CURRICULUM VITAE

Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III

 

Professor of History                                                                                                                                    

Sam Houston State University                                                                                                                                     

P.O. BOX 2239                                                                                                                                                                 

Huntsville, TX   77341-2239

(936) 294-1482

 

THESIS:                         “Making Saints:  Religion and the Popularizing of the British Army at Home, 1809-1885”

 

EDUCATION:               1989-1993:  Ph.D. University of Iowa

                                        1987-1988:  M.A. History, Texas A&M University

                                        1983-1987:  B.A. History, Texas A&M University

                                        Foreign Languages:  German, French

 

PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:                         Making Saints:  Religion and the Popular Image of the British Army at Home, 1809-1885, (Madison, New Jersey:  1998).

                                       

                                        A Historical Dictionary of the Darwin Controversies, (Athens:  2005). With Glenn Sanford. 

 

BOOK

CHAPTERS:                  “The Second Texas Revolution:  from Cotton to Genetics and the Information Age” in John Storey and Mary Kelley, eds., Twentieth Century Texas: a Social and Cultural History, (UNT Press Denton, Texas: forthcoming in 2007).  With Glenn Sanford.

 

PEER REVIEWED

ARTICLES:                   “A Kinder, Gentler British Army:  Mid-Victorian Experiments in the Management of Army Vice at Gibraltar and Aldershot” in War & Society, xiv, 2, (October, 1996).

 

“Winning the Troops for Vital Religion:  Female Evangelical Missionaries to the British Army, 1857-1880” in Armed Forces and Society, xxiii, 4, (Summer 1997).

                                       

                                        “Victorian Military Politics of Establishment and Religious Liberty:  William H. Rule and the Introduction of Wesleyan Methodism into the British Army, 1856-1882” in War & Society, xvii, 2, (October, 1999).

 

“Grove, William Robert."  Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists.  Ed. Bernard Lightman.  Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, vol. 2, pp 854-857.  With Glenn Sanford. 

 

“Whewell, William."  Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists.  Ed. Bernard Lightman.  Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004, vol. 4, pp. 2139-2145.  With Glenn Sanford.

 

“Historical Method and the Intelligent Design Movement:  IDM as a Foray in Secularization Theory”, in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, vol. 57, 4, (December, 2005), 284-91.

 

“Historical Method and the Intelligent Design Movement:  A Historical Critique of a Historical Critique”, in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, vol. 57, 4, (December, 2005), 292-99.

 

NON-PEER REVIEWED

ARTICLES

“The Big Problem with History:  Christianity and the Crisis of Meaning”, in Historically Speaking:  the Bulletin of the Historical Society, vol. VII, 4, (March/April 2006), 25-7.

 

“Truth and Unintended Consequences:  History suggests stem cell research will have unexpected results”, in Science and Theology News, vol. 6, 10, (June 2006), 25-6.

 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

October 1996 Western Section of the North American Conference on British Studies, Colorado Springs, “Female Evangelical Missionaries to the Victorian British Army”

 

March 2004 Christianity and the Soul of the University, Baylor University, “Historical Method and the Intelligent Design Movement”

 

September 2006, Conference on Faith and History, Shawnee, OK, “History’s Problem:  the Crisis of Meaning, Or Why More Conservatives Ought to be Doing Social History”

 

EXPERIENCE:               August, 2000 to present:  Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University

                                                Awarded tenure August 2000

                                                From August 2006 Director of History Graduate Studies (MA)

Undergraduate courses taught:

Methods of History

Britain from the Romans to the Stuarts

Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the Present

History of Science and Medicine

Honors Seminar on the Cultural Impact of Darwin and Darwinianism

20th Century World Crisis

American History Survey, Parts I & II

World Civilization Survey, Parts I & II

Graduate Courses Taught:

Readings in British Imperialism

 

 

                                        June, 1994-August 2000:  Assistant Professor of History, Sam Houston State University

Undergraduate courses taught:

Methods of History

Britain from the Romans to the Stuarts

Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the Present

20th Century World Crisis

American History Survey, Parts I & II

World Civilization Survey, Parts I & II

Graduate Courses Taught:

Readings in British Imperialism

 

SERVICE:                       Departmental

                                                Search Committee Chair for Searches in 2004, 2005, 2006 and for the Spring 2007.

                                                Honors American Survey Instructor 1997-2003

                                                MA Graduate Studies Director 2006-Present