Faculty Success Stories

Paul Clark was named Outstanding Professor for the Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities by the Mortar Board organization of WT.

Marty Kuhlman published Always WT - the centennial history of West Texas A&M University.

Jean Stuntz is President of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online for 2010.

Paul Clark published The Kokugo Revolution: Education, Identity, and Language Policy in Imperial Japan with Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

Joe D. Rogers, adjunct professor, has been eelcted President of the Texas Archeological Society for 2010.

Bruce Brasington. Visiting Professor at Dresden, Germany in summer 2008, West Texas A&M University Regents Professor nominee in 2008, published two articles in 2008, recipient of the 2007 WTAMU Honors Faculty Award, invited speaker at the 2007 Carlsberg Academy in Copenhagen, which was sponsored by the law faculty of the University of Copenhagen and the Carlsberg Foundation/Danish Academy of Sciences.

Elizabeth Clark. Fulbright-Hays recipient and traditional Fulbright research grant recipient in spring 2008 will spend the 2009 academic year conducting research in Poland, in Jan. 2008, she read for the Individual Advanced Research Opportunities grants awarded by IREX (the International Research and Exchange Board) List Editor of H-Russia, she has also been invited to become an Affiliated Fellow of the University of Texas Russian and East European and Eurasian Studies Center.

Paul Clark. Had two articles published in top-tier, peer-reviewed East Asian history journals in 2008-2009.

Maritza De La Trinidad, one of the newest members of the faculty, is already an active scholar. Her accomnplishments include giving papers at four conferences in 2008: in November of 2008 at the National Council for the Social Studies conference in Houston, at a workshop for the Teaching of American History Grant, in December 2008 at the American Historical Assocviation meeting in New York in Janary 2009 and at the West Texas Historical Association in Lubbock in April 2009.

Marty Kuhlman. Writing the centennial history of WTAMU, which will be published in 2009. He will also co- teach a course on reform movements in America as part of a Department of Education and Social Sciences initiative in summer 2009.

Byron Pearson. Named head of the Department of History and Geography in Jan. 2008, he presented a paper entitled “Grand Canyon; 100 Years of Protected Sacred Space,” on the cultural significance of Grand Canyon National Monument at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on March 29, 2008 in New York. He is revising his second book project entitled They Left It As It Was, an anthology commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the establishment of Grand Canyon National Monument.

Wade Shaffer. Named associate dean of the Sybil B. Harrington College of FIne Arts and Humanities. He is the academic director for the $930,000 Teaching American History grant received by Region XVI Education Service Center. The grant is for three years and targets public school American history teachers. He has been asked to contribute an historiographical essay on Jacksonian politics and political parties for a volume that will be published by Harlan Davidson as a supplement to Robert Remini’s The Jacksonian Era, second edition. Spring 2009 is the projected publication date.

Jean Stuntz. Recipient of the 2008 and 2009 Faculty Service Excellence Award for the Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities, chaired a session on women and the Inquisition at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington D.C., in Jan. 2008, is on the board of directors for the West Texas Historical Association, and is its book review editor. She has two articles in peer-reviewed journals for 2009. She will be President of the Faculty Senate for 2009-2010 and President of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online for 2010.

Bryan Vizzini. Recipient of the 2008 Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities Teaching Excellence Award and was the college's nominee for the WTAMU Teaching Excellence Award, had an article accepted for publication entitled “Cold War Fears, Cold War Passions,” which will appear in the Jan. 2009 issue of the Quarterly Review of Film and Video and led a student research seminar to Guanajuato, Mexico in June 2007.

Student Success Stories

Current Students:

Both Stephanie Bowden and Grant James were part of a Killgore Student Summer Research Grant proposal that Bogener wrote to conduct research primarily in New Mexico. Both students were investigating incidents of violence in the wake of the Lincoln County War which supposedly ended in 1881. Both students visited the State Archive and Records Center in Santa Fe, the special collections and library at UNM in Albuquerque, the Hubbard Museum and Archive in Ruidoso, and the Chavez County Museum/Archive in Roswell.

Hillarie Easely McPherson, Carley Dumenil and Jan Weston presented papers at the West Texas Historical Association conference in April.

Stephanie Bowden presented a paper at the WTAMU Student Research Conference last spring. She is now espanding the paper with the intent to publish an article as a grad student.

Currently there are several students working on museum internships at PPHM: Amanda Ebell is working with Warren Stricker in the Research center, Cassie Coffman is working with Michael Grauer on exhibits, Jamie McClary has worked with Amy David on grant projects and will work with Steve Bogener this fall in preparing a grant as part of a Public History Internship. Megan Bedrosian and Karen Middleton are also working in the museum through the internship program.

Former Students

Christy Czerwien: Has been admitted to the graduate program in history at the University of Pitsburgh.

Tracy Stewart was accepted into the PhD program at Tech.

Ashley Franklin former history major and student body VP finished her supreme court internship in June and had a baby in July—Ashly aparantly scheduled that one perfectly.

Anessa Stegner, former history major and student body President, is teaching as an instructor and is writing her dissertation at the UC Irvine.

Joanna Junker is doing the same at Stanford.

Departmentally: Public History is up and running!

Undergraduate:

As of now, there are 19 students enrolled in the first ever offered Public History Course at WTAMU.

History Graduate Program:

The grad program last year had 22 individual students enrolled. As of today we have 38 individual students enrolled—many of whom are interested in public history, three seminars have made. This represents an increase of 72 percent.

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