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Gene Rhea Tucker
gtucker@uta.edu
RÉSUMÉ
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.
A photograph of me preparing
for the National Geographic Bee in 1993
A photograph of me at working
at the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas in 2004
A photograph of me attending a THSO
forum I helped put together on the topic “What is Transatlantic History?”
A photograph of me presenting
“Booze and Bootlegging in Thurber” at the W. K. Gordon Center, July 27,
2008
A drawing of me made by one of my
students at
Tarleton while I was teaching in 2008
A
photograph of me presenting
“La Salle, the Mississippi, and the Historians” at the SHD Conference in 2009
A
caricature of me made by some of my students on
the chalkboard at Navarro College in 2010
A photograph of my corner
of the office at UTA, UH 318, in 2011
A
photograph of me after
graduating with my Ph.D. at UTA in May 2011
A
photograph of me in
my office at UTA in February 2012
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Scholar profile
Graduate:
2006-2011 The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas
Ph.D. in Transatlantic
History, May 2011
Dissertation: “Place-Names, Conquest, and Empire:
Spanish and Amerindian Conceptions of Place in the New World” – Committee:
Douglas Richmond, chair; John Garrigus; Imre Demhardt; Kimberly Breuer
Comprehensive Examination Fields:
The Charting of Empires; Transatlantic Slavery; Migration, Settlement, and
Travel Writing
UTA
Profile System
2004-2006 Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas
Master of Arts Degree in
History, May 2006
Thesis: “Oysters,
Macaroni, and Beer: The Texas Pacific Mercantile & Manufacturing Company of
Thurber, Texas” – Committee: T. Lindsay Baker, chair; Christopher Guthrie;
Patricia Zelman
Undergraduate:
2001-2003 Tarleton
State University
Stephenville, Texas
Bachelor of Arts Degree in
History, December 2003
1998-2000 Central Texas College
Killeen, Texas
High School:
1994-1998 Killeen
High School
Killeen, Texas
High School Diploma, May 1998
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July
2011-Present
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas
Lecturer/Adjunct Professor
August
2010-Present
Navarro College
Corsicana, Texas
Adjunct Professor
August 2006-May
2011 The University of
Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Graduate Instructor
June 2008-August
2008 Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas
Adjunct Professor
July 2007-August
2007 Tarleton State
University
Stephenville, Texas
Adjunct Professor
July 2006-August
2006 Tarleton State
University
Stephenville, Texas
Adjunct Professor
July 2005-August
2005 Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas
Graduate Instructor
August 2004-June
2006 Tarleton State
University
Stephenville and Thurber, Texas
Graduate Assistant at the W. K. Gordon Center for
Industrial History of Texas
BOOKS
JOURNAL ARTICLES
PAPERS
- “Explorers, Charts, and Borders: La Salle, Delisle, and
the French Mapping of Texas” – Paper presented at
biannual meeting of the Texas Map Society, October 9, 2010
- “Re-Naming Texas: Mexicanization of Texas Place Names,
1821-1836” – Paper presented
at the annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, March 4,
2010
- “‘7 o’clock and Pay-Day’: The Company Store Employees of
Thurber, Texas” – Paper presented
at the combined meeting of the East Texas Historical Association and West
Texas Historical Association Meeting, February 26, 2010
- “Place-Names and Power: José de Escandón, Indians, and the
Naming of Nuevo Santander” – Paper presented
at the annual meeting of the Conference on Latin American History in
conjunction with the American Historical Association, January 10, 2010
- “La Salle, the Mississippi, and the Historians” – Paper presented
annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries, October 13,
2009
- “Coronelli’s Texan Mississippi: A Reinterpretation of
Coronelli’s 1688 Map of North America” – Paper presented
at the Mid-America Conference on History, September 27, 2007
- “Booze, Brawls, and Big Business: The Importance of
Alcohol and Saloons to the Company Town of Thurber, Texas” – Paper presented
at the annual
meeting of the West Texas Historical Association, March 30, 2007
- “The Death and Casual Rebirth of Thurber” – Paper presented
at the annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, March 8,
2007
- “Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer: The Business Enterprises of
the Texas Pacific Mercantile & Manufacturing Company of Thurber,
Texas” – Paper presented
at the annual meeting of the West Texas Historical Association, March 31,
2006
PRESENTATIONS
- “Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer: Thurber, Texas, and the
Company Store” – Presentation
and book signing at the Boyce Ditto Public Library, Mineral Wells, TX,
November 10, 2012
- “Oysters, Macaroni & Beer: The Company Store in
Thurber” – Presentation
and book signing at the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of
Texas, Tarleton State University, October 14, 2012
- “Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer: Thurber, Texas, and the
Company Store” – Presentation
and book signing at Tarrant County College, Southeast Campus Library,
October 11, 2012
- “Submitting and Presenting Papers at Academic Conferences”
– Brown Bag Presentation to Transatlantic History Student Organization,
UTA, February 22, 2012
- “Researching Your Dissertation” – Brown Bag Presentation
to Transatlantic History Ph.D. Students, UTA, December 1, 2010
- “The Spanish Name the New World” – Presentation
to Phi Alpha Theta, UTA, October 13, 2010
- “The Syncretization of Place-Names: Spanish and Amerindian
Conceptions of Place in the New World” – THSO’s
Second Annual Prospectus/Dissertation Workshop for Ph.D. Students,
UTA, April 20, 2009
- “The Cosmology and Cartography of the Inca” – Guest
lecture in Dr.
Douglas Richmond’s class, Modern Latin America (HIST 4367), UTA, March
13, 2009
- “Booze and Bootlegging in Thurber” – Presentation
at the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, Tarleton State
University, July 27, 2008
- “Oysters,
Macaroni, and Beer: The Texas Pacific Mercantile & Manufacturing
Company of Thurber, Texas” – Presentation
at the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, Tarleton State
University, May 21, 2006
BOOK REVIEWS
- Review of Juan Domínguez de Mendoza: Soldier and
Frontiersman of the Spanish Southwest, 1627-1693, edited by France V.
Scholes, Marc Simmons, and José Antonio Esquibel. Terrae
Incognitae. (Forthcoming 2013)
- Review of Early American Cartographies, edited by
Martin Brückner. Terrae Incognitae. (Forthcoming 2013)
- Review of The Ópatas: In Search of a Sonoran
People, by David A. Yetman. Bulletin of Latin American Research
32, no. 2 (April 2013): 236-238.
- Review of The Eve of Spain: Myths of Origins in the
History of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Conflict, by Patricia
E.Grieve. Historical Geography 40 (2012): 225-226.
- Review of Where the West Begins: Debating Texas
Identity, by Glen Sample Ely. Fronteras.
21 (Fall 2012): 5.
- Review of The Image of the World: 20 Centuries of World
Maps, by Peter Whitfield. Terrae Incognitae 43, no. 2
(September 2011): 185-186.
- Review of Promised Land: Solms, Castro, and Sam
Houston’s Colonization Contracts, by Jefferson Morgenthaler. Agricultural
History 85, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 426-427.
- Review of The Wrecking of La Salle’s Ship Aimable
and the Trial of Claude Aigron, by Robert S. Weddle. Terrae
Incognitae 42 (2010): 82-83.
- “The
Interconnected Atlantic World.” Review of The Atlantic World: A
History, 1400-1888, by Douglas Egerton, Alison Games, Donald R.
Wright, Kris E. Lane, and Jane G. Landers. H-TGS, H-Net Reviews. April
2010, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=26172.
- Review of The Wrecking of La Salle’s Ship Aimable
and the Trial of Claude Aigron, by Robert S. Weddle. East Texas
Historical Journal 48, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 105-107.
- Review of The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber,
1886-1933, by Mary Jane Gentry, T. Lindsay Baker, ed. The Mining
History Journal (2009): 78-79.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
- Danny McQueen GTA
Teaching Award, University of Texas at Arlington, 2012
- Phi Kappa Phi, University of Texas at
Arlington, 2011
- Summer
Dissertation Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington, 2010
- Various Travel Awards,
University of Texas at Arlington, 2007-2010
- University
Scholar, President’s
Convocation for Academic Excellence, University of Texas at Arlington,
2009
- Who’s Who
Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, 2008-2009
- Jenkins
Garrett Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper on Greater
Southwestern History, for “Coronelli’s Texan Mississippi: A
Reinterpretation of the America Settentrionale of 1688,” the
University of Texas at Arlington, 2008
- Graduate Dean Doctoral
Fellowship, University of Texas at Arlington, 2006-2011
- Various TSU Travel Awards, 2005-2006
- Outstanding Poet Award, Tarleton’s Anthology, 2002
- Killeen High School Baseball Academic Athlete Award, 1998
- National
Geographic Bee Texas State Finalist, 1994
- National Geographic Bee Texas
State Finalist, Top 10, 1993
- National Geographic Bee Texas State Finalist, Top 10, 1992
SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
OTHER SCHOLARLY WORK
- Blog Editor for Terrae Inblognitae,
the blog of the Society for the History of Discoveries, 2012-present
- Manuscript reviewer for Traversea:
Journal of Transatlantic History, 2012-present
- Manuscript review for the University of Oklahoma Press,
2011
- Proofreading and suggested edits for Charting
Chartered Companies: Concessions to Companies as Mirrored in Maps,
1600-1900 by Ben Huseman, 2010
- Interviewed in Transatlantic
History in Texas: University of Texas at Arlington on the American Historical Association’s
Historians TV, 2010
- Student editor and article author for a proposed Facts on
File Encyclopedia of
the Caribbean, 2009-2011; see articles
authored
- “Bootlegging
in the Thurber Area,” blog entry for the Industrious Historian,
a project of the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas,
Tarleton State University, 2009
- Aided in transcription of diary entries for Two
Boston Brahmins in Goethe’s Germany: The Travel Journals of Anna and
George Ticknor by George Ticknor and Anna Ticknor, edited by
Thomas Adam and Gisela Mettele, 2009
- Cursory aid in research and manuscript preparation for The
Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber, 1886-1933 by Mary Jane
Gentry, edited by T. Lindsay Baker, 2008
- “Bibliography
of Thurber Material,” online bibliography at the W. K. Gordon Center
for Industrial History of Texas, Tarleton State University, 2006-2010
COURSES: TAUGHT and
FORTHCOMING
· Spanish
and British Empires in America, 1492-1830 (2011)
· Spanish
and British Empires in America, 1492-1830 (2012)
· History
of Cartography
· Texas to 1850
· History of Spain and Portugal
· History of Texas
· United States History I (The United States, 1607-1865, U.
S. History Through 1877, & American History I)
· United States History II (The United States, 1865-Present,
U. S. History Since 1877, & American History II)
· World History Since 1700
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Professional Organizations
American Historical Association
The Conference on Latin American History
East Texas Historical
Association
Society for the History of
Discoveries
Texas Map Society
Texas State Historical Association
Thurber Historical Association
West Texas Historical
Association
Memberships and Offices
2011-Present Phi Kappa Phi,
Chapter 300, University of Texas at Arlington
2008-2010 Vice-President of the Transatlantic History Student
Organization
2007-2008 President of the
Transatlantic History Student Organization
2006-2007 Vice-President of the
Transatlantic History Student Organization
2006-2011 Transatlantic History
Student Organization
2006-Present Phi
Alpha Theta, Omicron Kappa Chapter, UTA
2006
Secretary of Phi Alpha Theta,
Alpha Beta Chi Chapter, Tarleton
2005
Treasurer of Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Beta Chi Chapter, Tarleton
2004-Present
Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Beta Chi Chapter, Tarleton
1994-1998
National Honor Society
1994
National Junior Honor Society
ACADEMIC REFERENCES
The University of Texas at
Arlington
Dr. Douglas
Richmond
Dr. John Garrigus
Dr.
Imre Demhardt
Dr.
Kimberly Breuer
Dr. Sam Haynes
Dr.
Stephen Reinhardt
Dr.
Richard Francaviglia
Dr. Dennis
Reinhartz
Tarleton State University
Dr. T. Lindsay Baker
Dr. Craig Clifford
Dr. Richard Cruz
Dr. Christopher Guthrie
Dr. Jerry
Jones
Dr. Michael Pierce
Navarro College
Dr. Karen Waugh
Dr. Linda Davis
SOME LINKS
The
University of Texas at Arlington
The University of Texas at Arlington:
Department of History Page
The University of Texas at
Arlington: Transatlantic History
Transatlantic History
Student Organization
Navarro College
Tarleton
State University
Tarleton State University:
Social Sciences Page
W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial
History of Texas at Thurber, Texas
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