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Classes Taught
HIST 1301 (pre-Civil War American history)
HIST 1302 (post-Civil War)
HIST 3313 (American women’s history)
HIST 3361 (Modern East Asian history)
HIST 4360 (Discourses/Senior capstone course)
HIST 4399 (Senior thesis)
POLS 2301 (US/Texas government)
POLS 3384 (Regional studies: Asia)
Presentations
“Dwight D. Eisenhower, Margaret Chase Smith and the
Reconstruction of the Republican Party”, National
Social Science Association Professional Development
Conference, Albuquerque, NM, October 19-21,2008
“The Transformative Power of Work and Place: The
Early Life of Margaret Chase Smith”, Rural Heritage
Institute, Sterling College, Craftsbury Common, VT,
June 10-15, 2008
“Declaration of Conscience as a Declaration of Self:
The Autobiography of Margaret Chase
Smith”, International Society for Educational
Biography, Chicago, April 23-26, 2008
“The Road Not Taken: Eisenhower’s Party and Sen.
Margaret Chase Smith”, Mid-American
Conference on History, Lawrence, KS, Sept 22-24,
2005
“An Historical Overview of American Public
Education”, Suzhou Education College, Suzhou, China
June 29, 2002
“Gender and Politics in the United States: Why More
Women Don’t Hold Elective Office,” University of the
Philippines, Los Banos, February 2, 2002
“Differences Between the American and the Chinese
College Experience”, Suzhou University,
Suzhou, China, December 19, 2001
“Margaret Chase Smith and the Struggle for Political
Legitimacy in the 1950s”, Fifth Southern
Conference on Women’s History, University of
Richmond, June 15-17, 2000
“Margaret Chase Smith and the Struggle for Political
Legitimacy”, Texas A&M University,
March 3, 1999
Publications
“A Southern First Lady Redefines the Role”, review
of Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the
White House,” Scott Kaufmann, (University of
Kansas Press, Lawrence, KS, 2007)
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=22924
(November 2008);
Review of American Reformers, 1870-1920:
Progressives in Word and Deed, Steven L. Piott
(Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., NY, 2006)
Teaching History, vol.32, no.2, Fall 2006);
Review of Dorothy Day: Writings from Commonweal,
Patrick Jordan, ed. (The Liturgical Press:
Collegeville, MN, 2002), Mystics Quarterly,
December 2003,152-153
Awards
Delta Kappa Gamma, International Honor Society for
Women Educators, Eta Xi Chapter; Honorary Member,
Schreiner University Chapter, Alpha Lambda Delta;
Schreiner University Academic Advisor of the Year,
2006; Who’s Who in American Education, 7th edition,
2006-2007; Who's Who in America, Millennium edition;
Who's Who in the South and Southwest, 26th edition,
1999-2000; Who's Who of American Women, 21st
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Education
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, Ph.D.
in History; Dissertation: “Margaret Chase Smith and
the Struggle for Political Legitimacy, 1920s-1950s”
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
M.A. in Political Science
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, B.A. in East Asian Language and
Cultures, cum laude
Teaching Experience
Schreiner University, Kerrville, Texas
Associate Professor of History and Political
Science, Sept 2002-present
American history survey course: pre-Civil War and
post-Civil War; American women’s history; Senior
capstone seminar; historiography; Modern East Asian
history; East Asian politics American/Texas
government
Hangzhou Babel Language Center/Huipu Educational
Group, Hangzhou, China, Summer Faculty
Curriculum development and implementation;
Reinforcement of English writing, reading, and
conversational skills; Intensive summer camp
environment with Chinese upper middle school
students
Suzhou University-Marshall University Joint Language
Institute, Suzhou, China,
Director, Joint Language Institute; Curriculum
development, implementation and evaluation; Designed
and taught courses in conversational English, study
habits and American classroom survival
Taught English composition and research skills;
Mentor junior Institute faculty
Program co-ordination with Chinese faculty advisor
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas,
Instructor
American history survey course: Pre-Civil War and
Post-Civil War; International student sections;
Blinn College, Bryan, Texas; Instructor American
national government Texas state and local government
Related Experience
AP US History Exam, June 11-19, 2007, Louisville, KY
Reader - Participated in national evaluation of high
school students’ essays written for the Advanced
placement exam
Professional Affiliations
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
National Council for Public History
Association for Asian Studies
Friends Association for Higher Education
International Professor Project (Fellow)
Southern Association of Women Historians |
