Education
Ph.D.,
Oklahoma State University, 2008.
Dissertation: “Roman Catholic Crusading in Ten Years of Triumph, 1966-1976:
A History of a Lay-Directed,
Radical Catholic Journal.” Advisor:
Dr. Ronald A. Petrin
M.A.,
Emporia State University (Kansas), 2003.
Thesis: “James Burnham’s Hot War and the Conservative Movement.”
Advisor: Dr. Gregory L.
Schneider
B.S.,
Minnesota State University, Mankato, 2001.
Interests
Twentieth-Century
United States History
Cold
War
United
States Catholic History
American
Conservatism
African-American
History
Professional Experience
Professor
of History, Collin College, 2009-present.
Adjunct
Faculty, Saint Gregory’s University, 2009.
Adjunct
Faculty, Liberal Arts Division, Tulsa Community College, 2009.
Graduate
Teaching Associate, Department of History, Oklahoma State University,
2004-2008.
Adjunct
Instructor, Butler County Community College (Kansas), 2003.
Graduate
Teaching Assistant, Emporia State University (Kansas), 2001-2003.
Publications
The
Rise and Fall of Triumph: The
History of a Radical Roman Catholic Magazine, 1966-1976. Lanham: MD, Lexington
Books, 2011.
Entries in Philip C. DiMare,
ed., Movies in American History: An
Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-
CLIO/Greenwood, 2011.
Review
of Howard Lamar, Charlie Siringo’s
West: An Interpretive Biography in Pacific
Northwest Quarterly 97 no. 2
(Spring,
2006): 93.
Review
of Hal Elliot Wert, Hoover The Fishing President:
Portrait of the Private Man and His Life Outdoors in Pacific
Northwest
Quarterly 97
no. 1 (Winter 2005/2006): 41.
Professional Service
Session Chair, Gilded Age History, Southwestern Social Science
Conference, Albuquerque, NM, 2007.
Historian/Colloquium
Coordinator, Phi Alpha Theta, Oklahoma State University, 2005-2007.
Papers Presented
“Frederick
D. Wilhelmsen and ‘We the People,’” Catholics and American Society, American
Catholic Historical
Association’s Spring Conference,
New Orleans, 2012.
“Roman
Catholics and American Catholics: Reflections on Modern American Catholic
History,” Writing About Catholic
History in the 1960s and 1970s,
Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, MO, 2008.
“The
Origins of Triumph—A Lay-Directed,
Ultramontane, Crusading Catholic Journal of the 1960s and Seventies,”
Religious Thought in the Modern
World, Missouri Valley History Conference, Omaha, NE, 2008.
“Catholic
Radicals,” 19th Annual Oklahoma State University Research
Symposium, Stillwater, OK, 2008.
“Rethinking
Anticommunism, II,” Cold War Culture, Southwestern Social Science Conference,
New Orleans, LA, 2005.
“Rethinking
Anticommunism, I,” The Second Annual Undergraduate/Graduate History
Conference, Emporia State
University (Kansas), 2004.
Presentations/Lectures
“The Lecture: Retaining Individuality—the Personal—in
the Learning Process,” Faculty Development Conference
(“Sharing Our Expertise”), Collin
College (Collin Higher Education Center), McKinney, Texas, Tuesday,
August 20, 2013.
“Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation
Proclamation and the ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech,” African-American History
Month (At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: The Emancipation
Proclamation and the March on
Washington), Collin College (Preston Ridge Campus), Frisco, Texas,
Thursday, February 14, 2013.
“Expanding the American Catholic Historical
Record,” Faculty Development Conference, Collin College (Collin Higher
Education Center), McKinney, Texas, Thursday, August 16, 2012.
“Conservatives, Catholics, the Cold War, and the Constitution
of the United States” Faculty Development Conference,
Collin College, Frisco, Texas, Wednesday, January 4, 2012.
“A Defense of the Sage on the Stage” Spring 2010
Associate Faculty Conference (Striving for Excellence: Best
Practices), Collin College, Frisco,
Texas, Saturday, February 20, 2010.
“The
Last Roar of the Church Militant in America?” Phi Alpha Theta/Oklahoma State
University History Department
Colloquium, Stillwater,
Oklahoma, Wednesday, November 12, 2008.
Textbook Review
Reviewed (for the “Ayers Review Project”): Ayers,
Edward L., Lewis L. Gould, David M. Oshinsky, and Jean R.
Soderlund.
American Passages: A History
of the United States, Vol. I: To 1877. 4th ed. Wadsworth/Cengage
Learning, 2012.
College Service
New Student Orientations (Faculty Roundtables),
Collin College – Preston Ridge Campus, 2010-2011
Hiring Committee, History, Collin College –
Spring Creek Campus, Spring 2011
Cultivating Scholars Participant, Collin College,
Preston Ridge Campus, Spring 2010
Faculty Advising (“Complete the Core”), Collin
College – Preston Ridge Campus, Spring 2010
History Program Objectives Committee – History
Department, Spring 2011
Great Teachers Retreat Committee, Collin College
– Preston Ridge Campus, Spring-Summer 2010
Hiring Committee, Political Science, Collin
College – Central Park Campus, Spring 2010
Hiring Committee, Economics, Collin College –
Preston Ridge Campus, Spring 2010
Awards and Honors
Department of History Graduate Research
Fellowship, 2007-2008
Distinguished Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2007,
2007-2008, 2008-2009
Berlin B. Chapman Endowed Scholarship, 2006-2007
Homer L. Knight Graduate Award, 2006-2007
Golden Key International Honor Society Nominee,
2007
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, Oklahoma State
University, 2006
LeRoy H. Fischer Graduate Research Paper Award,
2005-2006
Department of History Graduate Research
Fellowship, 2005-2006
Berlin
B. Chapman Endowed Scholarship, 2004-2005
Robberson Award, Oklahoma State
University, 2004-2005
Conferences Attended
Faculty Development Conference, Collin College,
Preston Ridge Campus, Frisco, Texas, Wednesday, January 4, 2012.
Associate Faculty Conference (Striving for Excellence:
Best Practices), Collin College, Preston Ridge Campus, Frisco,
Texas, Saturday, February 20, 2010
Legacies Dallas History
Conference, Southern Methodist University, Saturday, Jan 30,
2010
Professional Membership
American
Catholic Historical Association