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Interim  Chair, Dept. of History
Regents Professor of History and Hardin Distinguished Professor of American History

EDUCATION	Texas Christian University, Ph.D., 1984, United States History. Texas Christian University, Master of Arts, 1975, History. Texas Christian University, Bachelor of Arts, 1973.  History and Political Science.
MAJOR FIELDS	United States History—American West, Texas and the Southwest, Native American Studies, Twentieth Century United States, U. S. Diplomatic, American Intellectual, Public History.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE	Midwestern State University, 1985-present. Texas Woman’s University, 1980-1985. Brookhaven Community College, Dallas, 1978-1979 (part-time). The University of Texas at Dallas, 1979 (part-time). Texas Christian University and Tarrant County Junior College, Northeast Campus, 1975-1979 (part-time).
COURSES TAUGHT	United States History to 1865 United States History since 1865 American Frontier, 1607-1839 American West, 1803-1890 Texas History Historic Preservation Practice of State and Local History American Ideas (U. S. Intellectual Tradition) Age of Reform, 1877-1919 (Populism and Progressivism) Plains Indians (Graduate Seminar) United States Diplomatic History, 1898-1989 Research Methods (Graduate Seminar) America:  From the Jazz Age to the Nuclear Age (1919-1945) Recent United States History (1945-1989)
OTHER RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE	Dean, College of Liberal Arts, MSU, 1999-2004 Chair, Graduate Council, MSU, 2001-2002 Director, Division of Humanities, MSU, 1992-1999 Chair, Steering Committee, Institutional Self-Study for the reaffirmation of accreditation with Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, MSU, 1991 Executive Director, Historic Preservation Council of Tarrant County, Texas, September 1981-January 1984.
PUBLICATIONS	Books: Texas Devils:  Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861.   Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 2008.      Tales of Texoma:  Episodes in the History of the Red River Border, ed.  Wichita Falls, TX:  Midwestern State University Press, 2005.   Profiles in Power:  Twentieth Century Texans in Washington,  New Edition, ed. With Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr. and Patrick Cox.  Austin:  University of Texas Press, 2004.                                     Profiles in Power:  Twentieth Century Texans in Washington.  Ed. by Michael Collins and Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr.  Arlington Heights, Ill.:  Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1993.

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