Ian Berdanier

(208) 850-9025

berdian@isu.edu

Department of History

Idaho State University

921 S. 8th Ave., Stop 8079

Pocatello, ID 83209-8079

EDUCATION

M.A. student, Historical Resource Management & Postgraduate Certificate in Geotechnology; Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID); 2014 - present

B.S. English; North Dakota State University; (Fargo, ND); minors: History & Art; 8/2014

A.A.S. Drafting Technology; Central Georgia Technical College; (Macon, GA); 6/2011

A.A.S. Tech. Studies-Architectural Drafting; Athens Technical College; (Athens, GA); 3/2011

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Idaho State University, Graduate Teaching Assistantship; 2015-2016

HIST 3309: Modern United States

HIST 2249 World Regional Geography

Idaho State University, Student Success Center; Writing Tutor; 2015

Idaho Museum of Natural History; Graduate Intern; 2015-2016

Idaho State University; Graduate Teaching Assistantship; 2014-2015

HIST 1118: U.S. History and Culture

HIST 3307: Early North America

HIST 3309: Modern United States

North Dakota State University

Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program, 2012-2014

GUEST LECTURES

HIST 4405/5505 Special Topics: World War I and its Legacy

“The Great War and Colonial Empires” Feb. 2015

HIST 2249 World Regional Geography

“Postcolonial Sub-Saharan Africa” March 2016

PRESENTATIONS

“500 Years of More – or Less – Utopia: GISTing an Encroaching, Modern State”; 500 Years of Utopia: Commemorating the 500^th Anniversary of Thomas More’s Utopia; 17^th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe (Lisbon, Portugal); July 2016 – INVITED

“Whitening the Maori and Blackening the Briton in George F. Angas’s Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand”; Colloquium on Narrative; Idaho State University (Pocatello, ID); March 2015

“Arcadian Dreams and Anti-modern Migrations” The Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting; University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ); September 2014

“Marketing Utopia: Nineteenth-Century Art and New Zealand Emigration”; McNair Scholars Research Forum, North Dakota State University (Fargo, ND); May 2014

“Antimodernism: Cross-Cultural Heterodoxy of Derationalization”; McNair Scholars Research Forum (Fargo, ND); April 2013

PUBLICATIONS

2015 Black Rock and Sage Creative Works Journal of the ISU Dept. of Arts and Letters

Visual Arts : tessellation drawing in pencil “Turquoise ‘n Leather.”

2014 Northern Eclecta Creative Writing Journal of the NDSU Dept. of English

Visual Arts: fine art photography “Cleopatra.”

2013 Northern Eclecta Creative Writing Journal of the NDSU Dept. of English

Visual Arts: still-life in charcoal “Bacchus and a Bovine.”

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS & GRANTS

Idaho State University, Dept. of History Summer Tuition and Fee Scholarship, May 2015

Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Student Travel Grant, Sept. 2014

Summa Cum Laude, North Dakota State University, 2014

Miles Scholarship, NDSU Office of International Programs, 2013

McNair Scholarship, NDSU 2012-14

American Institute of Building Design Annette Farmer Scholarship, 2011

David C. White Memorial Scholarship, Athens Technical College, 2010-2011

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Association of Pacific Coast Geographers

Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society

Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society

 Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society