a dimension that also informed my courses in the History and American Studies programs at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Specialties: History of the American West; American Indian history; late nineteenth and early twentieth century American cultural history.

Background: Recently retired Professor of History at Ramapo College of New Jersey, where I taught for 26 years. Ph.D. in American Civilization, Brown University (1991); A.M. in American Civilization, Brown University (1981); B.A. in American Studies, Skidmore College (1979).

Current Position: Editor, H-NewMexico, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences Online

Select Honors and Awards: Fred and Florence Thomases Faculty Award for significant and ongoing contributions to the mission of Ramapo College of New Jersey (2018); Henry Bischoff Award for Excellence in Teaching, Ramapo College of New Jersey (2009); John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Fellowship Award, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University (2004); Huntington Library Research Fellow (1986); Phi Beta Kappa (1979).

 

Recent Publications

Books:

Co-editor with Diana Royer, Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating American Indian Cultures (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001). Now in second printing.

 

Articles:

“Art, Authenticity and Identity at Santa Fe Indian Market” in American Indians and Popular Culture, edited by Elizabeth Delaney Hoffman (Santa Barbara: Praeger 2012)

 

“’A Battle between Art and Progress’: Edgar Hewett and the Politics of Region in the Early Twentieth Century Southwest” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 56:3 (fall 2006): 47-59.

 

“’Charming Indian Princess’: Tsianina Redfeather and the Quest for Native Identity in Early Twentieth Century America,” American Values: A New View (2005)

 

“Saving the Pueblos: Commercialism and Indian Reform in the 1920s,” in Meyer and Royer, eds., Selling the Indian

 

“Edgar Hewett, Tsianina Redfeather and Early Twentieth Century Indian Reform,” New Mexico Historical Review 75:2 (April 2000)

(Nominated for the “Society of Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Best Article Prize” sponsored by the Organization of American Historians, 2002)

Media Coverage
Country Focus
United States
Expertise by Geography
United States
Expertise by Chronology
20th century
Expertise by Topic
Indigenous Peoples, World War I