African Americans in South Texas History

Contributors

Contributors Jennifer Borrer earned a master’s degree fromTexasA&M university– Kingsville. she teaches at Callahan High school. Edward Byerly is associate professor of history and geography at Victoria College in Victoria,Texas. He is also coeditor of South Texas Studies and has researched and written on topics related to both history and geography. His article, “The Politics of Topographic Mapping: J. D. Whitney, C. F. Hoffman, and the California state Geological survey, 1860–1874,” won the Doyce Nunis Prize awarded by the Historical society of southern California in 2001. He holds a PhD in history from Arizona state university and an MA in human geography from Western Illinois university. Judith Kaaz Doyle received a PhD in history from the university of Texas at Austin; her doctoral dissertation was entitled “Out of step:Maury Maverick and the Politics of the Depression and the New Deal.” Rob Fink is an assistant professor of educational studies at Hardinsimmons university in Abilene, Texas. He is the coauthor of Love Unbounded:The Influence of First Baptist Church on Abilene,Texas with his wife Tiffany Fink. He also wrote Playing in Shadows: Texas and Negro League Baseball. Fink holds a PhD in history from Texas Tech university. Bruce A. Glasrud is a professor emeritus of history at California state university, East Bay, and a retired dean of the school of Arts and sciences, sul ross state university. He now lives in seguin, Texas. Glasrud specializes in the history of African Americans in the south and west. ฀ 335฀ 336฀ Contributors Robert A. Goldberg is professor of history and director of the Obert C. and Grace A.Tanner Humanities Center at the university of utah. A specialist in u.s. social history, Goldberg received his PhD from the university of Wisconsin at Madison; he has published eight books including Hooded Empire, Grassroots Resistance, and EnemiesWithin. Kenneth W. Howell earned his PhD in history from Texas A&M university–College station.An assistant professor of history at Prairie View A&M, Howell has several publications that focus on the history of Texas and the old south, including Henderson County, Texas, 1846–1861: An Antebellum History; Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton; Beyond Myth and Legend: A Narrative History ofTexas; and Seventh Star of the Confederacy:Texas During the Civil War. Currently, Howell is editing a book on violence in Texas during the reconstruction era. Larry P. Knight’s love of history began in part when he was an“army brat” in Germany. He had no access to television, so he resorted to reading and fell in love with biographies. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at what was southwest Texas state university and his PhD at Texas A&M university. He has taught history at the college level since 1980. Concurrently, he practices his other profession—he is an emergency room rN. Rebecca A. Kosary received her PhD in history from Texas A&M university–College station. she is an assistant professor of history and the director of African American studies at Texas lutheran university in seguin,Texas, where she has taught since 2000. David Louzon received a master’s degree in history from Texas A&M university–Corpus Christi. louzon now lives in san Antonio, Texas, with his family. He conducted his research into the Galvan Ballroom while finishing his master’s degree. Contributors฀ 337฀ Sara R. Massey retired from the university ofTexas Institute ofTexan Cultures at san Antonio where she was a developer of educational materials and Web sites concerning Texas history. she has received a national award for her curriculum project, The Other Cowboys. she is the editor of Black Cowboys of Texas, which won the T. r. Fehrenbach Book Award,the coauthor of Turn of the Century Photographs:San Diego, Texas, and editor of Texas Women on the Cattle Trails, which won the liz Carpenter book award. she now lives on the Gulf Coast of Texas where she is writing a series of biographies, SpiritedWomen ofTexas, for students in elementary schools. Jeanette Nyda Mendelssohn Passty is an associate professor of English at st. Philip’s College in san Antonio, Texas. she received that college’s 2003–2004 Teaching Excellence Award as well as the 2003 NIsOD Medallion for Excellence in Teaching and leadership from the university of Texas at Austin. she was a contributor to American Women Writers: A Critical Reference Guide from Colonial Times to the Present, and author of an American library Association Outstanding Academic Book of 1988...