(Current, Fall Semester 2007)
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
M.A., History, The
B.A., Economics,
Program”)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Texas A&M-Commerce (formerly
Ph.D. Fellow,
Economic Forecasting Consultant,
1991-1992: Provided consultation
for
Contel of Texas, Inc., February 1980-December 1990: Held several positions as a business
manager and executive. Among duties
and responsibilities: supervision
of economic growth forecasts driving a $45 million annual budget for roughly
200 publicly regulated telephone exchanges; the preparation and presentation of
annual economic reports and various special reports to Division, Region, and
Corporate staffs; conception and coordination of programs for territorial
acquisitions, service improvement, and community development
BOOKS
The New Frontier: A Contemporary History
of
Chapter in Kenneth L. Untiedt, ed., Inside
the Classroom (and Out): How We Learn through Folklore: “Seeing Red over Varsity Blues.”
Sam Houston State University: An
Institutional Memory, 1879-2004, foreword by
Dan Rather; afterword by President James F. Gaertner.
The
Human Tradition in Texas. Co-edited with Jesus F. de la Teja.
Foreword in
Edgar Rye, The Quirt & the Spur: Vanishing Shadows of the
Pigskin
Pulpit: A Social History of
A
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
Monograph, “Will
Western History Ride Again?” & Other Tales of Texas and Regional
Identity.
When the study of
western American history in the 1990s became caught in a debate over whether it
represents successive frontiers or a distinct region,
JOURNAL ARTICLES
& OTHER PUBLISHED WORKS
“What’s the Matter with
“Three R’s and the Hickory
Stick on the Texas Frontier.”
“Under
Autumn Skies: Gary Gaines,” chapter in The Human Tradition in Texas,
“Coahuila y Texas,” (encyclopedia entry) The United States and Mexico at War:
Nineteenth-Century Expansionism and Conflict, Donald S. Frazier, et.
al.
“Resurrecting the Western Hero: The
Case of James A. Brock.”
“Rewriting the Wild West for a New
History.” Journal
of the West, 34, no. 4
(Oct. 1995): 54-60.
“(Gun)Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: A
Revisionist Look at ‘Violent’
“Remembering the Big 33,”
Sound Historian: The Oral History Journal of
“Life on Government Hill:
book, 70 (1994):
113-125.
Contributor to Resource Manual, Norton, et. al., A People & a Nation, 4th ed.
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Produced op-ed and variety articles; Houston Chronicle; Huntsville Item; Port Arthur News; Wichita Falls Times-Record; Commerce Journal.
Speeches to civic groups (such as Lions, Rotary, and Kiwanis Clubs
and Westerners Corrals).
Featured speaker at American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas, and
lecture series at TCU, Fort Worth; Rosenburg Library, Galveston; Austin College, Sherman.
Phi Alpha Theta speaker at Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Stephen F. Austin,
Sam Houston, and UH-Downtown.
TCU, Ben Procter Scholarship, Committee member
BOOK REVIEWS
Anne H. Sutherland, The
Robertsons, The Sutherlands, and the Making of
Howard J. Erlichman, Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering
Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas. Centennial Series of the Association of
Former Students, Texas A&M University, no. 105. (College Station: Texas A&M University
Press, 2006. xi + 284 pp. 16 maps, notes, index), New Mexico
Historical Review, forthcoming.
Gary Clayton Anderson, The
Conquest of
Charles H., Harris III and Louis R. Sadler,
The
Pace, Robert, and
Donald S. Frazier, Frontier
DeArment, Robert
K., Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of
James L. Haley, Sam Houston (
David LaVere,
Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory (
Light T. Cummins,
Jim Dent, The Junction Boys (New
York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999); Sound Historian: The Oral History
Journal of Texas (1999)
Hal K. Rothman, ed., Reopening the American West (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998); Journal of the West (October 1999)
Patrick Dearen, Crossing Rio
Harwood Hinton, ed., Afoot and Alone (Austin: The Book Club of Texas, 1996);
Gerald Saxon, Transitions: A Centennial History of the
Coy F. Cross
Robert Wooster, ed., Recollections of
James O. Breeden, ed., A Long Ride in
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Texas State Historical Association, June
17, 2004; roundtable: “The Western Experience in
Texas State Historical Association, March
9, 2002; commentator: “Officers and Chaplains in the Frontier
Army.”
East Texas Historical Association, February
23, 2002; chair/commentator: “Poor Farms, Oil Wells, and Airfields:
Changes Come to
American Studies Association of
Western History Association, San Antonio,
October 14, 2000; “Texas in the Western Experience.”
East Texas Historical Association,
Texas Folklore Society,
West Texas Historical Association,
Southwest Social Science Association,
East Texas Historical Association,
Texas State Historical Association,
West Texas Historical Association,
East Texas Historical Association,
West Texas Historical Association,
Texas State Historical Association,
West Texas Historical Association, Canyon,
Texas State Historical Association,
West Texas Historical Association,
Mosaic of Texas Culture,
West Texas Historical Association,
Western Historical Association,
Southwest Social Science Association,
Western History Association,
Southwest Social Science Association,
GRANTS & AWARDS
Member, Texas Institute of Letters, 2007
Texas A&M University-Commerce, Applied Faculty Research Grant,
1997-1998
Rupert N. Richardson Award for “Best Book” in
Grant, National Endowment for the
Humanities to support publication of A
Texas Frontier
Contributing essayist in Journal of the West, “Best Issue,” 1995
First Prize, “Best Graduate
Paper,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference,
First Prize, “Best Paper Overall
,” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference,
First Prize, “Best Paper, American
History,” Southwest Social Science Association, 61st Annual
Meeting,
“Special Award,” E. C.
Barksdale National Essay Competition,
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Book Review Editor,
Editorial Board, Sound Historian: The Oral History Journal of Texas, 1997-present
Program
Chair for Spring 2006 meeting
President,
2002-2003
Vice
President, 2001-2002
Second
Vice-President, 2000-2001
Resolutions
Committee, chairman, 2000-2001
Endowment
Committee, 2000-2001
Board
of Directors,, 1997-2000
Membership
Committee, 1996-present
Program
Committee, 1997, 1999
H-Texas (internet group), Advisory Board,
1997-present
National History Day Director,
N.E.H. Grant Advisor,
Manuscript Referee: Texas A&M Press, University of
Nebraska Press, University of Oklahoma Press, University of Texas Press, and
Texas Tech University Press; Pearson Longman Press
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Organized Research & Sponsored Programs Committee
President’s Committee on Academic
Culture
President’s Committee on FM 980
Development
Athletic Council
Visitors’/
Advisor, Sigma
Tau Gamma Fraternity (ΣΤΓ)
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS Present & Past
Western Historical Association
Western Writers of
Southern Historical Association
Phi Alpha Theta National Honor Society of
Historians