Gregg Cantrell

Department of History v  Texas Christian University v  TCU Box 297260 v  Fort Worth, Texas 76129
office phone: (817) 257-7035 v  home phone: (940) 453-9581
e-mail: g.cantrell@tcu.edu v  fax: (817) 257-5650

EDUCATION

Ph.D., History, Texas A&M University, 1988
M.B.A., Management, Texas A&M University, 1980
B.B.A., Management, Texas A&M University, 1979

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Professor of History, and Erma and Ralph Lowe Chair in Texas History, Texas Christian University, 
     2003-present
Professor of History, 2001-present
Associate Professor of History, University of North Texas, 2000-2001
Rupert N. Richardson Professor of History, Hardin-Simmons University, 1998-2000
Summerlee Research Fellow, Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 
     1996-1997
Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University, 1994-1998
Assistant Professor of History, Sam Houston State University, 1988-1994
Lecturer, Texas A&M University, 1986-1987

COURSES TAUGHT

History of the United States (freshman survey, both halves)
Texas History (undergraduate and graduate level)
Western History (undergraduate level)
The Texas Revolutionary Era (undergraduate and graduate level)
The Old South (undergraduate and graduate level)
Civil War and Reconstruction (undergraduate and graduate level)
Independent Studies (on a wide range of topics, undergraduate and graduate level)

EXTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Summerlee Research Fellow, William H. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 1996-1997 academic year.

Recipient, Fellowship for College Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994-1995 academic year.

Summer Seminar Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities ("Southern History and Faulkner's Fiction"), Vanderbilt University, summer 1993.
Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, summer 1990.
Ottis Lock Research Grant, East Texas Historical Association, 1986.

INTERNAL GRANTS

Recipient, UNT Faculty Research Grant for “The Bones of Stephen F. Austin and the Search for a Usable Past in Texas,” Summer 2001 ($5,000).

Research Grant, Sam Houston State University Research Council (on several occasions).

College of Liberal Arts Dissertation Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 1987.

GRADUATE STUDENTS DIRECTED

Kenneth Bridges (doctoral), UNT,  degree awarded May 2004.
Kevin Brady (doctoral), TCU, projected completion date 2007.
Glen S. Ely (masters), TCU, degree awarded 2005.
Ashley Laumen (masters), TCU, degree awarded 2005.
Robin Tippett (masters), TCU, projected completion date 2006.
Tina Cannon (doctoral), TCU, projected completion date 2007.
Ronald Burris (doctoral), TCU, projected completion date 2007.
Joe Grimshaw (doctoral), TCU, projected completion date 2007.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

The History of Texas, 4th ed., coauthored with Robert A. Calvert and Arnoldo De León.  Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson Press, 2007.
Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas, co-edited with Elizabeth Hayes Turner. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007.
Feeding the Wolf:  John B. Rayner and the Politics of Race, 1850-1918.  Wheeling, Illinois: Harlan Davidson Press, 2001.
Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas.  New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999.
Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent.  Champaign-Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES and ESSAYS
“Texas Populism at High Tide: Jerome C. Kearby and the Case of the Sixth Congressional District, 1894,” coauthored with Kristopher B. Paschal,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 109 (July 2005), 30-70
“The Bones of Stephen F. Austin: History and Memory in Progressive-Era Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 108 (October 2004), 145-178.
"Stephen F. Austin: Political and Cultural Mediator," Major Problems in Texas History, Sam Haynes and Cary D. Wintz, eds. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), 104-110.
John B. Rayner: No Outlet on the Road of Hope," The Human Tradition in Texas, Ty Cashion and Jesús F. de la Teja, eds., (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2001), 87-101.
"A Matter of Character: Stephen F. Austin and the Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas, " Southwestern Historical Quarterly 104 (October 2000), 231-61.
"Stephen  F. Austin: Empresario of Texas," Humanities (July/August 1999), 36-39.  
“The Partnership of Stephen F. Austin and Joseph H. Hawkins,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 99 (July 1995), 1-24.
"Whither Sam Houston?  A Review Essay," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 97, (October 1993), 345-57.
"Sam Houston and the Know-Nothings: A Reappraisal," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 96 (January 1993), 326-43.
“‘Dark Tactics’: Black Politics in the 1887 Texas Prohibition Campaign," Journal of American Studies  25 (April 1991), 85-93.  Reprinted in Donald G. Nieman, African-American Life in the Post-Emancipation South, 1861-1900, vol. 6 (Hamden, Conn.: Garland Press, 1993).
"Racial Violence and Reconstruction Politics in Texas, 1867-1868," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 93 (January 1990), 333-55.
"Texas Populists and the Failure of Biracial Politics," coauthored with D. Scott Barton, Journal of Southern History 55 (November 1989), 659-92. Reprinted in Donald G. Nieman, African-American Life in the Post-Emancipation South, 1861-1900, vol. 6 (Hamden, Conn.: Garland Press, 1993)  Also reprinted in William Holmes, ed., Ametican Populism (Lexington, Mass. and Toronto: D.C. Heath, l993), a volume in the series, Problems in American Civilization.
"John B. Rayner: A Study in Black Populist Leadership," Southern Studies 24 (Winter 1985), 432-43.

PUBLICATIONS: REFERENCE WORKS
“Abolition,” “Carpetbaggers and Scalawags,” “Confederate Politics,” “Democratic Party,” “Economy of the South,” “Gettysburg Address,” “Kansas-Nebraska Act,”  “Legacy of the Civil War,” “Abraham Lincoln,” “Louisiana,” “Maryland,” “Medicine,” “Missouri Compromise,” “New Orleans,” and “Oregon,” all in The American Civil War (London: Brown Reference Group, forthcoming).
“Texas,” in Dictionary of American History, forthcoming.
“John Baptis Rayner,” in American National Biography, Vol. 18, John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 220-21.
"Kenneth Rayner," in American National Biography, , Vol. 18, John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 220-22.
“Stephen F. Austin,” in The U.S. and Mexico at War: Nineteenth Century Expansionism and Conflict, Donald S. Frazier, ed. (New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1998), 33-34.
"John Baptis Rayner," in The New Handbook of Texas, (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996) V:461.
"Kenneth Rayner," in Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia, L. Sandy Maisel, ed. (New York: Garland, 1991),912-13.
"Wade Hampton," in Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia, L. Sandy Maisel, ed. (New York: Garland, 1991), 468.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOK REVIEWS
Numerous published reviews, in journals including the American Historical Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, Western Historical Quarterly, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Journal of the Early Republic, The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, and Journal of the West.

WORKS IN PROGRESS
The People’s Revolt: Populism in Texas, book under contract with Yale University Press.

PARTICIPATION IN SCHOLARLY MEETINGS
“What’s New In Texas History:  The State of Texas Historiography on the Fifteenth Anniversary of Texas Through Time,” panel moderator, Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 2006.
“Texas Social History,” session chair, East Texas Historical Association Annual Meeting, Huntsville, Texas, February 2006.
“Black and White Populism in the New South,” session commentator, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2005.
“Struggle for Rights: Black Populists and Texas Suffragists,” session chair, Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, March 2005.
“Writing Texas Textbooks,” panelist, East Texas Historical Association Spring Meeting, Galveston, Texas, February 2005.
“The Farmers’ Alliance and Local Cooperatives in Texas: A Re-examination,” Dallas Area Social Historians, Dallas, Texas, December 2004.
TSHA Academic Powwow, panelist, Albany, Texas, June 2004.
“Anglo Texans and the Road to Revolution,” Battle of San Jacinto Symposium, Houston, Texas, April 2004.
“For Liberty, Democracy and the Constitution: Southern Opposition to Disfranchisement in the 1890s,” session chair, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2004.
“The Urban Revolt: Labor, Race, and Populism in 1890s Dallas,” session chair, Texas State Historican Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 2004.
“Writing the Lives of Texas Revolutionaries: Stephen F. Austin,” Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, El Paso, Texas, March 2003.
”New Looks at Texas Icons: A Roundtable Discussion,” panelist, Western History Association Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 2002.
”The Home Front Becomes the Battlefront: East Texas Military Experiences in the Civil War and Reconstruction,” session chair, East Texas Historical Association Spring Meeting, Texarkana, Texas, February 2002.
“Southern Populism in Black and White,” session chair, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 2001.
“The Challenge of Understanding Stephen F. Austin,” East Texas Historical Association Spring Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, February 2001.
“The Biographer as Detective: Stephen F. Austin as a Case Study,” Western History Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, October 2000.
"In Search of Stephen F. Austin," Keynote Address, Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 1999.
"Stephen F. Austin and the Tejanos, 1821-1836," D.R.T. History Forum, The Alamo, San Antonio, Texas, February 1999.
"Uneasy Neighbors: Tejanos and Texians, 1821-1835," A Symposium on the Early History of the Victoria/Goliad Area, Victoria College, Victoria, Texas, May 1998.
"Stephen F. Austin's View of the Colonists," Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 1995.
"Bi-Racial Politics and White Supremacy in the Post-Reconstruction U.S. South," Session Commentator, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, January 1995.
"Forging a Historical Reputation: The Case of Stephen F. Austin," Keynote Speech, East Texas Historical Association Fall Meeting, Nacogdoches, Texas, September 1993.
"Republican Ideology in the Populist Movement," Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri, September 1991.
"Slaveholder and Nativist: Kenneth Rayner and the Ideology of ‘Americanism’," Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Louisville, Kentucky, April 1991.
"The Farmers' Revolt in Milam County, Texas," Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, March 1991.
"Populism to Progressivism in Milam County, Texas," Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, November 1989.
"Black Leadership in the Progressive Era: J.B. Rayner of Texas," Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas March 1988.
"Violence and Politics in Reconstruction Texas: A Quantitative Approach," History Department Faculty Colloquium, Texas A&M University, October 1986.
"John B. Rayner: Representative of Black Populists," Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, March 1985.

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND HONORS
Recipient, Michael P. Malone Award (best article on state or territorial history), awarded by the Western History Association, 2006, for “The Bones of Stephen F. Austin: History and Memory in Progressive-Era Texas.”
Recipient, H. Bailey Carroll Award (best article of the year in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly), awarded by the Texas State Historical Association, 2005, for “The Bones of Stephen F. Austin: History and Memory in Progressive-Era Texas.” 
Elected to membership, Philosophical Society of Texas, December 2001.
Recipient, Award of Merit, awarded by the American Association for State and Local History, 2001, for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas.
Recipient, Ottis Lock Book Award, awarded by the East Texas Historical Association, 2001, for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas.
Recipient, H. Bailey Carroll Award (best article of the year in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly), awarded by the Texas State Historical Association, 2001, for “A Matter of Character: Stephen F. Austin and the Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas.
Recipient, Philosophical Society of Texas Book Award, for the best book on Texas (fiction or nonfiction), for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, December 2000.
Recipient, T.R. Fehrenbach Award, awarded by the Texas Historical Commission for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, May 2000.
Recipient, Citation of Merit, presented by the Texas Historical Foundation for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, May 2000.
Recipient, Summerfield G. Roberts Award, awarded by the Sons of the Republic of Texas for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, April 2000.
Recipient, Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award, awarded by the Center for American History, University of Texas, for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, March 2000.
Recipient, Presidio La Bahía Award, First Prize, awarded by the Sons of the Republic of Texas and the O'Connor Foundation for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, December 1999.
History Book Club Alternate Selection (Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas), December 1999.
Recipient, Catherine Munson Foster Memorial Award for Literature, awarded by Brazoria County Historical Society for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, November 1999.
Recipient of resolutions passed by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives recognizing achievements as an author and historian, June 1999.
Recipient, H. Bailey Carroll Award (best article of the year in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly), awarded by the Texas State Historical Association, 1996, for "The Partnership of Stephen F. Austin and Joseph H. Hawkins."
Recipient, Phi Alpha Theta Book Award (best first book by a historian in 1993), awarded by Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society, 1994, for Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent.
Recipient, Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Award (best book on Texas History published in 1993), awarded by the Texas State Historical Association, 1994 for Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES
Member, Board of Directors (2005-2007), and Chair of the Finance and Alternatives Committees (2007), Texas State Historical Association.
Member, TCU Press Advisory Board, 2007-2008.
Editor, Texas Biography Series, TCU Press, ongoing.
Speaker, Teaching of History Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, September 2006.
Member, Book Award Committee, Philosophical Society of Texas, 2004.
Member (2003, 2004), and chair (2004), Carroll Award Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
Member (2001, 2002, and chair (2003), Summerfield G. Roberts Book Award Committee, Sons of the Republic of Texas.
Member (2001, 2002), and chair (2003), Bolton-Kinnaird Award Committee, Western History Association. 
Speaker, Teaching of History Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, September 1999.
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, Southern Historical Association, November 1999.
Speaker, Phi Alpha Theta banquet, Texas A&M-Commerce, Commerce, Texas, April 1997.
Speaker, History Graduate Student Association, TCU, Fort Worth, Texas, April 1997.
Speaker, Clements Center Colloquium, SMU, Dallas, Texas, October 1996.
Member (1994-1995) and Chair (1993-1994), Carroll Award Committee, Texas State Historical Association, 1994.
Member, Membership Committee, Southern Historical Association, 1993-1994.
Member (1991-1992, 1993-1994, 2001-2002) and Chair (1992-1993), Program Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
Member, Program Committee, East Texas Historical Association, 1992-1993.
Member, Chamberlain Award Committee, East Texas Historical Association, 1991.
Referee, numerous article manuscripts for Southwestern Historical Quarterly and Journal of Southern History.
Referee, numerous book manuscripts and proposals for presses including Yale University Press, Texas State Historical Association, and University of North Texas Press.

DEPARTMENTAL, COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
     	At Texas Christian University I serve on the department graduate committee, the University Council, and AddRan Advisory Committee.  I perform a variety of services in support of the programs of the Center for Texas Studies, including teaching an Extended Education class on the Texas Revolution (February 2004) and escorting a weekend-long trip to Texas historic sites.  I chaired the Women’s History Faculty Search Committee (2005-2006).  I am a member of the University Council (2005-2006).
	At the University of North Texas I served as departmental faculty secretary (2000-2001), as a member and chair of the departmental undergraduate committee (2001-2003), as a member of the departmental executive committee (2002-2003), and as a member of the African-American (2000-2001) and New South (2001-2002) search committees.  I served as coordinator of the annual Teaching of History Conference for three years:  2001, 2002, 2003.
	At Hardin-Simmons I served  as director of graduate studies for the History Department and on various departmental committees.  
	At Sam Houston State University I served on numerous committees, including the university library committee, honors convocation committee, faculty grievance committee, and College of Arts & Sciences curriculum committee.  I was also a member of the statewide steering committee that planned the celebration of Gen.  Sam Houston's 200th Birthday.  At the departmental level, I served on the curriculum committee, needs committee, policy committee, and textbook committee.  I served as faculty advisor for Phi Alpha Theta for six years.  

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Speaker, Dallas Heritage Village Chautauqua Series, “Lone Star Pasts: The Conversation,” Dallas, Texas, September 2007.
Speaker, Center for Texas Studies teacher workshop, Albany, Texas, August 2007.
Speaker, FacultySpeak Lecture Series, Friends of the TCU Library, Fort Worth, Texas, April 2007.
Speaker, Center for Texas Studies teacher workshop, White Settlement, Texas, August 2006.
Speaker, Friends of the Lancaster Library, Lancaster, Texas, February 2005.
Speaker, Museum of American Architecture and Decorative Arts Annual Friends’ Luncheon, Houston, Texas, February 2005.
Speaker, Amon Carter Museum Docents group, Fort Worth, Texas, August 2004.
 Instructor, TCU Extended Education class, “The Texas Revolution,” February 2004 (including weekend trip to San Antonio, Goliad, San Jacinto, and Austin).
Keynote Speaker, U.S. History TAKS Institute, sponsored by Texas Education Agency Social Studies Center, Austin, Texas, June 2003.
Keynote Speaker, U.S. History TAKS Institute, sponsored by Texas Education Agency Social Studies Center, San Antonio, Texas, April 2003.
Speaker, “Stephen F. Austin,” Rosenberg Library Spring Lecture Series, Galveston, Texas, March 2003.
Keynote Speaker, U.S. History TAKS Institute, sponsored by Texas Education Agency Social Studies Center, Houston, Texas, March 2003.
Speaker, Peters Colony Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Denton, Texas, February 2003.
Speaker, Richardson ISD Teacher In-Service, January 2003.
Speaker, Plano ISD Teacher In-Service, August 2002.
Keynote Speaker, U.S. History TAKS Institute, sponsored by Texas Education Agency Social Studies Center, Austin, Texas, July 2002.
Keynote Speaker and Breakout Session Speaker, U.S. History TAKS Institute, sponsored by Texas Education Agency Social Studies Center, San Antonio, Texas, March 2002.
Speaker, Richardson ISD Teacher In-Service, February 2002.
Member, Advisory Committee for Texas Education Agency Social Studies Center’s U.S. History TAKS Institute, 2002.
Keynote Speaker, “Magnificent Schemes for Texas: Stephen F. Austin and His World,” symposium at 	Star of the Republic Museum, Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, November 2001.
Speaker, Denton ISD Teacher In-Service, November 2001.
Speaker, Austin Woman’s Club, Austin, Texas, October 2001.
Keynote Speaker, Teaching of History Conference, University of North Texas, September 2001.
Speaker, Fort Worth Chapter, Westerners International, Fort Worth, Texas, April 2001.
Speaker, Scholarship Luncheon, Ferdinand Lindheimer Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, New Braunfels, Texas, March 2001.
Featured Speaker, Blinn College Endowed Lecture Series, Bryan, Texas, February 2001.
Speaker, Governor’s Mansion Docents Association annual banquet, Austin, Texas, January 2001.
Speaker, English-Speaking Union, Austin Chapter, Austin, Texas, October 2000.
Panelist, “Literary Lone Stars,” Euless Public Library, September 2000.
Speaker, Austin-Bryan-Perry Family Reunion, Brazoria, Texas, June 2000.
Speaker, Texas Historical Commission Annual Awards Banquet, San Antonio, Texas, June 2000.
Speaker, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Abilene Chapter, April 2000.
Speaker, Friends of the Abilene Public Library, April 2000.
Speaker, Abilene Book Group, three times in February and March, 2000.
Keynote Speaker, Siege of Béxar Luncheon, Alamo Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, San Antonio, Texas, December 1999.
Speaker, Brazoria County Historical Museum, Angleton, Texas, December 1999.
Speaker, Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, Texas, November 1999.
Participant, "Mighty Men: Three Biographies" panel discussion, Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, November 1999.
Speaker, Clements Center-DeGolyer Library Lecture Series, Southern Methodist University, October 1999.
Speaker, Moses Austin Chapter, Sons of the Republic of Texas, Austin, Texas, October 1999.
Speaker, Hardin-Simmons Retired Faculty Fellowship, Abilene, Texas, April 1999.
Speaker, Winedale Spring Symposium, Winedale Historical Center, Winedale, Texas, March 1999.
Speaker, Austin Elementary School Fourth Grade Classes, Abilene, Texas, February 1999.
Speaker, Abilene Downtown Rotary Club, Abilene, Texas, September,1998.
Speaker, Stephen F. Austin Memorial Park Dedication, Austinville, Virginia, November 1997.
Speaker, Texas History Day, St. Thomas University, Houston, Texas, April 1997.
Speaker, Stephen F. Austin Death Site Dedication, West Columbia, Texas, November 1995.
Speaker, Brazoria County Historical Society, Angleton, Texas, November 1995.  
Speaker, ElderHostel, Livingston, Texas, October 1995.
Speaker, Descendants of Austin's Old Three Hundred, Rockdale, Texas, October 1995.
Speaker, Austin-Bryan-Perry Family Reunion, Brazoria, Texas, June 1994.
Researcher, Historical Marker Committee, City of Huntsville, 1993.
Speaker, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Huntsville, Texas, October 1993.
Speaker, Old Forts and Missions Restoration Association, Huntsville, Texas, April 1993.
Member, Advisory Board, Sam Houston Memorial Museum, 1989-1992.
Member, Scholarhip Committee, Scottish Heritage Foundation, 1989-1992.
Speaker, SHSU College Democrats, October 1992.
Speaker, Brazos Valley Civil War Roundtable, College Station, Texas, September 1992.
Speaker, Descendants of Austin's Old Three Hundred, Richmond, Texas, June 1992.  
Speaker, Sam Houston Teachers' Academy, Huntsville, Texas, June 1992.
Speaker, Walker County Historical Commission, Huntsville, Texas, December 1991.
Speaker, Daughters of American Colonists, Huntsville, Texas, October 1991.
Speaker, James Gillaspie Camp, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Huntsville, Texas, February 1991.
 Speaker, Spring Lecture Series, Scottish Heritage Foundation, Houston, Texas, April 1990,
 Speaker, Huntsville AARP, Huntsville, Texas, March 1990.
Speaker, Commencement Exercises, Trinity High School, Trinity, Texas, May 1989.
I was a member of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Community Columnist Panel in 2005, and I continue to write occasional op-ed pieces for the paper.  I have published Op-Ed pieces on Sam Houston in the Houston Chronicle and Austin American-Statesman (February and March, 1993), and a feature article on Stephen F. Austin in Texas Highways (November 1993). I was historical consultant and was interviewed on-screen for the History Channel documentary, Texas: Big America (July 2004); and for the documentary, Remember the Alamo, in the American Experience series (February 2004).  (I was also a consultant for an episode of A&E's The Real West and was interviewed on screen for the episode (September 1993), for the Stephen F. Austin exhibit at the Bob Bullock State History Museum in Austin (1998).  In 2007 I was featured guest on the KERA-radio noon talk show “Think.”  During 1999 I was interviewed by the Dallas Morning News, Houston Post, Wall Street Journal, KBTX-TV in Bryan, KHOU-TV in Houston, and CNN.  In 1998 I was interviewed on-air for news broadcasts of KRBC-TV and KTAB-TV in Abilene.  During the fall of 1999 I appeared on "Book Talk," KWKC-radio, Abilene; "Austin at Issue," KLRU-TV, Austin; "The Glen Mitchell Show," KERA-radio, Dallas; "The Morning Report," KTBC-TV, Austin; "Conversations," Irving Community Television Network, Irving, Texas.  The panel discussion that I participated in at the Texas Book Festival was carried on C-Span.  I have given lectures at bookstore booksignings in Dallas, Fort Worth, Richardson, Arlington, San Angelo, Lubbock, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and College Station.  I perodically serve as a consultant for Prudential Intercultural Services in their executive relocation program.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Texas State Historical Association
Southern Historical Association
Western History Association
East Texas Historical Association

AWARDS AND HONORS
Recipient, Michael P. Malone Award (best article on state or territorial history), awarded by the Western History Association, 2005, for “The Bones of Stephen F. Austin: History and Memory in Progressive Era Texas.”
Recipient, H. Bailey Carroll Award (best article of the year in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly), awarded by the Texas State Historical Association, 2001, for “The Bones of Stephen F. Austin: History and Memory in Progressive Era Texas.”
Elected to membership, Philosophical Society of Texas, December 2001.
Recipient, Award of Merit, awarded by the American Association for State and Local History, 2001, for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas.
Recipient, Ottis Lock Book Award, awarded by the East Texas Historical Association, 2001, for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas.
Recipient, UNT Faculty Research Grant for “The Bones of Stephen F. Austin and the Search for a Usable Past in Texas,” Summer 2001 ($5,000).
Recipient, H. Bailey Carroll Award (best article of the year in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly), awarded by the Texas State Historical Association, 2001, for “A Matter of Character: Stephen F. Austin and the Papers Concerning Robertson’s Colony in Texas.”
Recipient, Philosophical Society of Texas Book Award, for the best book on Texas (fiction or nonfiction), for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, December 2000.
Recipient, T.R. Fehrenbach Award, awarded by the Texas Historical Commission for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, May 2000.
Recipient, Citation of Merit, presented by the Texas Historical Foundation for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, May 2000.
Recipient, Summerfield G. Roberts Award, awarded by the Sons of the Republic of Texas for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, April 2000.
Recipient, Miss Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award, awarded by the Center for American History, University of Texas, for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, March 2000.
Recipient, Presidio La Bahía Award, First Prize, awarded by the Sons of the Republic of Texas and the O'Connor Foundation for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, December 1999.
History Book Club Alternate Selection (Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas), December 1999.
Recipient, Catherine Munson Foster Memorial Award for Literature, awarded by Brazoria County Historical Society for Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas, November 1999.
Recipient of resolutions passed by the Texas Senate and House of Representatives recognizing achievements as an author and historian, June 1999.
Summerlee Research Fellow, William H. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, 1996-1997 academic year.
Recipient, H. Bailey Carroll Award (best article of the year in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly), awarded by the Texas State Historical Association, 1996, for "The Partnership of Stephen F. Austin and Joseph H. Hawkins."
Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994-1995 academic year.
Recipient, Phi Alpha Theta Book Award (best first book by a historian in 1993), awarded by Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society, 1994, for Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent.
Recipient, Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Award (best book on Texas History published in 1993), awarded by the Texas State Historical Association, 1994 for Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent.
Summer Seminar Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities ("Southern History and Faulkner's Fiction"), Vanderbilt University, summer 1993.
Research Grant, Sam Houston State University Research Council (on several occasions).
Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, summer 1990.
College of Liberal Arts Dissertation Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 1987.
Ottis Lock Research Grant, East Texas Historical Association, 1986.

REFERENCES
Dr. Dale T. Knobel, President
Denison University
Office of the President
100 W. College St.
Granville, OH 43023 (ph. 740-587-6281)

Dr. John B. Boles, William P. Hobby Professor of History 
      and Managing Editor, Journal of Southern History
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251 (ph. 713-527-6039)

Dr. Randolph B. Campbell, Regents Professor
Department of History
University of North Texas
P.O. Box 310650
Denton, TX 76203-0650 (ph. 940-565-3402)

Dr. James S. Olson, Distinguished Professor and Chair
Department of History
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX 77341 (ph. 936-294-1475)

Dr. David J. Weber
Dedman Professor of History and Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750176
Dallas, TX 75275-0176 (ph. 214-768-3684)

Dr. Walter L. Buenger, Chair and Professor of History
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843 (ph. 409-845-7151)