Abbreviated C.V.

View my full CV here: (PDF, July 2022)

Education and Experience

  • Assistant/Associate Professor, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University, 2015–present

  • Co-Director of ASU Public History, 2017-19

  • Assistant/Associate Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2007-2015

  • Ph.D. (2007), History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

  • M.A. (2002), B.A. (2000), History, University of Nevada–Las Vegas

Selected Publications

  • Seeing Underground: Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in America. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2014; paperback, 2016).

    Winner of the Mining History Association’s 2015 Clark C. Spence Award for the best scholarly book on mining history published 2013-2014.

  • “Portrait of an Emerging Profession: A Microdata Look at Mining Engineering in America in 1880,” Mining History Journal 29 (2022): accepted for publication.

  • Eric C. Nystrom and David S. Tanenhaus, “‘Our Most Sacred Legal Commitments:’ A Digital Exploration of the U.S. Supreme Court Defining Who We Are and How They Should Opine,” University of Cincinnati Law Review 89, no. 4 (May 2021): 832-881. https://scholarship.law.uc.edu/uclr/vol89/iss4/2/

  • “Oral History and Mining History,” foreword to One Shot for Gold: Developing a Modern Mine in Northern California (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2021), xi-xviii.

  • “Neon Hal-storiography: Hal Rothman and Las Vegas,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 63, nos. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2020): 157-160.

  • Brian James Leech and Eric C. Nystrom, “Surveying the Minds: New Trends and Key Classics in Mining History,” Mining History Journal 27 (2020): 40-54.

  • Linda L. Berger and Eric C. Nystrom, “A Rhetorical-Computational Analysis of Justice Antonin Scalia’s ‘Remarkable Influence’: The Unexpected Importance of Deceptively Unanimous and Contested Majority Opinions,” Journal of Appellate Practice and Process 20, no. 2 (Fall 2019): 233-325. https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/appellatepracticeprocess/vol20/iss2/5/

  • “Witnessing the Alaska Gold Rush: Finding Mining History in Court Records,” Mining History Journal 26 (2019): 21-34. https://mininghistoryassociation.org/Journal/MHJ-v26-2019-Nystrom.pdf

  • Eric C. Nystrom and Penelope Adams Moon, “A Case Study of Virtual Archives for Scholarship and Training,” Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 15, no. 4 (2019): 217-239. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1550190619888921

  • David S. Tanenhaus and Eric C. Nystrom, “Pursuing Gault,” Nevada Law Journal 17, no. 2 (2017): 351-370. Authors’ version: https://law.unlv.edu/nevada-law-journal/vol17/pursuing-gault-1704

  • Eric C. Nystrom and David S. Tanenhaus, “The Future of Digital Legal History: No Magic, No Silver Bullets,” American Journal of Legal History 56, no. 1 (March 2016): 139-156. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajlh/njv017

  • David S. Tanenhaus and Eric C. Nystrom, “‘Let’s Change the Law’: Arkansas and the Puzzle of Juvenile Justice Reform in the 1990s,” Law and History Review 34, no. 4 (Nov. 2016): 957-997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0738248016000341

  • Eric C. Nystrom and David S. Tanenhaus, “Two Humanists Exploring Together: or, A View from the Weeds,” Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History: Journal of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History 24 (2016): 339-340. http://dx.doi.org/10.12946/rg24/339-340

  • Eric Nystrom and Ronald M. James, “Mining and Nevada: An Entwined History,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 57, nos. 3-4 (Fall/Winter 2014): 160-176. [2015] http://epubs.nsla.nv.gov/statepubs/epubs/210777-2014fallwinter.pdf

  • “Underground Mine Maps & the Development of the Butte System at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” IA: Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology 37, Nos. 1 and 2 (2011): 97-113. [2014] http://www.jstor.org/stable/23757911

    Winner of the Society for Industrial Archeology’s 2015 Robert Vogel Prize for best journal article.

  • “In the Aftermath of Tragedy: Herschel Wence and the 1925 City Mine Disaster, Sullivan Co., Indiana,” Mining History Journal 21 (2014): 22-29. http://mininghistoryassociation.org/Journal/MHJ-v21-2014-Nystrom.pdf

  • “‘Brilliant Contingency of Legal Talent and Mining Experts’: A Tonopah Apex Lawsuit, 1914-1918,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 54 (2011): 101-125. [2013] http://epubs.nsla.nv.gov/statepubs/epubs/210777-2011.pdf

  • “Authority and Visual Culture in American Mining Technology, 1860-1920,” in Mining Perspectives: Proceedings of the 8th International Mining History Congress, 2009 ed. by Peter Claughton and Catherine Mills (Truro: Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site / University of Stirling, 2011), 84-91.

  • “Underground Photography and American Mining Before 1920,” Mining History Journal 17 (2010): 103-126. http://mininghistoryassociation.org/Journal/MHJ-v17-2010-Nystrom.pdf

    Winner of the Mining History Association’s 2010 John M. Townley Award for best journal article.

  • “‘Without Doubt the Most Accurate’: Underground Surveying and the Development of Mining Engineering in the Pennsylvania Anthracite Region,” Pennsylvania Legacies 9, no. 2 (Nov. 2009): 20-25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27765171

  • “A Grand Galaxy of Talent: Lawyers, Experts, and Models in a Tonopah Mining Lawsuit, 1914-1918,” in Boomtown History II: Celebration of Nye County Boomtowns ed. by Jean Johnson (Amargosa, NV: Nevada Boomtown History Event, 2007), 87-119.

  • “Miner, Minstrel, Memory: Or, Why the Smithsonian Has Bill Keating’s Pants,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 131, no. 1 (Jan. 2007): 81-102. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20093917

  • “Mapping Underground Drifton: The Evolution of Anthracite Mine Maps,” Canal History and Technology Proceedings 25 (2006): 79-96.

  • From Neglected Space to Protected Place: An Administrative History of Mojave National Preserve. Los Angeles: GPO, March 2003. Great Basin CESU Cooperative Agreement H8R0701001. https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/moja/adhi.htm

  • “Labor Strife in the Desert: the Union Pacific Railroad Shopmen’s Strike of 1922 in Las Vegas,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 44, no. 4 (2001): 313-332. http://epubs.nsla.nv.gov/statepubs/epubs/210777-2001-4Winter.pdf

Digital History Projects and Public Datasets

  • I created, developed, and maintain 9CHRIS: The 9th Circuit Historical Records Index System, which serves as a resource to help historians and researchers find and use historic records and briefs of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, dating from the 1890s to the 1960s. (2013–)

  • Project Creator/Director, “Martha Taylor Howard Digitized Papers,” National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House, (2017-2018) Version 1.0 released December 2018.

  • Ronald M. James, Kenneth H. Fliess, and Eric Nystrom, Nevada Census Microdata, 1860-1920, Harvard Dataverse Network [Distributor], (1991–2014). Current version: v2, released Dec. 31, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/27218

  • Eric C. Nystrom and David S. Tanenhaus, Connecting U.S. Supreme Court Case Information and Opinion Authorship (SCDB) to Full Case Text Data (CAP), 1791-2011 [Data set]. Zenodo (December 18, 2020): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4344917

  • David S. Tanenhaus and Eric C. Nystrom, Classification of Culture and Process in U.S. Supreme Court Language, 1793-2011 [Data set]. Zenodo (November 18, 2020): https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4279859

  • Eric C. Nystrom and Brian James Leech, Historians’ Perspectives of the Importance and Impact of Mining History Scholarship [Data set]. Zenodo (July 1, 2020): http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3926826

  • Linda L. Berger and Eric C. Nystrom, Classification of majority opinions and headnotes written by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia [Data set]. Zenodo (May 19, 2020): http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3333948

Professional Societies and Service

I am editor of the book series Mining and Society, which I developed with the University of Nevada Press. We seek scholarly manuscripts on the interplay between mining and societies in all places and time periods. For more information, or to discuss a manuscript, please see the series webpage or contact me directly: eric.nystrom@asu.edu.

I was elected 2021-22 President of the Mining History Association, and have served that organization in a number of other roles, including Newsletter Editor from 2007-2015, and a member of the Research Grants Committee since 2010 (please apply!).

In 2022 I joined the editorial board of the Journal of Australasian Mining History. I also currently serve on the Finance Committee for the National Council on Public History, the Public History Committee for the Western History Association, and the Board of the Coordinating Committee for History in Arizona.

I was a Trustee of the National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House from 2014-2020, with involvement with the museum in other capacities from 2008. I served on the steering committee for the museum’s long range strategic plan development. This small, professional museum preserves and interprets the longtime Rochester, NY home of famed equal rights advocate Susan B. Anthony. The house itself is a National Historic Landmark.

Digital Tools and Scripts