Susan Wade

Education

• Degree Program: PhD, History, 2020
• MA, History, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2011
• BA, Anthropology, McGill University, 1989

Courses Taught

• AIS 203 - Western Great Lakes American Indian Life of the Past
• AIS 262 - North American Indian History to 1887
• HIST 152 - American History 1877 to the Present
• HIST 262 - North American Indian History to 1887
• HIST 287 - History of Vietnam
• Anishinaabemowin (Michigan State University)

Research Interests

• Native American/First Nations
• Food History
• Great Lakes
• Fur Trade

Presentations

• "Ezhi-Ganawendamang Gidakiimnaan" (How We Protect Our World) A-Teg. -2018 Conference, Sault Ste Marie, Michigan
• “Perspectives from Ganawandemaw: Protection of Language Revitalization and Language Ideologies in the Great Lakes Region.” – Algonquin Conference, 2017, Montreal, Canada.
• “The Expansion of Maple Sugar in the American Midwest” American Society for Ethnohistory, 2016 Conference, Nashville, TN.
• “J. William Trygg, The Wisconsin Land Survey, and the Indian Claims Commission" Conference of the Western History Association, 2016. St. Paul, Minnesota.
• “Indigenous Place Names and J. William Trygg Composite Maps” Algonquin Conference, 2016, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• “Emergency Preparedness Planning.” Wisconsin Federation of Museums, Nov. 11, 2013.
• “Maple Sugar and the “Family Economy: The Ojibwe from Bad River, Wisconsin.” – American Society for Ethnohistory, 2011 Conference, Pasadena, California.
• “Ojibwe Women as Producers of a Great Lakes Commodity, 1800-1842.” – American Society for Ethnohistory, 2010 Conference, Ottawa, Canada.