Department of History
Coor Hall - 4th Floor
Arizona State University
P.O.Box 874302
Tempe, AZ 85287
Phone: 480-965-5778
Fax: 480-965-0310 Department Email: history@asu.edu Advising Email: historyadvisor@asu.edu Graduate Email: Graduate.History@asu.edu
Donald L. Fixico (Shawnee, Sac & Fox, Muscogee Creek and Seminole) is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History. He is a policy historian and ethnohistorian. His work focuses on American Indians, oral history, and the U.S. West. He has published numerous books, Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960 (1986); An Anthology of Western Great Lakes Indian History, ed. (1988); Urban Indians (1991); Rethinking American Indian History, ed. (1997); The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century: Tribal Natural Resources and American Capitalism (1998); The Urban Indian Experience in America (2000); The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: American Indian Studies and Traditional Knowledge (2003); Daily Life of Native Americans in the Twentieth Century (2006); and Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts and Sovereignty, 3 volumes, ed, (forthcoming 2007). Presently, Professor Fixico is completing Osceola: Patriot and Warrior of the Seminoles for Pearson Longman Press in 2008 and he is working on a textbook on American Indian History for Oxford University Press.
Prior to Arizona State University, Professor Fixico was the Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History, CLAS Scholar and founding Director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at University of Kansas. He has received postdoctoral fellowships at UCLA and The Newberry Library, Chicago. Professor Fixico has been a Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Professor at University of California, Berkeley; UCLA; San Diego State University and University of Michigan. He was an Exchange Professor at University of Nottingham, England and Visiting Professor in the John F. Kennedy Institute at the Freie University in Berlin, Germany.
Teaching Interests and Courses
At the undergraduate level, Professor Fixico has taught a survey history of “American Indians Since 1900” and a pro-research seminar for history majors. He has directed independent studies, honor theses for Barrett, The Honors College, and theses at the Arizona State University West Campus. At the graduate level, he has taught seminars on “Federal Indian Policy,” “American Indian History Research Seminar,” and he is scheduled to teach “An Oral History of the American West” in spring 2008. Professor Fixico has directed master’s theses and doctoral dissertations and serves as an advisor to several graduate students. He has been a mentor to students as well as to junior faculty in the Provost’s Mentoring Program.
Professional Service Activities
Professor Fixico has worked on more than a dozen documentaries. In 2000 President Clinton appointed him to the Advisory Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and in 2002 he was the John Rhodes Visiting Professor of Public Policy in the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University. In 2006 the Organization of American Historians awarded a short-term residency award to Professor Fixico to give lectures for two weeks in Japan. Professor Fixico has given lectures nationally and internationally and works with tribes and indigenous organizations.
