Ellis book, essay nominated for awards

Two recent publications by Clyde Ellis, associate professor of history, have been nominated for scholarly awards. Details...

Ellis’ most recent book, “The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns” has been nominated for the Society of Humanistic Anthropology’s Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing.

His most recently published essay, “‘There Is No Doubt The Dances Should be Curtailed’: Indian Dances and Federal Policy on the Southern Plains, 1880-1930,” has been nominated for the Western History Association’s Arrell M. Gibson Prize for the best essay on American Indians in a scholarly journal.