Curriculum Vitae
Keith Volanto 

Education:
Texas A&M University - PhD--History
California State University, Sacramento - M.A.--History
California State University, Sacramento - B.S.-- Electrical Engineering
 
Teaching History:
Fall 2004 - Current
Institution: Collin College
Position: History Professor
 
Fall 2002 - Spring 2004
Institution: Blinn College
Position: History Professor
 
Fall 1998 - Spring 2002
Institution: Texas A&M University
Position: History Professor and Undergraduate Advisor
 
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Additional Teaching History:
 
Publications:
Book Publications  
 
Texas Voices: Documents and Biographical Sketches, Abigail Press, 2010 (Author and Editor)  
 
Beyond Myths and Legends: A Narrative History of Texas, Abigail Press, 2008  
A college-level Texas history textbook (co-author)  
 
Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal, Texas A&M University Press, 2005  
(Finalist for the Texas State Historical Association’s Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize; Nominee for the Texas Historical Commission’s T.R. Fehrenbach Award)  
 
Article and Essay Publications  
 
“Strange Brew: Recent Texas Political, Economic, and Military History,” in Beyond Texas through Time  
(Texas A&M University Press, forthcoming in 2011).  
 
“‘Up in Arms’: Local Protest vs. the Placement of Black CCC Camps in West Texas,” West Texas Historical Association Yearbook 83 (2007): 96-110.  
 
“The AAA Cotton Plow-Up Campaign in Arkansas,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 59 (Winter 2000): 386-406.  
 
“Burying White Gold: The AAA Cotton Plow-up Campaign in Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103 (January 2000): 326-355.  
 
“Leaving the Land: Tenant and Sharecropper Displacement in Texas during the New Deal,”  
Social Science History 20 (Winter 1996): 533-51.  
 
Encyclopedia Entries  
 
“The New Deal and Southern Agriculture,” in The New Encyclopedia for Southern Culture (2nd Edition), Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry, (University of North Carolina Press, 2008).  
 
“The New Deal,” in Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia, ed. Jordan Goodman; (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons Reference Books, 2005).