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Faculty Credentials : Spring 2008
Honors Program


1. Thomas G. Chasteen (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS CHEMISTRY -- EAST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY(1980)
  • MS CHEMISTRY -- EAST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY(1986)
  • PHD CHEMISTRY -- UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO(1990)
  • Analytical Chemist for 3.5 years and Director of Research and Development 1 year at Southern California Chemical Company
  • Forty-eight peer-reviewed publications and patents and over sixty (60) scientific presentations at international, national, regional and local scientific meetings involving analytical, biochemical, environmental or instrumental analysis or the teaching of analytical chemistry.
  • American Chemical Society certified chemist (A. C. S. B.S.)
  • Collaborative research with scientists at ExxonMobil; Stanford University; Texaco; University of Pittsburg; University of Santiago, Chile; and University of Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Teaching freshman, sophomore, juniors, seniors, and graduate students in chemistry and environmental studies. Teaching in SHSU Honors Program for 15+ years, conducting chemistry classes for non-science majors
  • Member of the American Chemical Society for over 25 years
  • Member of the Environmental Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society
2. Brian Jay Cooper (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA GEOLOGY & MATHEMATICS -- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTE BARBARA(1976)
  • MS GEOLOGY -- VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY(1978)
  • PHD GEOLOGY -- VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY(1988)
  • Geology and Mineralogy 24+
3. Jeffrey Lee Crane (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE(1993)
  • MA HISTORY -- WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1998)
  • PHD HISTORY -- WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY(2004)
  • Under contract to publish "Natural Protest: A History of American Environmental Protest" with Routledge Press in September, 2008.
  • I have published two articles (one peer-reviewed), seven book reviews, and have presented twelve conference papers, four of them in the last two years.
  • I have been rated in the top 20% of teachers nationwide in the IDEA system since I began teaching here in Fall, 2006
4. Paula Raelynn Deaton (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA BIOLOGY -- BEREA COLLEGE, BEREA, KY(1995)
  • MS BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES -- UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS(2001)
  • PHD ZOOLOGY -- THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, NORMAN, OK(2006)
5. Kristina S. Hanssen (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BFA THEATRE -- STEPHENS COLLEGE(1975)
  • MA THEATRE -- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY(1977)
  • MFA THEATRE: DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY -- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY(1985)
6. Michael Henderson (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BFA ART -- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS(1983)
  • MFA ART -- UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS(1986)
  • Certified Maya Instructor, Alias Wavefront, Toronto, 2004
  • 2006 Michael Henderson, Loop Negative Two, Solo Exhibit, Project Room, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX. 2006 Michael Henderson, Loop Negative One, Solo Exhibit, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 2004 Second Look: photography/digital media, Group Exhibit, Visual Arts Building, Main Gallery, University of Texas at Dallas. 2003 Malleability – Transparency - Solubility: Charting New Territory with Digital Media, Group Exhibit, Landmark Gallery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX. 2003 MicroCineFest. Group Screening, G-Spot, The American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD. 2002 Pixxelpoint, International Computer Art Festival, Group Exhibit, Nova Gorica, Slovenia. 2002 Digital Art 2002. Group Exhibit, Jackson Hall Gallery, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY. 2002 Animated Life. The Dallas Video Festival, Screening at Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, TX.
7. Carol R. James (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA PHYSICS -- RICE UNIVERSITY(1991)
  • MA ASTRONOMY -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(1993)
  • PHD ASTRONOMY -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(2000)
8. Andrew J Lopenzina (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST(1999)
  • MA ENGLISH LITERATURE -- UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE(2000)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE(2006)
  • American Literature 24+
  • “The Stone Canoe: Tracing Indigenous Roots in the Writings of William Apess.” The Northeast Modern Language Association Conference (Buffalo, Mar. 2008). “Photographic Transubstantiation: Before and After Shots and the Myth of Transformation at the Indian Boarding School.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention (Atlanta, Nov. 2007). “‘The Door of the Tomb Opens, and Metamora Appears’: Resurrecting King Philip in John Augustus Stone’s Metamora and William Apess’ Eulogy.” The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference (Albuquerque, February 2007). “Compromised Currencies: Why Samson Occom is not Pictured on the One Hundred Dollar Bill.” The North Eastern Modern Language Association Conference (Baltimore, March 2007). “‘This Indian Land’: Sustaining Native Space in Eighteenth-Century Natick.” The Interdisciplinary Meeting in Indigenous Studies (Norman, OK, May 2007).
  • “What to the American Indian is the Fourth of July: Where Abolitionist Rhetoric Meets Native American Advocacy in the Writings of William Apess and Frederick Douglass.” Native American Literature Symposium (Minneapolis, April 2005). “A Tale of Two Settlements: Cooperstown, Brotherton and the Projection of Wilderness Community in Eighteenth-Century America.” The Southern American Studies Association Conference (Baton Rouge, February 2005). “Crossing the Threshold: Reading Masculine Silences in John Williams’ The Redeemed Captive.” The American Studies Association Conference (Hartford, October 2003).
  • "Shadow Casting: Survivance and the Problem of Historical Recovery." Gerald Vizenor: Texts, COntexts, Contemporaries, eds. Deborah Madsen and Robert Lee, University of New Mexico Press, Due Fall 2010. “Compromised Currencies: Why Samson Occom is not Pictured on the One Hundred Dollar Bill.” Sovereignty, Separatism and Survivance: Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America, ed. Benjamin Carson. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009: 17-45.
9. Lee Mary Miller (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • AB SOCIOLOGY -- SMITH COLLEGE(1987)
  • MA SOCIOLOGY -- YALE UNIVERSITY(1989)
  • MPHIL PHILOSOPHY -- YALE UNIVERSITY(1993)
  • PHD SOCIOLOGY -- YALE UNIVERSITY(1995)
10. Sheryl K Murphy-manley (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BMED MUSIC EDUCATION -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1985)
  • MM MUSIC-CONDUCTING -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1987)
  • PHD MUSICOLOGY -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(1996)
  • Musicology 24+
  • • A Concise and Friendly Guide to Music History. 2nd edition. Mason, Ohio: Thomson Custom Publishing, 2006. ISBN 0-759-38927-6 (1st edition, 2004, ISBN 0-759-34372-1) • “Gianfrancesco de Majo (1732-1770): A Case of a Forgotten Eighteenth Century Composer.” South Central Music Bulletin II/1 (Fall 2003): 6-12. • “American Composers: Howard Hanson, Charles Ives, Newton Strandberg, Aaron Copland, Morton Gould.” New York: published and distributed by the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble, Spring 2003. This was a refereed contribution, subjected to rigorous editorial review, for the Symphony’s catalog of performance events. • Revised article and created sacred-music work-list for: “Gian Francesco de Majo (1732-1770).” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. Stanley Sadie. London and New York: W. W. Norton, 2001.
11. Jennifer Karen Pontius (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ENGLISH -- THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM(1986)
  • MA ENGLISH -- CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, DOMINGUEZ HILLS(1990)
  • MFA DANCE -- THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY(1996)
  • 10 years experience as a professional dancer in ballet and modern dance companies, including The Birmingham Ballet, Sarasota Ballet, Dance Repertory Theatre, Donna Sternberg and Dancers
12. Christopher P Randle (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA BIOLOGY -- HIRAM COLLEGE(1995)
  • PHD EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY -- THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY(2004)
13. Monte L. Thies (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS BIOLOGY -- UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA(1986)
  • MS BIOLOGY -- UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA(1988)
  • PHD ZOOLOGY -- OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY(1993)
  • Field Biology, Zoology, Environmental Toxicology 24+
  • 20+ years conducting field research, with peer-reviewed publications on natural history of vertebrates, environmental studies on pesticide accumulation in bats, and floral and faunal inventory work on federal and state lands
14. Eugene O. Young (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA ENGLISH -- WEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY(1968)
  • MA ENGLISH -- WEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY(1975)
  • PHD ENGLISH -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE(1979)
  • American Literature 24+
  • "Texas Music at the Crossroads." National Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Houston, TX, March 2002. "Between the Wish and the Thing: The Battle of Zacatecas and Mexican History in All the Pretty Horses." National Conference of the Cormac McCarthy Society, San Antonio, TX, October 1999. "Student Editing Internships in Low-Industry Geographical Areas." Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA, March 1987.
  • Honored for "Extraordinary and Sustained Service" to the College English Association, awarded at the National Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, 1992.
  • Article: "Joanna Burden as Joe Christmas' Alter Ego." The Rectangle, Spring, 1976. Proceedings: "Student Editing Internships in Low-Industry Geographical Areas." Proceedings of the 1987 Conference on College Composition and Communications.
  • Director, Elliott T. Bowers Honors Program, 2006-present.

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