Curriculum Vitae

Books

2010 The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, co-edited with David Cullen. Texas A&M University Press, 2010.

2008 Yeomen, Sharecroppers and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914. Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

Chapters and Essays

2010 “'The Right to Work, to Starve, to Die': Texas’ Forgotten Radical Heritage," with David Cullen in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, Kyle Wilkison and David Cullen, Eds. Texas A&M University Press, 2010.

2009 “The Communist Party of the United States and African American Presidential Candidates,” with David Cullen in African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House, edited by Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz (Routledge Press, 2009)

2009 Editor, "James H. Conrad: The Making of an Oral Historian," The Sound Historian, 2009. 12:1-17.

2006 “Blue Collar Workers,” Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History. James Ciment, General Editor. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2006.

2004 “Introduction to Rural Social Movements in America,” and editor, “Rural Social Movements in America,” Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Immanuel Ness, General Editor. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 3:759-839.

2004 “Agrarian Socialism,” Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Immanuel Ness, General Editor. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 3:796-801.

2000 "The Long Arm of History: The Labor Movement Among Texas Police Officers," in Ronald G. DeLord, ed., The Ultimate Sacrifice: The Trials and Triumphs of the Texas Peace Officer. Austin: Peace Officer's Memorial Foundation, 2000. pp.14- 22.

Book Reviews

2010 Review of Jeffrey A. Johnson, 'They are All Red Out Here': Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) in Western Historical Quarterly (forthcoming).

2010 Review of Zamora, Emilio. Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas: Mexican workers and job politics during World War II (Texas A&M, 2009) in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (February 2010).

2009 Review of James M. Smallwood, The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2008) in The Journal of Southern History (November 2009) LXXV, No. 4, 1079-1080.

2008 Review of Joseph Gerteis, Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement (Duke University Press, 2007) in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (October 2008).

2008 Review of Mary G. Rolinson, Grassroots Garveyism: the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the rural South, 1920-1927 (North Carolina, 2007) in Choice (January 2008).

2006 Review of Thomas A. Krainz, Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West (Albuquerque, 2005) in Choice (November 2006).

2006 "Statists, All!" Review essay of Chad Morgan, Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. New Perspectives on the History of the South Series. (Gainesville, 2005) in H-SOUTH, H-Net Reviews June 2006.

2006 Review of Thad Sitton, ed., Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life From the Edge of the Texas Hill Country (Austin, 2003), Oral History Review Vol. 32. 2:124-126.

2006 Review of Thomas Summerhill, Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth Century New York (Chicago, 2005) in Choice (March 2006).

2006 Review of Mark Schultz, The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow (Urbana, 2005) in Choice (February 2006)

2005 Review of Glenn Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South (Tuscaloosa, 2004) in Choice (June 2005).

2005 Review of Thad Sitton, ed., Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life From the Edge of the Texas Hill Country (Austin, 2003) in East Texas Historical Journal (Spring 2005).

2004 Review of Gene Wunderlich, American Country Life: A Legacy (University Press of America, 2003) in Choice (May 2004).

2004 Review of Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (New York, 2003) in Choice (February 2004).

2003 "A Not-So-Different Day in Louisiana." Review essay of Greta de Jong, A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970 (Chapel Hill, 2002) in H-SOUTH, H-Net Reviews, April 2003.

2000 “Jesus and Jefferson Meet Marx in Early-Statehood Oklahoma.” Review essay of James Bissett, Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920 (Norman, 1999) in H-POL, H-Net Reviews, March 2000.

Conference Papers

1997-2010 Co-chair and organizer, thirteen Annual Cotton and Rural History Conferences, Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas.

2010 Commentator, "Roundtable Discussion of The Texas Left:: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism," Texas State Historical Association, Dallas, Texas.

2009 “Southern, Christian and Socialist: Rural America’s Forgotten Radical Heritage,” Thirteenth Cotton and Rural History Conference, Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas.

2008 "Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Poor People's Protest in Texas, 1870-1914,” Fall Meeting, East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.

2004 “Texas Socialists, 1898-1914,” Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.

2001 Chair, “Hidden but Not Forgotten: Civil War Guerrillas and Vigilantes in Northeast Texas.” East Texas Historical Association Spring Meeting, Ft. Worth, Texas.

2000 “The Religious Left: Christian Dissenters in Early Twentieth Century Texas,” Eugene V. Debs and the Politics of Dissent in Modern America Conference, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana

2000 "Capitalism Comes to the Plain Folk: The Transitional Generation in Texas, 1870-1910." East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.

1998 Commentator, James L. Roark’s paper, “Why the South Lost: Recent Interpretations of the Civil War.” Texas Community College Teachers Association Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas.

1997 “Red Reverends: Christian Socialists in East Texas,” East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.

1995 “The Degradation of Women’s Work: Texas Farms, 1870-1910” Southwestern Historical Association / Southwestern Social Sciences Association, Dallas, Texas.

1994 “Plain Folk Critics of Capitalism: Cultural Persistence and Economic Change in Texas, 1870-1910,” Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas.

1993 “From the Homeplace to No Place: The Demise of Self-Sufficient Agricultural Production in Texas,” Southern Historical Association, Orlando, Florida.

Vanderbilt University - PhD
East Texas State University - MA
East Texas State University - BA



Teaching History:
1996 - 2000	Institution: University of Texas at Dallas.
	Position: Adjunct Professor

1994 - 1999	Institution: Texas A&M University - Commerce.
	Position: Adjunct Professor

1987 - 1995	Institution: Collin College
	Position: Adjunct Professor

1985 - 1987	Institution: Vanderbilt University
	Position: Teaching Assistant

Additional Teaching History:


Publications:
Books 2010 The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, co-edited with David Cullen. Texas A&M University Press, 2010. 2008 Yeomen, Sharecroppers and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914. Texas A&M University Press, 2008. Chapters and Essays 2010 “'The Right to Work, to Starve, to Die': Texas’ Forgotten Radical Heritage," with David Cullen in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, Kyle Wilkison and David Cullen, Eds. Texas A&M University Press, 2010. 2009 “The Communist Party of the United States and African American Presidential Candidates,” with David Cullen in African Americans and the Presidency: The Road to the White House, edited by Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz (Routledge Press, 2009) 2009 Editor, "James H. Conrad: The Making of an Oral Historian," The Sound Historian, 2009. 12:1-17. 2006 “Blue Collar Workers,” Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History. James Ciment, General Editor. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2006. 2004 “Introduction to Rural Social Movements in America,” and editor, “Rural Social Movements in America,” Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Immanuel Ness, General Editor. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 3:759-839. 2004 “Agrarian Socialism,” Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Immanuel Ness, General Editor. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 3:796-801. 2000 "The Long Arm of History: The Labor Movement Among Texas Police Officers," in Ronald G. DeLord, ed., The Ultimate Sacrifice: The Trials and Triumphs of the Texas Peace Officer. Austin: Peace Officer's Memorial Foundation, 2000. pp.14- 22. Book Reviews 2010 Review of Jeffrey A. Johnson, 'They are All Red Out Here': Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) in Western Historical Quarterly (forthcoming). 2010 Review of Zamora, Emilio. Claiming rights and righting wrongs in Texas: Mexican workers and job politics during World War II (Texas A&M, 2009) in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (February 2010). 2009 Review of James M. Smallwood, The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2008) in The Journal of Southern History (November 2009) LXXV, No. 4, 1079-1080. 2008 Review of Joseph Gerteis, Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement (Duke University Press, 2007) in Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries (October 2008). 2008 Review of Mary G. Rolinson, Grassroots Garveyism: the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the rural South, 1920-1927 (North Carolina, 2007) in Choice (January 2008). 2006 Review of Thomas A. Krainz, Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West (Albuquerque, 2005) in Choice (November 2006). 2006 "Statists, All!" Review essay of Chad Morgan, Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. New Perspectives on the History of the South Series. (Gainesville, 2005) in H-SOUTH, H-Net Reviews June 2006. 2006 Review of Thad Sitton, ed., Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life From the Edge of the Texas Hill Country (Austin, 2003), Oral History Review Vol. 32. 2:124-126. 2006 Review of Thomas Summerhill, Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth Century New York (Chicago, 2005) in Choice (March 2006). 2006 Review of Mark Schultz, The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow (Urbana, 2005) in Choice (February 2006) 2005 Review of Glenn Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South (Tuscaloosa, 2004) in Choice (June 2005). 2005 Review of Thad Sitton, ed., Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life From the Edge of the Texas Hill Country (Austin, 2003) in East Texas Historical Journal (Spring 2005). 2004 Review of Gene Wunderlich, American Country Life: A Legacy (University Press of America, 2003) in Choice (May 2004). 2004 Review of Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (New York, 2003) in Choice (February 2004). 2003 "A Not-So-Different Day in Louisiana." Review essay of Greta de Jong, A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970 (Chapel Hill, 2002) in H-SOUTH, H-Net Reviews, April 2003. 2000 “Jesus and Jefferson Meet Marx in Early-Statehood Oklahoma.” Review essay of James Bissett, Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920 (Norman, 1999) in H-POL, H-Net Reviews, March 2000. Conference Papers 1997-2010 Co-chair and organizer, thirteen Annual Cotton and Rural History Conferences, Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas. 2010 Commentator, "Roundtable Discussion of The Texas Left:: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism," Texas State Historical Association, Dallas, Texas. 2009 “Southern, Christian and Socialist: Rural America’s Forgotten Radical Heritage,” Thirteenth Cotton and Rural History Conference, Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas. 2008 "Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Poor People's Protest in Texas, 1870-1914,” Fall Meeting, East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas. 2004 “Texas Socialists, 1898-1914,” Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas. 2001 Chair, “Hidden but Not Forgotten: Civil War Guerrillas and Vigilantes in Northeast Texas.” East Texas Historical Association Spring Meeting, Ft. Worth, Texas. 2000 “The Religious Left: Christian Dissenters in Early Twentieth Century Texas,” Eugene V. Debs and the Politics of Dissent in Modern America Conference, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana 2000 "Capitalism Comes to the Plain Folk: The Transitional Generation in Texas, 1870-1910." East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas. 1998 Commentator, James L. Roark’s paper, “Why the South Lost: Recent Interpretations of the Civil War.” Texas Community College Teachers Association Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas. 1997 “Red Reverends: Christian Socialists in East Texas,” East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas. 1995 “The Degradation of Women’s Work: Texas Farms, 1870-1910” Southwestern Historical Association / Southwestern Social Sciences Association, Dallas, Texas. 1994 “Plain Folk Critics of Capitalism: Cultural Persistence and Economic Change in Texas, 1870-1910,” Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas. 1993 “From the Homeplace to No Place: The Demise of Self-Sufficient Agricultural Production in Texas,” Southern Historical Association, Orlando, Florida.