Maurice Crandall
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975 S Myrtle Ave Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Maurice Crandall is a citizen of the Yavapai-Apache Nation of Camp Verde, Arizona. He joined the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at ASU as Associate Professor of History in August, 2022. He is a historian of the Indigenous peoples of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Before coming to Arizona State, he was Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies at Dartmouth College. Crandall's 2019 monograph, These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912 (University of North Carolina Press), won the 2020 Caughey Western History Prize for the most distinguished book on the history of the American West, the 2020 Weber-Clements Prize for best non-fiction book on Southwestern America, and a 2020 Southwest Book Award.
Professor Crandall's current book project (under contract with Liveright/W.W. Norton) examines the roles played in their communities by Dilzhe'e Apaches and Yavapais who served as Scouts in the U.S. Army. He is particularly interested in how these men, as experienced border-crossers, served their communities after the so-called Indian Wars had concluded, from the 1890s to the 1930s.
PhD, the University of New Mexico, 2015.
Indigenous peoples of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Dilzhe’e Apache and Yavapai history; U.S. West; Borderlands; Public history.
Book:
These People Have Always Been a Republic: Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912, David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2019).
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
"Captive Cousins: Hoomothya, Wassaja, and a Lifetime of Unwellness," The Western Historical Quarterly, 54, no. 2 (Summer 2023), 117–136.
“Little Brother to Dartmouth: Thetford Academy, Colonialism, and Dispossession in New England,” The New England Quarterly, 95, no. 1 (March 2022), 39–65.
"Yava-Who?: Yavapai History and (Mis)Representation in Arizona’s Indigenous Landscape," The Journal of Arizona History, 61, no. 3&4 (Autumn/Winter 2020), 487–510.
“Carlos Montezuma and the Emergence of American Indian Activism,” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History (March 2018, approx. 13,000 words).
Book Chapters:
"Upland and River Yuman," Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1, Igor Krupnik, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 2022), 390–93.
“When the City Comes to the Indian: Yavapai-Apache Exodus and Return to Urban Indian Homelands, 1870s–1920s,” in Indian Cities: Histories of Indigenous Urbanization, Kent Blansett, Cathleen D. Cahill, and Andrew Needham, eds. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022), 138–64.
Other Publications:
"Reading the Landscape and Its History from a Yavapai-Apache Perspective," Sedona Red Rock News, March 6, 2024.
“Religious Gatekeeping in Red-Rock Country,” High Country News, 54, no. 1 (January 2022), 44–45.
"Apaches in Unexpected Places," review essay of Paul Conrad, The Apache Diaspora: Four Centuries of Displacement and Survival (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), Reviews in American History, 51, no. 4 (December 2023), 321–328.
“Sovereign Impunity,” review essay of Alexandra Harmon, Reclaiming the Reservation: Histories of Indian Sovereignty Suppressed and Renewed (University of Washington Press, 2019), Reviews in American History, 49, no. 1 (March 2021), 113–18.
“Reflections on The Social Organization of the Western Apache and Grenville Goodwin Among the Western Apache: Letters from the Field," University of Arizona Press Open Arizona Series (April 2020, approx. 2,600 words).
“Wassaja Comes Home: A Yavapai Perspective on Carlos Montezuma’s Search for Identity,” The Journal of Arizona History, 55, no. 1 (Spring 2014), 1–26. Winner of C. L. Sonnichsen Award, Arizona Historical Society, given for best article of The Journal of Arizona History in 2014.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
| HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
| HST 338 | Amer Indian History since 1900 |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 485 | History in the Wild |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 109 | United States to 1865 |
| HST 338 | Amer Indian History since 1900 |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| HST 495 | Methods of Historical Inquiry |
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Arizona State University School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Spring 2021.
The Clements Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America, William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2016–2017.
Member, Editorial Board, David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History, University of North Carolina Press, 2020–present.
Member, Editorial Board, the Journal of Arizona History, 2018–2021.
Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, Dartmouth College, 2017–2022.
Historical Projects Specialist, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, 2015–2016.
Associate Editor and Book Review Editor, New Mexico Historical Review, 2011–2014.