Melinda Marie Jetté
Professor of History
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EDUCATION
- B.A., History and French, Catholic University of America, 1991
- M.A., History, Universite Laval, 1996
- Ph.D., History, University of British Columbia, 2004
ACADEMIC PROGRAM
HistoryCOURSES TAUGHT
- Archival Methods
- Historic Preservation
- U.S. History Survey
- European History Survey
- World History Survey
- Latin America
- American Environmental History
- Native American History
- Oral History
- Museum History
- National Parks
- Popular History
- The Civil War
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS
- American West
- Native American History
- French North Americans
- Pacific Northwest History
- Public History
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- American Historical Association
- National Council on Public History
- New England Museum Association
- Oral History Association
- Organization of American Historians
- Western History Association
- Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History
- American Historical Association Annual Meeting
- National Council on Public History Annual Meeting
- Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting
- Western History Association Annual Meeting
- FPU Faculty Development Research Grants, 2011-2019
- FPU Faculty Development Research Grants, 2011-2021
- Academic Standards Committee
- FPU History Department Coordinator
- FPU Public History Program Coordinator
- Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Advisor
- Women in Leadership Steering Committee
- Committee on Environmental Sustainability, National Council on Public History
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2017: Donald J. Sterling Senior Research Fellowship in Pacific Northwest History, Oregon Historical Society
- 2015: Fellow, Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents
- 2011: Joel Palmer Award, Oregon Historical Quarterly
- 2008: Honorable Mention, Joel Palmer Award, Oregon Historical Quarterly
- 1997-2001: University Graduate Fellowship, University of British Columbia
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Books
- Jette, Melinda Marie. At the Hearth of the Crossed Races: A French-Indian Community in Nineteenth-Century Oregon, 1812-1859. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2015.
Book Chapters/Articles
- Jetté, Melinda Marie. Sexuality and Public History.” In The Cambridge World History of Sexualities. Edited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks and Matthew Kuefler. vol. I. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2024.
- Jetté, Melinda Marie “The Frenchman’s Gaze: Pierre de Saint-Amant’s Travels in the Oregon Territory, 1851” Oregon Historical Quarterly 121:2 (Summer 2020): 120-155.
- Jetté, Melinda Marie, guest editor of Queering Public History: The State of the Field. Special issue of The Public Historian 41:2 (May 2019).
- Jetté, Melinda Marie, “Through the Queer Looking-Glass: The Future of LGBTQ Public History,” in Queering Public History: The State of the Field. Special issue of The Public Historian 41:2 (May 2019): 6-18.
- Jette, Melinda Marie and Carol Williams. Forum Introduction: "Gender and Indigenous-Immigrant Encounters and Entanglements." Women's History Review 2018 (forthcoming).
- Jette, Melinda Marie. "Dislodging Oregon's History from its Mythical Mooring: Reflections on Death and the Settling and Unsettling of Oregon." Oregon Historical Quarterly 115:3 (Fall 2014): 444-445.
- Fisher, Andrew and Melinda Marie Jette. "Now You See Them Now You Don't: Chinook Tribal Affairs and the Struggle for Federal Recognition." In Chinookan Peoples of the Lower Columbia River. Edited by Robert T. Boyd, Kenneth M. Ames, and Tony A. Johnson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2013, 288-306.
- Jette, Melinda Marie. "Betwixt and Between the Official Story: Tracing the History and Memory of a Family of French-Indian Ancestry in the Pacific Northwest." Oregon Historical Quarterly 111:2 (Summer 2010): 142-183.
- Jette, Melinda Marie. "'We Have Here Almost Every Religion But Our Own: French-Indian Community Initiatives and Social Relations in French Prairie, Oregon, 1834-1837." Oregon Historical Quarterly 108:2 (Summer 2007): 64-87.
Book Reviews
- Review of A Country Strange and Far: The Methodist Church in the Pacific Northwest, 1834-1918. Michael C. McKenzie. Oregon Historical Quarterly 123:3 (Fall 2023): 360-361.
- Review of Daughters of Aataentsic: Life Stories from Seven Generations. By Kathryn Magee Labelle. In Collaboration with the Wendat/Wandat Women’s Advisory Council. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 41:1 (2022): 200-203.
- Review of Interwoven Lives: Indigenous Mothers of Salish Coast Communities and Peace Weavers: United the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriage. In Oregon Historical Quarterly 121:4 (Winter 2020): 460-462.
- Review of William F. Tolmie at Fort Nisqually: Letters, 1850-1853. Edited by Steve A. Anderson. Oregon Historical Quarterly 122:1 (Spring 2021): 82.
- Review of Defining Métis: Catholic Missionaries and the Idea of Civilization in Northwestern Saskatchewan. In Church History Review 87: 4 (December 2018): 1239-1241.
- Review of Patriots, Prostitutes, and Spies: Women and the Mexican-American War. In Women’s History Review 27:3 (May 2018): 491-492.
- Review of Legal Codes and Talking Trees: Indigenous Women’s Sovereignty in the Sonoran and Puget Sound Borderlands, 1854-1946. In Western Historical Quarterly 48:4 (Winter 2017): 439-440.
- The Settlers’ Empire: Colonialism and State Formation in America’s Old Northwest by Bethel Saler. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 40:3 (2016): 159-161.
- French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest by Jean Barman. Oregon Historical Quarterly 116:2 (Summer 2015): 256-257.
