Twentieth Century American Popular Culture (Especially Popular Music and Film) Countercultural Change in America Twentieth Century American Culture
Current Research Projects
I have started research on a book which traces the ways movies potrayed college professors in the period since 1945. I am finishing a book on how to use music in teaching and interpreting American history at the high school and college levels.
Lights,Camera, History:Portraying the Past in Film(edited with Richard Francaviglia, (Texas A&M Press) Category: Book
2002
Published
"Janis Joplin: The Hippie Blues Singer as Feminist Heroine," THE JOURNAL OF TEXAS MUSIC HISTORY, Spring 2002
Category: Article
Peer reviewed
1999
Published
Feminist Phoenix: The Rise and Fall of a Feminist Counterculture, (Westport, Connecticut and London: Praeger, an imprint of The Greenwood Publishing Group 1999), 233 pp.
Category: Book
Book
1997
Published Jazz-Age Boomtown. With Shirley Rodnitzky. (College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press, 1997) 169 pp. Category: Book
Book
1997
Published
Jazz -Age Boomtown: (Texas A&M University Press), 155 pp.
Category: Book
Book reviews
Presentations and Projects
"Deja Vue All Over Again: Protest Music for the 21st Century"
2005 National American Culture Association in San Diego in April 2005. Also chaired a session on popular music history at this meeting.
"Madison Bridges Over Troubled Waters: New Romance Genres in Recent American Fiction and their Film Adaptations"
2004 Far West American Culture Association in Las Vegas, Nevada, February 6th.
"Bringing Back the 1960s: Historical Emotion through Popular Music"
2000 National American Popular Culture Association Meeting in New Orleans, April 21st.
"Madonna's Foremothers: Non-feminist Singers as Feminist Role Models"
1996 American Culture Association meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 25.
"West Texas Crude: Cultural Life in a Jazz-Age Texas Boomtown"
1994 Far West American Culture Association in Las Vegas, February 5.
"Frontier Flappers: Texas Women in the 1920s"
1993 Far West American Culture Association in Las Vegas, January 20.
"Basil Clemons: Western Photographer"
1992 Far West American Culture Association, in Las Vegas, February 4.
"Popular Response to the Vietnam War"
1988 American Historical Association Regional Conference on the Teaching of History, Denton, Texas, October 29.
"Bob Dylan's Critique of American Society"
1986 at the Western Social Science Association meeting in Reno, Nevada, April.
"Popular Music and New Left History"
1983 The Popular Culture Association Meeting in Wichita, Kansas, April 15.
Affiliations
Learned and Honor Societies
American Studies Association of Texas
American Culture Association
Popular Culture Association
Appointments
Duration
Rank
Department / School
College / Office
University / Company
1977-current
Professor
History Department
College of Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Arlington
1971-1976
Associate Professor
History Department
College of Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Arlington
1967-1970
Assistant Professor
History Department
College of Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Arlington
1966-1967
Instructor
History Department
College of Liberal Arts
The University of Texas at Arlington
1963-1966
Teaching Assistant
University of Illinois
1961-1962
Teacher
Morton West High School
1959-1960
Social Caseworker
Cook County Department of Welfare
Synergistic Activities
University Service (During past 15 years)
University: Faculty Sponsor: Student Peace Action Network (SPAN) 2004-05 Chair, Liberal Arts Faculty Forum 1992-93 President's Advisory Committee (Liberal Arts Representative) 1988-91, 1993-99 Faculty Advisor, Student Congress 1988-90 Faculty Sponsor, Progressive Student Union 1988-96 Faculty Sponsor, Amnesty International 1987-93 Faculty Senate 1988-91, 93-98 Faculty Hearing Panel 98-99 Organized UTA's Symposium on JFK 1982-88
Departmental: Promotion and Tenure 1992-95, 2001 Promotion and Tenure, Chair, 1997-98 Curriculum, Chair 1989-90 Executive 1989-90 Graduate Advisory, History Department, Summer 1985-87 History Fair 1989-93 Media Committee, Chair 1985, 87-2001 Phi Alpha Theta 1989-93, 1995-01 Recruitment-U.S. of Science & Technology 1989-90 Recruitment-U.S. Economic 1989-90 Research Enhancement Review, Chair 1988-89 Recruitment-Women's History 1995-96
Consulting (Since 1979 only)
2004 Reviewed new edition of JFK and a New Generation for Longman, acknowledged in Preface. 2004 Reviewed the new edition of James Roark, The American Promise for Bedford Publishers. 2002 Reviewed textbook, JFK and a New Generation for Longman 2002 Reviewed textbook, After the Fact for McGraw-Hill 2001 Reviewed textbook, History and Historians for Prentice-Hall 1988-89 Consultant for Foreign Service Entrance Exam, 1988, Educational Testing Agency, Princeton, NJ.
Advisory and Editorial Work
2003-04 Member of The Editorial Review Board of THE JOURNAL OF TEXAS MUSIC HISTORY 2000-01 Contributing Advisory Editor, The Historian 1984 Contributing Advisory Editor, Peace and Change 1979 Contributing Advisory Editor, American Studies, 1979-1990 1975 Advisory Editor, Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas, 1975-1985 1972-74 Councilor, The American Studies Association of Texas 1972-74 1971-2004 Founding and continuing Advisory Editor, Popular Music and Society, 1971-current
Administrative Work
Graduate Advisor, History Department, Summer 1985, 1986 Director of Teaching, The Center for Women's Studies, The University of Texas at Arlington, 1973-77
2004 The UTA Athletic Department's Faculty Loyalty Award (April) 1999 The UTA Faculty Big Kahuna Award (November) 1989 Winner, Gertrude Golladay Award as Outstanding Teacher in College of Liberal Arts. 1977 & 1978One of the three Liberal Arts College finalists for Amoco Outstanding Teacher Award each year 1977 One of the three Liberal Arts College finalists for Amoco Outstanding Teacher Award.
Listed In
Directory of American Scholars Who's Who in the South and Southwest Contemporary Authors International Directory of Scholars Who's Who Among America's Teacher, 2002, 2004
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