Gene Rhea Tucker - Lecturer/Adjunct Professor, Ph.D. in Transatlantic History, The University of Texas at Arlington

Gene Rhea Tucker

Lecturer/Adjunct Professor

Ph.D. in Transatlantic History

The University of Texas at Arlington

CONTACT INFORMATION

University of Texas at Arlington

E-mail: gtucker@uta.edu

Office: UH 318

Department Phone: (817) 272-2861

Navarro College

E-mail: gene.tucker@navarrocollege.edu

Office: AB 230

Department Phone: (903) 875-7406

CURRICULUM VITÆ

Curriculum Vitæ

I earned my Bachelor of Arts Degree in History in 2003 from Tarleton State University, located in Stephenville, Texas, about seventy miles southwest of Fort Worth, Texas. In 2006 I finished my thesis in pursuit of my Master of Arts Degree in History at Tarleton. I have taught several sections of both U.S. and world history at Tarleton as an adjunct professor from 2005 to 2008. Between 2006 and 2011 I was a graduate teaching assistant and a graduate instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA); in 2010 I began teaching classes as an adjunct professor at Navarro College in Corsicana; and I have served as a lecturer at UTA from 2011 to the present. At Tarleton I was a graduate assistant at the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, a museum documenting the boom town turned ghost town of Thurber, Texas, where I learned many aspects of public history and how to work with archives and collections. In the fall of 2006 I started work on my Ph.D. in Transatlantic History at the University of Texas at Arlington. I have been a contributing member of Phi Alpha Theta at both Tarleton and UTA and served as President and Vice President of the Transatlantic History Student Organization (THSO), a UTA graduate student organization for anyone interested in the encounters, discoveries, and interaction across the frontiers of the Atlantic Basin. I have helped organize three THSO symposia with internationally known historians. In 2008 I completed my comprehensive exams my dissertation committee approved my dissertation prospectus. In late 2010, the Texas Tech University Press accepted my revised master’s thesis for publication. It was published as Macaroni, Oysters, and Beer: Thurber, Texas, and the Company Store in fall 2012. I earned my Ph.D. in spring 2011, completing my dissertation on place-names in the Spanish New World. My scholarly interests range from the history of cartography, the European empires in the New World, and the history of Texas and a million other places and times.