Michel Hogue
Michel Hogue
5080 Mosse Humanities Building
455 N. Park Street
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI 53703
hogue@wisc.edu
Education
Ph.D. (in progress), University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dissertation: “Between Race and Nation: The Plains Métis and the Canada-United States
Border.” Committee: Susan L. Johnson, chair; William Cronon, Ned Blackhawk, and
Sarah Carter, members.
Fields: U.S. West; U.S. History, 1830-1930; Canada, 1867- present
M.A.,
2002,
University
of
Calgary.
Thesis: “Crossing the Line: The ‘Canadian’ Cree in the Canada-United States
Borderlands, 1870-1900.” Advisors: Sarah Carter, Elizabeth Jameson
B.A.,
1998,
Simon
Fraser
University.
History and Latin American Studies major
Fellowships and Awards (Selected)
Doris G. Quinn Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2008-09
Roger Blattberg and Milton R. Gusch Dissertator Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2007
Innovation in Teaching Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006
Committee on Institutional Cooperation Graduate Student Fellowship in American Indian Studies, 2006
Theodore J. Oesau Scholarship, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2004
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, 2002-06
Canada-U.S. Fulbright Scholarship, 2002-03
James H. Bradley Fellowship, Montana Historical Society, 2001
Province of Alberta Graduate Scholarship, 2000-01
Faculty of Graduate Studies Top-Up Award, University of Calgary, 2000-01
Chancellor Norford Graduate Scholarship, University of Calgary, 2001
Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship, University of the West Indies, Kingston,
Jamaica, 1999 (declined)
Publications
Articles (refereed):
“Between Race and Nation: The Creation of a Métis Borderland,” in Bridging National Borders
in North America, ed. Andrew R. Graybill and Benjamin H. Johnson (Durham: Duke
University Press: forthcoming).
“Crossing the Line: Race, Nationality, and the Deportation of the ‘Canadian’ Cree in the Canada-
U.S. Borderlands, 1890-1900,” in The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests:
Essays on the Regional History of the 49th Parallel, ed. Sterling Evans (Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 2006), pp. 155-71.
“Disputing the Medicine Line: The Plains Crees and the Canadian-American Border, 1876-
1885,” Montana the Magazine of Western History 52, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 2-17.
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Reprinted in One West, Two Myths: A Comparative Reader, ed. C.L. Higham and Robert
Thacker (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004), pp. 85-108.
Book Reviews:
Review of Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier,
1875-1910, by Andrew R. Graybill, Great Plains Quarterly, forthcoming.
Review of The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana
Borderlands, by Sheila McManus, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 7, no. 1
(Spring 2006).
Review of Plateau Indians and the Quest for Spiritual Power, 1700-1850, by Larry Cebula,
Journal of the Early Republic 25, no. 2 (2005): 315-17.
Review of Rediscovering the Great Plains: Journeys by Dog, Canoe, and Horse, by Norman
Henderson, Montana the Magazine of Western History 52, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 93-4.
Teaching Experience
Sessional Instructor, University of Calgary (Summer 2006)
Canada Since 1867
Mild West/Wild West: Comparative History of the U.S. and Canadian Wests
Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Fall 2005)
The American West since 1850
Coordinator and Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison, (Summer 2005)
The Santa Fe Trail: In Search of the Multiracial West (a two-week on-the-bus summer course
with 35 undergraduate and graduate students)
Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison
America in the World since 1898
American Environmental History
The American West to 1850
Teaching Assistant, University of Calgary
Magic, Science, and Religion in Europe to 1600
Presentations
Scholarly papers:
“Capturing Sheriff Healy: Métis Buffalo Hunters & the Law in the Milk River Country.” Montana
History Conference – Glasgow, MT, October 17, 2008.
“Remapping Prairie History from the Borderlands.” Western Canadian Studies Conference –
Edmonton, AB, June 19, 2008.
“The Myers Scrip Commission and the ‘American’ Métis: Citizenship, Nationality, and the Politics of
Half-Breed Scrip.” Canadian Historical Association and Canadian Indigenous and Native
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Studies Association Conference, Joint Session on Fur Trade and Métis History – Saskatoon,
SK, May 28, 2007.
“Between Race and Nation: The Creation of a Métis Borderland on the Northern Plains, 1850-1900.”
Bridging National Borders in North America – William P. Clements Center for Southwest
Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, March 2007 and Simon Fraser University,
Vancouver, BC, September 2006.
“Across the Forty-Ninth Parallel: Canada, the United States, and the Métis, 1860-1890.” American
Historical Association Conference – Atlanta, GA, January 7, 2007.
“Marking Differences: The Creation of a Métis Borderland on the Northern Plains.” Canadian Historical
Association Conference – Toronto, ON, May 31, 2006.
“Desperately Seeking…: Ethnographic Displays at the Logan Museum of Anthropology and the Search
for an Indigenous Past.” Western History Association Conference – Las Vegas, NV, October
15, 2004. Also presented at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation-American Indian
Studies Graduate Student Conference – Ann Arbor, MI, April 16, 2004.
“Native Asylum in the Borderlands: The ‘Canadian’ Cree in Montana, 1885-1896.” Canadian Historical
Association Conference – Halifax, NS, May 29, 2003.
“Marking the Medicine Line: The Restriction of Aboriginal Cross-border Movement in the Montana-
Alberta Borderlands, 1870-1900.” Montana History Conference – Helena, MT, October 26,
2001.
“Crossing the Line: The ‘Canadian’ Cree in the Canada-United States Borderlands, 1870-1900.” Pacific
Coast Branch, American Historical Association – Vancouver, BC, August 10, 2001.
“A Canadian Approach? Canada’s Official Development Assistance and Foreign Policy Towards
Cuba.” Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS)
- Vancouver, BC, March 1998.
Roundtable Sessions:
Session entitled, “Teaching Race in the West on the Road: The University of Wisconsin’s
Mobile Course, ‘The Santa Fe Trail: In Search of the Multiracial West.’” Western
History Association Conference – St. Louis, MO, October 12, 2006.
Session entitled, “Comparing Colonial Histories: A Roundtable Discussion with Shula Marks.”
Canadian Historical Association Conference – Halifax, NS, May 30, 2003.
Invited Talks:
“Boundarylines and Crossings” (panel discussion on literary and cultural issues along the
Montana-Canada border). Helena Festival of the Book – Helena, MT, October 9, 2008.
“The Montana Métis.” Montana Historical Society Museum – Helena, MT, October 14, 2008.
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“Tangled Threads and Hidden Pasts: Investigating the Histories of ‘Peoples in Between.’”
Blattberg Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison – Madison, WI, April 30,
2007.
“Beyond the Medicine Line: The ‘Canadian’ Cree in Montana.” Bradley Breakfast Presentation,
Montana History Conference – Havre, MT, October 25, 2002.
“Aboriginal Peoples and Fort Walsh: A Borderlands Perspective.” Fort Walsh National
Historic Site - Fort Walsh, SK, May 14, 2002.
“The Restriction of Plains Cree Cross-Border Movement in the Montana-Canada Borderlands,
1876-1885.” O’Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West, University of Montana
– Missoula, MT, May 1, 2002.
Service
Mentor, Incoming Student Mentor Program, History Department, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, 2006-07
Bradley Fellowship Committee, Montana Historical Society, 2002
M.A. Representative, Department of History, University of Calgary, 2001-02
Professional Organization Memberships
Organization of American Historians
Canadian Historical Association
Montana Historical Society
Western History Association
Pre-Doctoral Employment
Acquisitions & Marketing Assistant, The University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, WI, 2007-08
Research Consultant, Litigation Management & Resolution Branch, Indian and Northern Affairs
Canada, Vancouver, BC & Calgary, AB, 1996, 1997, 1998-2000
Freelance Researcher, Juan de Fuca Research Project, Department of Hellenic Studies, Simon
Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, 1998
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