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Faculty Credentials : SummerI 2008
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1. 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.
2. 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.
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. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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+
8. 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.
9. Darren J Pierson (P)
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
10. 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.
11. 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

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