Gregg
Cantrell
Curriculum
Vitae
Department of History
v Texas Christian University
v TCU Box 297260
Fort Worth, Texas 76129 v office phone: (817) 257-7035 v home phone: (817) 266-6604
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, University
of North Texas, 2001-2003
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)
Reading Seminar in U.S. History
to 1877 (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
Michael Green (doctoral), TCU,
projected completion date 2015.
Brooke Wibracht (doctoral), TCU,
projected completion date 2015.
Bob Oliver (masters), projected
completion date, 2014.
Jeff Wells (doctoral), TCU,
projected completion date 2014.
Ronald Burris II (doctoral), TCU,
projected completion date 2014.
Jensen Branscombe (doctoral),
TCU, degree awarded, December 2013.
Brennan Gardner Rivas (masters),
TCU, degree awarded, May 2013.
Kevin Brady (doctoral), TCU,
degree awarded December 2009.
Mary Fehler Knarr (doctoral), TCU, degree awarded May 2009.
Tina Cannon (doctoral), TCU,
degree awarded May 2009.
Christopher Draper (masters),
TCU, degree awarded December 2008.
Glen S. Ely (masters), TCU,
degree awarded 2005.
Robin Tippett
Sager (masters), TCU, degree awarded 2006.
Ashley Laumen
(masters), TCU, degree awarded 2005.
Kenneth Bridges (doctoral), UNT,
degree awarded May 2004.
MEMBERSHIP
ON OTHER THESIS AND DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Jessica Parker Moore (dissertation,
projected graduation 2014)
Rebekah Crowe (dissertation, degree
awarded 2013)
David Grua (dissertation, degree
awarded 2013)
Amanda Bresie (dissertation,
degree awarded 2014)
Heather Yeargan (dissertation,
projected graduation 2014)
Jacob Olmsted (dissertation,
degree awarded 2012)
Robert Butts (dissertation,
degree awarded 2010)
Colby Bosher (thesis), degree
awarded 2010
Leah Parker Tarwater
(dissertation, degree awarded 2010)
Kristopher Paschal (thesis, SMU,
degree awarded 2010)
Glen Ely (dissertation, degree
awarded 2009)
Jahue Anderson (dissertation, degree
awarded 2009)
John Lundberg (dissertation,
degree awarded 2008)
Steve Flaig
(thesis, UNT, degree awarded 2005)
Charles Grear
(dissertation, degree awarded 2004)
Kelly McMichael (dissertation,
UNT, degree awarded 2002)
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS
The
History of Texas, 5th ed., coauthored with Robert A. Calvert and
Arnoldo De León (Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014. (I was coauthor on 2nd,
3rd, and 4th editions as well.)
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
“Our Very Pronounced Theory of
Equal Rights to All”: Race, Citizenship, and Populism in the South Texas
Borderlands,” Journal of American History
100 (Dec. 2013), 663-90.
“The Roots of Southern
Progressivism: Texas Populists and the Rise of a Reform Coalition in Milam
County,” essay in This Corner of Canaan:
Essays in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell (Denton: University of North Texas
Press, 2013), 229-64.
“Brethren in the Political Faith:
Texas Populists and Religion,” Touchstone
31 (2012), 65-72.
“‘A Host of Sturdy Host of
Patriots’: The Texas Populists,” essay in The
Texan Left, David Cullen and Kyle Wilkison, eds. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2010), 53-73.
“The Republic of Texas,” essay in Going to Texas: Five Centuries of Texas Maps
from the Museum of the Big Bend Sul Ross University
Yana and Marty Davis Map Collection (Fort Worth: Center For
Texas Studies at TCU and the TCU Press, 2007), 41-54.
“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. Revised version reprinted in Bruce A. Glasrud
and James M. Smallwood, eds., The African
American Experience in Texas: An Anthology (Lubbock: Texas Tech University
Press, 2007), 138-52.
PUBLICATIONS:
REFERENCE WORKS AND MISCELLANEOUS
“Texas,” in World Book Encyclopedia
“The Republic of Texas,” 1,000-word chapter introduction to Chapter 2 of Jason Walker and
Will Erwin, eds., The Texas State Cemetery (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2011), 35-41.
Foreword to new edition of
William Ransom Hogan’s The Texas Republic
(Austin: TSHA Press, 2006).
“Stephen F. Austin,” “Sam
Houston,” Texas,” in The West: From
the Northwest Ordinance to the Silver Screen (Lewes, England: White-Thomson
Publishing), forthcoming.
“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, 2006).
“Texas,” in Stanley I. Kutler, ed., Dictionary
of American History, 3rd. ed. (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003),
98-103.
“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
“Equal Rights and the Othello Problem: Populists,
African Americans, and Citizenship in the Lone Star State,” paper presented at
the Agricultural History Society annual meeting, Banff, Alberta, Canada, June
2013.
“Race, Reform, and the Failure of
Populism in San Antonio,” Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield,
Missouri, September 2012.
“The End of Texas History?,” Texas Philosophical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas,
February 2012.
“The Texas Left: The Radical
Roots of Lone Star Liberalism,” panelist, Organization of American Historians
Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas, April 2011.
“Texas: West?,”
session commentator, Western History Association Annual Meeting, Lake Tahoe,
Nevada, October 2010.
“Populism
and the Texas Left,” Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Dallas,
Texas, March 2010.
“Racial
Violence,” session chair, Western History Association Annual Meeting, Denver,
Colorado, October 2009.
“Roundtable
on Charles Postel’s The Populist Vision,” panelist, Mid-America Conference on History,
Springfield, Missouri, September 2008.
“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, T.R. Fehrenbach Award, awarded by the Texas Historical
Commission for Lone Star Pasts: Memory
and History in Texas, May 2008.
Elected
Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, March 2008.
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
Keynote Speaker, Discovering
Texas History Conference, Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin, Texas,
January 2014.
President, Texas State Historical
Association, 2013-2014
Member, CSOPE Social Studies
Review Panel (3rd grade social studies curriculum), Texas State Board of
Education, fall 2013.
Member
(200-2014) and co-moderator (2011-2013), Dallas Area Social Historians.
Speaker, San Antonio History
Seminar, San Antonio, Texas, September 2013.
Member
(2011-2012) and Chair (2013), Western History Association Award of Merit
Committee.
Member,
Friends of the Dallas Public Library Book Award Committee, Texas Institute of
Letters, 2010.
Judge, Texas History Day, Austin,
Texas, June 2009.
Member,
Board of Directors (2005-2009), Chair of the Finance Committee (2007-2009);
member, Handbook Committee (2009-2010), Audit Committee (2009-2010), and
Alternatives Committees (2007), Texas State Historical Association.
Member, TCU Press Advisory Board,
2007-2009.
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, University
of North Carolina Press, Texas A&M University Press, Texas State Historical
Association Press, and University of North Texas Press.
DEPARTMENTAL,
COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
At Texas Christian University I have
served on the department graduate committee, the department advisory committee,
the ad hoc committee to revise the graduate program, the AddRan
“Back to Class Night” Planning Committee, the AddRan Advisory
Committee (2007-2010). I served on the AddRan Strategic Planning Committee (2003-2004) and the
University Council (2005-2008). I
perform a variety of services in support of the programs of the Center for
Texas Studies, including editing the Texas Biography Series, twice teaching an
Extended Education class on the Texas Revolution and escorting a weekend-long
trip to Texas historic sites. I chaired
the Women’s History Faculty Search Committee (2005-2006) and the LBJ Chair
Search Committee (2011-2012). In 2013 I was a featured speaker at the AddRan Back to Class Night event. I have served on the TCU
Press Board for the past decade.
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, Frances Cook Van Zandt
Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, November 2013.
Speaker, “The Farm Problem and
Populism,” Project Hope, Fort Worth I.S.D. teacher instituted, February 2012.
Speaker, “Creating a National
Economy: The Market Revolution in Jacksonian America,” Project
Insight, Fort Worth I.S.D.
teacher institute, January 2010.
Lead Historical Consultant for
“Texas 50” Web Site/Documentary Project, KERA-TV, Dallas, Texas, 2008.
Speaker, “From Disunion to
Empire: The United States, 1850-1900,” teacher institute sponsored by
Humanities Texas and Trinity University, San Antonio, June 2008.
Speaker, “From Disunion to
Empire: The United States, 1850-1900,” teacher institute sponsored by
Humanities Texas and UNT, June 2008.
Delegate
to Texas State Democratic Convention, Austin, Texas, June 2008.
Speaker, Fort Worth Genealogical
Society, Fort Worth, Texas, May 2008.
Delegate to Senate District 12
Democratic Convention, April 2008.
Speaker, Frances Cooke Van Zandt Chapter, Daughters of
the Republic of Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, March 2008.
Speaker, Mary Anne Lawhon Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Fort
Worth, Texas February 2008.
Speaker,
Heritage Farmstead Museum, Plano, Texas, Januay 2008.
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, “The West and the
Shaping of America Conference, ”teacher conference
sponsored by Humanities Texas and TCU. June 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, 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 again in 2008, 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
Agricultural History Society
Southern Association for Women
Historians