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Michael D. Wise

Title: Associate Professor

Department: History

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae Link

Education

  • PhD, University of Minnesota, 2012
    Major: History
  • MA, Montana State University, 2007
    Major: History
  • BA, Whitman College, 2004
    Major: History
    Specialization: Minor: Economics

Current Scheduled Teaching

HIST 5275.001Environmental HistorySpring 2025
HIST 6950.727Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
HIST 5940.001Fundamentals of Historical ScholarshipFall 2024
HIST 3333.001Horticultural Histories of North TexasFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

HIST 4271.031Hollywood and the Wild WestSummer 5W1 2024 SPOT
HIST 4275.801American Environmental HistorySpring 3W1 2024 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
HIST 6000.001The Historian as Historical SubjectSpring 2024 SPOT
HIST 6950.727Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
HIST 5940.001Fundamentals of Historical ScholarshipFall 2023 SPOT
HIST 5950.712Master's ThesisFall 2023
HIST 6950.703Doctoral DissertationSummer 5W1 2023
HIST 4271.031Hollywood and the Wild WestSummer 5W1 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
HIST 6940.723Individual ResearchSpring 2023
HIST 5950.708Master's ThesisSpring 2023
HIST 5900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2023
HIST 6000.001The Historian as Historical SubjectSpring 2023 SPOT
HIST 6950.709Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
HIST 6950.727Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
HIST 5940.001Historical BibliographyFall 2022 SPOT
HIST 6940.001Individual ResearchFall 2022
HIST 6940.712Individual ResearchFall 2022
HIST 6940.735Individual ResearchFall 2022
HIST 5950.709Master's ThesisFall 2022
HIST 5950.710Master's ThesisFall 2022
HIST 5900.704Special ProblemsFall 2022
HIST 5900.705Special ProblemsFall 8W2 2022
HIST 6900.701Special ProblemsFall 2022
HIST 4271.031Hollywood and the Wild WestSummer 5W1 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.703Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2022
HIST 5900.704Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2022
HIST 4275.031American Environmental HistorySpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
HIST 6000.001HistoriographySpring 2022 SPOT
HIST 6940.723Individual ResearchSpring 2022
HIST 5110.001Studies in United States HistorySpring 2022 SPOT
HIST 2620.501United States History Since 1865Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.727Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
HIST 5940.001Historical BibliographyFall 2021 SPOT
HIST 6940.712Individual ResearchFall 2021
HIST 4271.031Hollywood and the Wild WestSummer 5W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5110.001Studies in United States HistorySummer 5W1 2021 SPOT
HIST 6940.720Individual ResearchSpring 2021
HIST 5100.003Seminar in United States HistorySpring 2021 SPOT
HIST 6900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2021
HIST 5940.001Historical BibliographyFall 2020 SPOT
HIST 6000.001HistoriographyFall 2020 SPOT
HIST 6940.712Individual ResearchFall 2020
HIST 5900.744Special ProblemsFall 2020
HIST 6900.705Special ProblemsFall 2020
HIST 4275.031American Environmental HistorySummer 3W1 2020 SPOT
HIST 4271.031Hollywood and the Wild WestSummer 5W1 2020 SPOT
HIST 5900.716Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2020
HIST 6900.708Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2020
HIST 6950.701Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
HIST 6940.720Individual ResearchSpring 2020
HIST 6900.701Special ProblemsSpring 2020
HIST 6950.727Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
HIST 5940.001Historical BibliographyFall 2019 SPOT
HIST 6000.001HistoriographyFall 2019 SPOT
HIST 5100.002Seminar in United States HistoryFall 2019 SPOT
HIST 5900.744Special ProblemsFall 2019
HIST 4271.031Hollywood and the Wild WestSummer 5W2 2019 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.006Special ProblemsSummer 3W1 2019
HIST 5900.716Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2019
HIST 5900.806Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2019
HIST 5900.889Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2019
HIST 5950.702Master's ThesisSpring 2019
HIST 6940.712Individual ResearchFall 2018
HIST 5950.712Master's ThesisFall 2018
HIST 5900.744Special ProblemsFall 2018
HIST 4270.001The American WestFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2620.031United States History Since 1865Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2610.007United States History to 1865Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4271.031Hollywood and the Wild WestSummer 3W1 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4275.001American Environmental HistorySpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.720Individual ResearchSpring 2018
HIST 5950.702Master's ThesisSpring 2018
HIST 5100.001Seminar in United States HistorySpring 2018 SPOT
HIST 4900.707Special ProblemsSpring 2018
HIST 5900.718Special ProblemsSpring 2018
HIST 5950.712Master's ThesisFall 2017
HIST 5110.002Studies in United States HistoryFall 2017 SPOT
HIST 4261.004Topics in US HistoryFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4261.001Topics in US HistorySummer 3W1 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.702Master's ThesisSpring 2017
HIST 4261.005Topics in US HistorySpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2620.009United States History Since 1865Spring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.712Master's ThesisFall 2016
HIST 5950.727Master's ThesisFall 2016
HIST 5900.744Special ProblemsFall 2016
HIST 4261.006Topics in US HistoryFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2610.009United States History to 1865Fall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.702Master's ThesisSpring 2016
HIST 4261.005Topics in US HistorySpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2620.011United States History Since 1865Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.712Individual ResearchFall 2015
HIST 4900.737Special ProblemsFall 2015
HIST 5110.002Studies in United States HistoryFall 2015 SPOT
HIST 4261.001Topics in US HistoryFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.724Individual ResearchSummer 5W1 2015
HIST 4900.712Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2015
HIST 5900.718Special ProblemsSpring 2015
HIST 4260.001Topics in HistorySpring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 4261.002Topics in US HistorySpring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 2620.005United States History Since 1865Spring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 4900.737Special ProblemsFall 2014
HIST 5110.002Studies in United States HistoryFall 2014
HIST 4261.001Topics in US HistoryFall 2014 Syllabus
HIST 5900.806Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2014
HIST 6900.708Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2014
HIST 6900.805Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2014
HIST 5950.754Master's ThesisSpring 2014
HIST 5100.003Seminar in United States HistorySpring 2014
HIST 4261.001Topics in US HistorySpring 2014 Syllabus
HIST 2620.013United States History Since 1865Spring 2014 Syllabus
HIST 6940.712Individual ResearchFall 2013
HIST 5110.001Studies in United States HistoryFall 2013
HIST 4261.001Topics in US HistoryFall 2013 Syllabus
HIST 5900.715Special ProblemsSpring 2013
HIST 5110.001Studies in United States HistorySpring 2013
HIST 4260.002Topics in HistorySpring 2013 Syllabus
HIST 2620.013United States History Since 1865Spring 2013 Syllabus
HIST 4261.001Topics in US HistoryFall 2012 Syllabus
HIST 2610.005United States History to 1865Fall 2012 Syllabus

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Wise, M.D., Adams, C.J. (2024). Pedaling Resistance: Sympathy, Subversion, and Vegan Cycling. Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press.
  • Wise, M. (2023). Native Foods: Agriculture, Indigeneity, and Settler Colonialism in American History.
  • Michael Wise and Jennifer Jensen Wallach, eds.. (2016). The Routledge History of American Foodways.
  • Michael Wise. (2016). Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies Frontcountry. University of Nebraska Press.
  • Book Chapter

  • Wise, M.D. (2024). "Caring for the Human Horse: Reflections on Cycling and the Animal Senses".
  • Wise, M. (2023). Who Counts? Effective Altruism and the Problem of Numbers in the History of American Wildlife Conservation.
  • Wise, M.D. (2017). The Place that Feeds You: Allotment and the Struggle for Blackfeet Food Sovereignty. Food Across Borders, eds. Melanie Dupuis, Matthew Garcia, and Don Mitchell. Rutgers University Press.
  • Michael Wise. (2016). Meat. The Routledge History of American Foodways. 97-112.
  • Book Review

  • Wise, M.D. (2022). The Last Stand of the Pack: Critical Edition, by Arthur Carhart in collaboration with Stanley P. Young, eds. by Andrew Gulliford and Tom Wolf. New Mexico Humanities Review.
  • Wise, M. The American Steppes: The Unexpected Russian Roots of Great Plains Agriculture, 1870s-1930s, by David Moon. Journal of American History.
  • Wise, M. (2021). Basque Immigrants and Nevada’s Sheep Industry: Geopolitics and the Making of an Agricultural Workforce, 1880-1954, by Iker Saitua. Journal of American History.
  • Wise, M. (2020). Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments, and Regaining Health, eds. by Devon Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover. Western Historical Quarterly. 51 (3) 343-344.
  • Wise, M. (2020). Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America, by Joshua Specht. Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 123 (3) 371-373.
  • Wise, M. (2019). The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy's Great Gamble, by James E. Sherow. 100 (4) 251-252.
  • Wise, M. (2019). Liquid Landscape: Geography and Settlement at the Edge of Early America, by Michele Currie Navakas. The Journal of American History. 106 (3) 729-730.
  • Wise, M.D. (2018). The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States, eds. by Geoffrey Buckley and Yolanda Youngs. Historical Geography. 46
  • Wise, M.D. (2018). Tortillas, Tiswin, and T-Bones: A Food History of the Southwest, by Gregory McNamee. Western Historical Quarterly. 49 (484-485)
  • Wise, M.D. (2017). Wild by Nature: North American Animals Confront Colonization. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
  • Wise, M.D. (2017). Collared: Politics and Personalities in Oregon's Wolf Country by Aimee Lyn Eaton. Pacific Northwest Quarterly. 108 (2/3) 105-106.
  • Wise, M.D. (2017). Vanishing America: Species Extinction, Racial Peril, and the Origins of American Conservation by Miles A. Powell. Environmental History. 22 (4) 763-764.
  • Wise, M.D. (2017). Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i, by John Ryan Fischer. Ethnohistory. 64 (3)
  • Wise, M.D. (2017). Varmints and Victims: Predator Control in the American West, by Frank Van Nuys. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 115 (2) 300-301.
  • Wise, M.D. (2017). Epiphany in the Wilderness: Hunting, Nature, and Performance in the Nineteenth-Century American West, by Karen R. Jones. Western Historical Quarterly. 48 (1) 92-93.
  • Wise, M.D. (2015). Downwind: A People's History of the Nuclear West, by Sarah Alisabeth Fox. Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 119 (2)
  • Wise, M.D. (2014). Blackfoot Redemption: A Blood Indian's Story of Murder, Confinement, and Imperfect Justice, by William Farr. Journal of American Ethnic History. 33 (3) 110-111.
  • Wise, M.D. (2014). Eating the Landscape: American Indian Studies of Food, Identity, and Resilience, by Enrique Salmón. Agricultural History. 88 (3) 446-448.
  • Wise, M.D. (2013). Amskapi Pikuni: The Blackfeet People, by Clark Wissler and Alice Beck Kehoe. Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 33 (1) 249-250.
  • Journal Article

  • Wise, M. (2019). The Spatial Turn and the "Second Wave" of Food Studies. Historical Geography. 47
  • Wise, M. (2019). Vegan Fermentation in Place: An Interview with Carol J. Adams, edited by Michael D. Wise. Historical Geography. 47
  • Wise, M.D. (2018). The Ties of Historical Geography and Critical Indigenous Studies: An Interview Forum, ed. by Michael D. Wise. Historical Geography. 46
  • Wise, M.D. (2017). Seeing Like a Stomach: Food, the Body, and Jeffersonian Exploration in the Near Southwest, 1804-1807. Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 120 (4) 463-491.
  • Michael Wise. (2013). Killing Montana's Wolves: Stockgrowers, Bounty Bills, and the Uncertain Difference Between Predator and Producer. Montana: The Magazine of Western History. 63
  • Michael Wise. (2011). Colonial Beef and the Blackfeet Reservation Slaughterhouse, 1879-1895. Radical History Review. (110)
  • Scholarly Note

  • Wise, M.D. (2017). Native Foods and the Colonial Gaze. Process: The Official Blog of the Journal of American History. http://www.processhistory.org/wise-native-foods/

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Wise, M.D. (Principal), "Gentling Fellowship," sponsored by Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Private, $6000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).
  • Wise, M.D., "Giles W. and Elise G. Mead Foundation Fellowship," sponsored by The Huntington Library, Private, Funded. (2018 - 2019).
  • Grant - Research

  • Wallach, J.J., Wise, M.D., "Developing a Food Studies Mentoring Network," sponsored by UNT Office of Facultu Success, University of North Texas, Funded. (2017 - 2018).
  • Wise, M.D. (Co-Principal), Wallach, J.J. (Principal), "UNT Mentorship Network in Food Studies," sponsored by Office of Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $5000.00 Funded. (2016 - 2017).
  • Wallach, J.J., Wise, M.D., "Developing a Food Studies Mentoring Network," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. ( - 2016).
  • Grant - Service

  • Wise, M.D. (Other), Wallach, J.J., "UNT Mentorship Network in Food Studies," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $4800 Funded. (2014 - 2015).
  • Grant - Teaching

  • Wallach, J.J., Wise, M., "Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Fellowship in Food History," sponsored by Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts, National, $10000 Funded. (2020 - 2022).
  • Wise, M.D. (Co-Principal), Wallach, J.J. (Co-Principal), "Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Graduate Fellowship in Food History," sponsored by Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts, Private, $10000 Funded. (2018 - 2020).
  • Sponsored Research

  • Wise, M.D. (Principal), Mendiola Garcia, S.C. (Co-Principal), Hutson, N.M. (Co-Principal), "Milpa Agricultural Placemaking Project at the University of North Texas," sponsored by USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Federal, $400000 Funded. (2023 - 2027).
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