Academic Background
Postdoc Carnegie Mellon University, NSF Cold War Science & Technology Studies Program, 1998-2000
Ph.D. University of Kentucky
M.A. Lamar University
B.A. Lamar University
   

Dissertation Committee:

George Herring, Chair
Lance Banning, Pre-1865 Intensive Preparation
David Hamilton, Post-1865 Intensive Preparation
Eric Christianson, General Preparation
  
  

 Annotated Graduate Transcript
for Ph.D. and M.A.

Special Field: Post-1945 US political/diplomatic/cultural

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 HIS 650B -- Special Topics: US Foreign Policy. Seminar taught at the University of Kentucky by Prof. George Herring on post-1898 US diplomatic history

 (audit)
 HIS 574 -- Diplomacy and Foreign Policy of the US to 1919. Undergraduate course taught by Prof. Herring at UK

 (audit)
 HIS 575 -- Diplomacy and Foreign Policy of the US since 1919. Undergraduate course taught at by Prof. Herring UK.

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 HIS 700 -- Special Problems in History. Research seminar taught by Prof. Herring at UK, focusing on post-1945 US history. (Paper ultimately published.)

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 HIS 537 -- Seminar in US History: Vietnam Era. Research seminar taught by Prof. John Carroll at Lamar University.
 Intensive Preparation: Pre-1865 US History

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 HIS 630 -- Readings in American History: Colonial America. Seminar at UK taught by Prof. Dan Smith covering pre-history America through 1763, with strong emphasis on social and religious history.

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 HIS 631N -- Readings in American History: The American Revolutionary Period. Seminar taught at UK by Prof. Lance Banning covering the period from 1763 through 1814 with emphasis on intellectual history and the ideological/republicanist school of interpretation.

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 HIS 632 -- Readings in American Histoy: Age of Jackson, Civil War, and Reconstruction. Seminar taught at UK by Prof. Mark Summers focusing on political history and sectionalism.

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 HIS 710 -- Seminar in American History. Research seminar taught by Prof. Banning at UK, focusing on the Revolutionary period.

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 HIS 532 -- Readings in US History: Age of Jackson. Seminar taught by Prof. Beeler Satterfield at Lamar, concentrating on economic and interpretive issues of the period.
 Intensive Preparation: Post-1865 US History

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 HIS 695 -- Independent Readings. Readings supervised by Prof. Mark Summers on gilded age politics.

(audit)
 HIS 633 -- Readings in American History: Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Audited seminar taught by Prof. David Hamilton at UK, focusing on politics and social transformation.

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 HIS 634 -- Readings in American History: America Since 1920. Seminar taught at UK by Prof. Hamilton dealing with US politics through the present and examining corporatism as an historical model.

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 HIS 537 -- Seminar in US History: The US in the 1930s. Research seminar taught by Professor Walter Sutton at LU, concentrating on the social history of the period.

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 HIS 4341 -- World War II. Undergraduate course taken for graduate credit, taught by Professor Ralph Wooster at LU, with emphasis on military history.
General Preparation: History of Sciene & Technology

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 HIS 695V -- Independent Readings. Readings supervised by Prof. Eric Christianson at UK on issues of science and technology in the US.

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 HIS 695 -- Independent Readings. Readings supervised by Professor Christianson at UK on the social construction of technological systems.
Miscellaneous coursework:

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 HIS 596 -- US Family in Historical Perspective. Undergraduate course taken for graduate credit, taught at UK by Prof. Dan Smith, the course considered the development of families from colonial times to the present, with special emphasis on gender issues.

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 HIS 4335 -- Religion in America. Undergraduate course taken for graduate credit, taught by Prof. John Storey at LU, tracing religious developments with special emphasis on the origins of fundamentalism.

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 HIS 534 -- Europe Since 1865. Seminar taught by Prof. Howard Mackey at LU, with concentration on the social transformations of Victorian Britain.

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 HON 431 -- Russian Studies. Undergraduate honors seminar taken for graduate credit, taught by Prof. Joseph Lambert at LU.

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 ENG 536 -- Restoration Drama. Seminar taught by Professor Blaine Thomas at LU.
 

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