Address: Department
of History
Box 19529
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas 76019
University Hall, Room 319
Telephone: (817) 272-2861
E-Mail: cawthon2@uta.edu
Fax: 817-272-2852
EDUCATION
Ph.D.,
Legal History, University of Virginia, 1985
M.A., Legal History, University of Virginia, 1981
B.A., History and Political Science (double major), Louisiana Tech University,
1978
CoURSES
TAUGHT
History
of England, parts 1 and 2
Early Modern England
British Constitutional History
Great Trials
Civil Liberties and the Law
Western Civilization, parts 1 and 2
Historical methods for undergraduates
Graduate colloquium on early modern England
Graduate colloquium on modern Britain
Graduate colloquium on European medical history
Graduate seminar on early modern London
Graduate seminar on modern British legal history
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Associate
Professor of History, University of Texas at Arlington, 1994-present
Distinguished Teaching Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, 1996-2001
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, 1988-1994
Visiting Professor, Department of History, University of New Hampshire,
1986-1988
Visiting Professor, Center for Law and Society, Brown University, 1983-1986
BOOKS
Medicine
on Trial, ABC-CLIO
Press, 2004
English Law and the American Experience,
(ed. with David Narrett) Texas A &M University Press,
1994
The French Revolution:
Paris and the Provinces,
(ed. with Steven Reinhardt) Texas
A&M University Press, 1992
The
Mind of an Assassin: Daniel
M’Naghten and Anglo-American Insanity Law
Memoirs of a Forgotten War: Americans
and Dartmoor prison, 1812-1815
A History of Britain
(Thompson Publishing, under contract)
ESSAYS
AND JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Sir
Bernard Spilsbury,” in Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography
(New DNB), 2004
“Keith Simpson,” in Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
(New DNB), 2004
“James Scarlett, 1st
Baron Abinger," in
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
2004
“The Guiteau Case and
Anglo-American Insanity Law,” in
Historic U.S. Court Cases (Ed.
James Johnston),
Garland Publishing, 2000, 2nd edition
“Dogs and Dogma: Medico-Legal Theory and the Problem of Rabies in England,
1750-1850,”
Essays in European History,
Vol. III
(Southern Historical Association, European History Section)
1997.
“Rough Work and Tough Logic: The
English Roots of Texas Workers’ Compensation Law,”
English Law and the American Experience,
Texas A&M University Press (1994) , pp. 83-99.
“Apocrypha from the Victorian Workplace,”
Victorian Periodicals Review,
Vol. 25 (Summer, 1992), pp. 56-63.
“New Life for the Deodand: Occupational
Accidents and the Judicial Process,”
American Journal
of Legal History (April,
1989), (Vol. 33, No. 2), pp. 137-147).
“Thomas Wakley and the
Medical Coronership,”
Medical History (April,
1986), pp. 191-202.
TEACHING
AWARDS
Nominee
from College of Liberal Arts for statewide Piper Teaching Award, 2004
Nominee from UTA for Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year, 1998
Nominee from UTA for Carnegie Foundation U.S. Professor of the Year, 1997
Nominee from UTA for statewide Piper Teaching Award, 1997
Academy of Distinguished Teachers, UTA, 1996-2001
Chancellor’s Teaching Award (outstanding undergraduate professor at UTA), 1993
Outstanding Academic Advisor at UTA, 1993
Nominee from College of Liberal Arts for Chancellor’s Teaching Award, 1991,
1992
Gertrude Golladay Teaching Award (outstanding professor in College of Liberal
Arts), 1991
Western
Conference on British Studies member
Local arrangements committee chair, 2006
Life
member of the European History Section, Southern Historical Association
Program
committee, 2005-2008
Chair,
program committee, 2008
American
Association for the History of Medicine member
Advisor
for medical students submitting historical manuscripts for the Osler Prize
Southwestern
Pre-law Advisors’Association member
Phi
Kappa Phi—charter member for University of Texas at Arlington