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Faculty Credentials : Fall 2007
History


1. Nancy E Baker (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY(1990)
  • MA HISTORY -- THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY(1993)
  • AM HISTORY -- HARVARD UNIVERSITY(1993)
  • PHD HISTORY -- HARVARD UNIVERSITY(2003)
  • Book MSS, "The Role of Rescission Movements in the Equal Rights Amendment Battle, 1972-1982," has been submitted to Baylor University Press for publication consideration
2. Rosanne M. Barker (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA(1979)
  • MA HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA(1981)
  • PHD HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA(1994)
  • Manuscript Curator of Historical Collections, Davidson Library, UC Santa Barbara, 1984-89
  • One edited work, journal articles, and scholarly presentations in American Women's History
3. John W Biles (P)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY(1992)
  • MA HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, COLLEGE PARK(1994)
  • PHD HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS(2006)
  • More than 50 graduate hours in field
4. Terry Bilhartz (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS SECONDARY EDUCATION-HISTORY/MATH -- DALLAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY(1972)
  • MA HISTORY -- EMORY UNIVERSITY(1974)
  • PHD HISTORY -- GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY(1979)
  • Author or editor of 18 peer reviewed volumes in American, World and Religous History, including Currents in American History (ME Sharpe, 2007), Sacred Words (McGraw Hill, 2006), Constructing the American Past (Longman, 1991, 1995, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2007), and Urban Religion (1986).
  • Regularly scores in top 20% nationally among history teachers using the IDEA teacher evaluation system.
  • Multiple book chapters, journal articles and scholarly presentations in the history of science and medicine, philosophy, religion, and psychology.
5. Robert B. Bruce (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BGS HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-OMAHA(1992)
  • MA HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-OMAHA(1994)
  • PHD HISTORY -- KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY(1999)
  • Books: A Fraternity of Arms: America & France in the Great War (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2003) editor, Abraham Lincoln's Changing Views on Slavery (Brandywine Press, 2001) Pétain: Verdun to Vichy (Potomac Books, 2008) co-author, Fighting Techniques of the Napoleonic Age, 1792-1815 (Thomas Dunne Books, 2008) Numerous articles, essays, and encyclopedia entries on US, French, European, and Military history Featured Commentator on Historical Documentaries: Into the Furnace: The Battle of Verdun (Lucas Films, 2007) Marshal Pétain's Fall from Grace (Lucas Films, 2007)
  • 2004 Tomlinson Prize from the Western Front Association awarded to my book _A Fraternity of Arms: America & France in the Great War_ for the best book on World War I. Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence, Kansas State University, 1997
  • I have been rated in the top 20% of teachers nationwide by the IDEA evaluation form in each semester for the past three years.
6. Thomas Hughes Cox (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS POLITICAL SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT -- BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE(1994)
  • BA HISTORY -- BIRMINGHAM-SOUTHERN COLLEGE(1994)
  • MA HISTORY -- THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO(1998)
  • PHD HISTORY -- THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO(2004)
  • Early American History 15
  • American Legal History 6
  • Latin American History 6
  • Modern American History 6
  • Have scored in the top 20% of teachers nationwide by the IDEA evaluation form for the past three years.
  • Monograph, "Gibbons v. Ogden, Law, and Society," published with Ohio University Press (September 2009).
  • “Frontier Framers: Constitution Making in Nineteenth Century Nebraska,” in The History of Nebraska Law (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006), ed. Alan Gless, 11-27.
  • “From Centerpiece to Center Stage: Kelly Ingram Park, Segregation, and Civil Rights in Birmingham, Alabama” in the Southern Historian 18 (Spring 1997): 5-28.
  • Eight professional presentations in the past three years.
  • “Contesting Commerce: Gibbons v. Ogden, Steam Power, and Social Change,” in Journal of Supreme Court History 34 (March 2009), 55-73.
  • Visiting Fulbright Professor of History, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China.
  • Excellent Foreign Expert Award, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
7. 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
8. Caroline Castillo Crimm (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • AB HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI(1969)
  • MA INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES -- TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY(1986)
  • PHD HISTORY -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(1994)
  • Received Minnie Stevens Piper Award for Best Teachers in Texas, the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Texas State Historical Association for best history teacher in Texas; received Excellence in Teaching Award for Sam Houston State University. Received SHSU Sammies for best sponsor, best advisor, and best club.
  • Published: De León: A Tejano Family History (2004), winner of three awards; The Hoffman Collection: San Diego at the Turn of the Century , with Sara R. Massey (2003); Cabin Fever: The Roberts-Farris Cabin, A Campus, A Cabin, A Community, editor (2002; numerous chapters and articles in other works.
  • Regularly scores in top 15% nationally among history teachers using the IDEA teacher evaluation system.
9. Brian F Domitrovic (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • AB HISTORY -- COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK(1989)
  • AM HISTORY -- HARVARD UNIVERSITY(1991)
  • PHD HISTORY -- HARVARD UNIVERSITY(2000)
  • economics 8
  • philosophy 4
  • Three articles,three entries, five reviews, and fifteen conference presentations/invited lectures.
  • Editorial Board, Modern Age: A Quarterly Review
  • Richard M. Weaver Fellow; Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard Univ.
10. Yvonne D Frear (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS POLITICAL SCIENCE -- UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON(1985)
  • MA HISTORY -- TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY(1995)
  • More than 50 graduate hours in field
    Degrees In Progress
  • PHD AMERICAN HISTORY -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
11. Charles Victor Heath II (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA SOCIAL SCIENCES -- TULANE UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LA(2000)
  • MA LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES -- TULANE UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LA(2004)
  • PHD HISTORY -- TULANE UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS, LA(2007)
  • “Balancing Freyre’s Vision with Brazil’s ‘Racial Democracy’: Dos Santos’ Casa Grande e Senzala por Gilberto Freyre.” Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, 26 Summer 2007.
  • “Institutionalization and Venue: The Inception of the State Band of Music of Oaxaca.” Paper presented at Oaxaca Summer Institute in Modern Mexican History and Culture, Oaxaca, Mexico, July 2007.
  • "Rupture and Revolution in Julio García Espinosa's ¿Son o no son?” Paper presented at Tulane University's Caribbean Soundscapes, New Orleans, LA, March 2004
12. Kenneth E Hendrickson (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1987)
  • MA HISTORY -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1988)
  • PHD HISTORY -- THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA(1993)
  • 2007 University Excellence in Teaching Award
  • Monograph and articles in history of Britain and British Empire
  • Essays and book chapters in the history of Science.
  • Since 2004, Averaging in the top 15% of instructors nationally according to IDEA evaluation system.
13. John Daniel Jordan (P)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA PHILOSOPHY -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(2003)
  • MA HISTORY -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(2005)
  • History 24+
  • Curriculum & Instruction/Secondary Education 15
  • Library Science 12
  • Reading 3
  • Academic Mentor at the SAM Center responsible for aiding, mentoring, and monitoring students who either want or need academic advice.
  • Taught study skills classes on campus covering procrastination, test-taking methodology, reading strategies, note-taking skills, time management, and stress management techniques.
14. Jeffrey L Littlejohn (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- BELMONT UNIVERSITY(1995)
  • MA HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS(1997)
  • PHD HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS(2002)
  • Attended N.E.H. Summer Institute on "American Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective," 2003
  • Received "Award For Innovative Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Technology," 2004.
  • Received a $25,000 N.E.H. grant for a digital project on "The Brown Decision in Norfolk, Virginia," 2004.
  • Presented eight papers at regional and national conferences in the last three years.
  • Published seven encyclopedia entries in reference collections on American History.
  • Regularly scores in top 30% nationally among history teachers using the IDEA teacher evaluation system.
15. David C Mayes (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND(1994)
  • MA HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND(1996)
  • PHD HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON(2002)
  • HIS 371 and HIS 537 are both courses on Medieval European history. This subject was a subfield throughout my graduate training and at present my research delves deep into the Medieval past in order to explain developments well through the Modern period. HIS 265 is a survey of World History to c.1500. As with the two aforementioned courses, it is one I have now taught a few times and received excellent student evaluations on each occasion. My courses are consistently ranked in the top 30% according to the IDEA national database.
16. Kristine I Mc Coy (P)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1995)
  • MA HISTORY -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(2002)
  • History 24+
17. James S Olson (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY(1967)
  • MA HISTORY -- STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, STONY BROOK(1969)
  • PHD HISTORY -- STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, STONY BROOK(1972)
  • Highest score on the IDEA teaching Evaluation System, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, SHSU, 2007
  • Professor of the Year, Texas, Carnegie Foundation, 2005; Piper Professor, 2006; Excellence in the History of Science Category, Association of American Publishers, 2002.
  • More than 35 books published, including six monographs and a seventh currently under consideration
18. Lee M Pappas (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY(1982)
  • MA GOVERNMENT -- NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY(1984)
  • MA HISTORY -- NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY(1986)
  • Middle East and Central Asian History 24+
  • Near Languages and Cultures 24+
    Non-Complete Degrees
  • PHD HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
19. Nicholas Charles Pappas (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • AB HISTORY -- STANFORD UNIVERSITY(1971)
  • AM HISTORY -- STANFORD UNIVERSITY(1972)
  • PHD HISTORY -- STANFORD UNIVERSITY(1983)
  • I worked as a library specialist in the Middle East and Russian/East European Curatorships of the Hoover Institution Library
  • I am author of one monograph, author of eleven articles and essays on Balkan, Russian, and Middle Eastern History. I am editor of one collection, co-editor of four collections, associate editor of one dictionary, and series editor of two monographs on general and specific themes in history.
  • I am head of the History and Philosophy Research Units of the Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece. I also serve as Vice-President of the Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece.
20. Katherine A Pierce (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA POLITICAL SCIENCE -- ALLEGHENY COLLEGE MEADVILLE, PA(1982)
  • MA HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA(2001)
  • PHD HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA(2006)
  • Murder and Mayhem: Violence, Press Coverage and the Mobilization of the Republican Party in 1856" in anthology Words at War: The Civil War and American Journalism, ed., David Sachsman. (Purdue University Press: scheduled for release fall 2009)
  • My graduate training and dissertation examine American history from 1800-1877 with specialization in the American South, Civil War, and print culture. Both HIS 572 and 573 fall within my specialities by coursework, research, and four years participation in the Early American History Seminar at University of Virginia
21. Darren J Pierson (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BS BUSINESS MANAGEMENT -- WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY(1990)
  • MA HISTORY -- SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY(1995)
  • History 24+
    Non-Complete Degrees
  • PHD HISTORY -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
22. Bernadette Pruitt (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA JOURNALISM -- TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY(1989)
  • MA HISTORY -- TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY(1991)
  • PHD HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON(2001)
  • United States History 24+
  • African American History 21
  • Modern Europe 6
  • Sociology 6
  • Forthcoming Book Entitled "For the Advancement of the Race”: African American Agency, Work, and the Great Migrations to Houston, Texas, 1900-1941 (College Station: Texas A. & M. University Press, 2009);
  • Two Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Articles, along with tne Forthcoming Peer-Reviewed Book Chapter "Seven Schoolteachers Challenge the Klan: The Founders of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority," in Our Fight Has Just Begun: Black Greek Letter Organizations in the Twenty-First Century (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008).
  • Seven Encyclopedia Entries in Multiple Publications in African American and Recent United States History.
  • The Journal of Urban History Article “‘For the Advancement of the Race’: African American Migration to Houston, 1914-1941,” Nominated for Best Article Prize, Urban History Association, June 2006; Two Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards for the 2005-2006 Academic Year, including the Department of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as other Fellowships, Grants, and Awards.
23. Joseph M. Rowe (P)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- ATHENAEUM OF OHIO(1953)
  • MA HISTORY -- KENT STATE UNIVERSITY(1956)
  • PHD HISTORY -- TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY(1977)
24. Robert L. Shadle (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HISTORY -- SAINT AMBROSE COLLEGE(1960)
  • MA HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF IOWA(1962)
  • History 24+
  • Co-editor of three historical dictionaries.
  • More than 35 years history teaching experience at the university level
25. Tracy Lee Steele (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BSFS INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY(1985)
  • PHD INTERNATIONAL HISTORY -- UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, ENGLAND(1991)
  • Awarded Chinese Culture Research Fellowship from the China Scholarship Council of the People's Republic of China for Spring 2003; attended2005 NEH Summer Institute on "Southeast Asia: Indigenous Impulses and Outside Influences"; and 2000 NEH Summer Institute on "Religions, Philosophies, and Culture in India: Conflicts and Negotiations",
  • Visiting Professor at university in People's Republic of China in Spring, 2007: 13 Lectures on US and Chinese History and Cross-Cultural Communications
  • Twp Peer-reviewed articles: "The Politics of Anglo-American Aid to Nonaligned India, 1962" Electronic Journal of International History, July 2002 and "Allied and Interdependent: British Policy During the Chinese Offshore Islands Crisis of 1958" Contemporary British History, 1931-61: Politics and the Limits of Policy
26. Susannah Janette Ural (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA POLITICAL SCIENCE/HISTORY -- THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT(1995)
  • MA HISTORY -- KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY(1997)
  • PHD HISTORY -- KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY(2002)
  • Recipient of 2 teaching awards, including the 2004 Excellence in Teaching Award as the best teacher on the SHSU campus. • Regularly scores in top 20% nationally among history teachers using the IDEA teacher evaluation system
  • Author of _The Harp and the Eagle: Irish-American Volunteers in the Union Army, 1861-1865_ (NYU Press 2006)
  • Multiple journal articles, essays, and scholarly presentations in the history of the U.S. Civil War era, U.S. military history, and nineteenth-century America.
27. Nancy E Zey (F)
Short Vita
 Courses TaughtRelevant Academic Degrees
and Course Credits Earned		Other Qualifications
 
  • BA HUMANITIES -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(1995)
  • MA CLASSICAL HERITAGE -- UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL, BRISTOL, UK(1997)
  • PHD HISTORY -- THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN(2007)
  • Two peer-reviewed book chapters: “Children of the Public: Poor and Orphaned Minors in the Southwest Borderlands,” in James Marten, ed., Children and Youth in a New Nation, New York University Press (forthcoming) and “‘Every Thing but a Parent’s Love’: The Family Life of Orphan Asylums in the Lower Mississippi Valley,” in Craig Thompson Friend and Anya Jabour, eds., Southern Families: Perspectives on Domesticity in the Old South, University of Georgia Press (forthcoming). Two book reviews published in historical journals.
  • Presented papers at six national and regional conferences over the past four years.

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