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CURRICULUM VITAE JOHN MILLER MORRIS August 2012 Office Address: Residence: Department of Political Science and Geography 8905 Bell Mountain Drive University of Texas at San Antonio Austin, Texas 78730 One UTSA Circle San Antonio, Texas 78249-0648 (210) 458-5603 [email protected] I. EDUCATION/EMPLOYMENT HISTORY A. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: DEGREES Ph.D. University of Texas, Joint Ph.D. Degree Program (January, 1992) Geography and Planning (Department of Geography and Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning, Graduate School of Architecture). Interdisciplinary studies in historical geography, American Studies, cultural geography, environmental perception, and cultural ecology. (GPA 3.95/4.00) Dissertation Chairman: Professor Robin Doughty. M.S. University of Texas, School of Architecture (May, 1989) Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning. Areas of concentration: regional development, preservation, urban history, natural resources, and land use. (GPA 3.91/4.00) Thesis Chairman: Professor Terry Jordan-Bychkov, M.A. University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program of Slavic Literature and Language (May, 1982) Areas of concentration: Russian language, history and geographic development, modern literary theory. (GPA 3,9214.00) Thesis Chairman: Professor Sidney Monas. B.A. University of Texas at Austin (1971-72;1973-74) (May, 1974) Summa cum laude Major: Plan II (Honors Program). Areas of concentration: American history and politics, English, and modern languages. (GPA 3.96/4.00) Special Honors Thesis Chairman: Dr. Paul Francis Schmidt. Diplom University of Vienna, Philosophical Faculty (1972-73) Institute of European Studies. Areas of concentration: European history, international law, Russian studies, and philosophy. (GPA 3.7514.0) SUMMER PROGRAMS: Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vermont), Russian Summer Language School University of Sf. Petersburg and Pushkin Institute of Moscow (Russian Federation), Russian studies Universidad Veracruzana (Xalapa, Mexico), History of Mexico, Spanish language Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, LA), Math & Science (National Science Foundation Grant) FOREIGN LANGUAGES Russian, Spanish, French, and German. Former student of Arabic and Italian.

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CURRICULUM VITAE JOHN MILLER MORRIS

August 2012

Office Address Residence Department of Political Science and Geography 8905 Bell Mountain Drive University of Texas at San Antonio Austin Texas 78730 One UTSA Circle San Antonio Texas 78249-0648 (210) 458-5603 johnmorrisutsaedu

I EDUCATIONEMPLOYMENT HISTORY

A EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND DEGREES

PhD University of Texas Joint PhD Degree Program (January 1992) Geography and Planning (Department of Geography and Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning Graduate School of Architecture) Interdisciplinary studies in historical geography American Studies cultural geography environmental perception and cultural ecology (GPA 395400) Dissertation Chairman Professor Robin Doughty

MS University of Texas School of Architecture (May 1989) Graduate Program in Community and Regional Planning Areas of concentration regional development preservation urban history natural resources and land use (GPA 391400) Thesis Chairman Professor Terry Jordan-Bychkov

MA University of Texas at Austin Graduate Program of Slavic Literature and Language (May 1982) Areas of concentration Russian language history and geographic development modern literary theory (GPA 3921400) Thesis Chairman Professor Sidney Monas

BA University of Texas at Austin (1971-721973-74) (May 1974) Summa cum laude Major Plan II (Honors Program) Areas of concentration American history and politics English and modern languages (GPA 396400) Special Honors Thesis Chairman Dr Paul Francis Schmidt

Diplom University of Vienna Philosophical Faculty (1972-73) Institute of European Studies Areas of concentration European history international law Russian studies and philosophy (GPA 375140)

SUMMER PROGRAMS

Middlebury College (Middlebury Vermont) Russian Summer Language School University of Sf Petersburg and Pushkin Institute of Moscow (Russian Federation) Russian studies Universidad Veracruzana (Xalapa Mexico) History of Mexico Spanish language Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge LA) Math amp Science (National Science Foundation Grant)

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Russian Spanish French and German Former student of Arabic and Italian

B EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYMENT 1 Professor (Tenured) Fall 2010 - to date University of Texas at San Antonio Appointment as full professor in Department of Political Science and Geography College of Liberal and Fine Arts 11 Associate Professor (Tenured) Fall 1999-Spring 2010 University of Texas at San Antonio Appointment in Department of Political Science and Geography College of Liberal and Fine Arts Position included teaching of large undergraduate class sections and upper-division courses in Geography of Europe Cultural Geography and Weather and Climate 12 Associate Professor (Visiting) Fall Semester 2004 University of Texas at Austin Appointment in Community and Regional Planning Program Graduate School of Architecture College of Architecture Taught CRP 980-X Planning Theory and Practices to graduate students introduction of urban planning theories and methodologies for first-year graduate students 13 Associate Professor (May 1999-May 2002) and Assistant Professor (tenure-track January 1994-May 1999) University of Texas at San Antonio Joint Appointment in both the Geography Program Division of Social and Policy Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program DISCI College of Education

2 Member of the Faculty University of Texas at Austin (Fall 1996-Spring 2001) Lecturer in the Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

3 Assistant Professor (ViSiting) 31 Pacific Lutheran University Summer 1999 Visiting Assistant Professor Created and taught uppershydivision HIS 385 Twentieth Century Russian History during summer residency at PLU Department of History Tacoma Washington 32 University of Texas at San Antonio Spring 1992-FaIl1993 Visiting Assistant Professor AppOintments in a) Geography Program Division of Social amp Policy Sciences and b) Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program Division of Education Created IDS and GRG curricula and taught five different undergraduate courses 33 Auburn University Auburn Alabama Fall 1990 Visiting Assistant Professor AppOintment in Department of Geography College of Social Sciences Dr Tom Martinson Chairman Classes in World Geography and Human Geography

4 UT -System Lecturer 41 University of Texas at Austin Spring 1993 AppOintment in Department of Geography Dr William Doolittle Chairman Invited replacement for Professor Paul Ward English in teaching twelve sections of GRG 305 introductory World Regional Geography Supervised four Teaching Assistants and lectured to 312 students 42 University of Texas at Austin Spring 1993 Appointment in Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies Dr Michael Katz Director Taught GRG 327 Geography of the Former Soviet Union Funded by US Department of Education (National Resource Centers and Fellowships) this course focused on contemporary issues in Russian history demography agriculture resource use environment nationalism and economic geography 43 University of Texas at San Antonio Fall 1991 AppOintment in Geography Program Division of SOCial and Policy SCiences Dr Richard Jones Discipline Coordinator Classes in World Regional Geography and Cultural Geography

5 Teaching Assistant II 51 University of Texas at Austin 1987-1989 Appointment in Department of Geography Dr Paul English Chairman Eight semesters classroom experience with large undergraduate classes lectured to many hundreds of students enrolled in lab discussion sections for Dr Robin Doughtys This Human World

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52 University of Texas at Austin Spring 1984-Spring 1985 Appointment in Department of Petroleum Engineering Developed the technical writing component for PEN 379 taught technical writing to three semesters of senior petroleum engineering students

6 Research Employment Research Assistant II UT-Austin American Studies Deparrtment (1991) -- assisted Dr W H

Goetzmann in studies of historical cartography and 19th century exploration of Texas Alaska and Canadian North

Research Assistant II UT -Austin Hogg Foundation (1986) -- assisted a team of architects and academics in a study of classic American suburban developments

Research Assistant II UT-Austin Community and Regional Planning (1985) Urban development studies Research Assistant I UT-Austin Slavic Department (1976) Literary research Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms Texas State Senate (1975) appointed by State Senator Max Sherman

legislative procedures and practices

C AWARDS AND HONORS

1 Book Awards

Winner 2008 Robert A Calvert Book Prize Best Book Manuscript on History of American South West or Southwest

Winner 1999 Rupert N Richardson Award - West Texas History Association Winner 1998 San Antonio Conservation Society Citation -- Outstanding Contribution book award Winner 1998 Spur Award for EI Llano Estacado Best Western Nonfiction-Historical Western Writers

of America Winner 1998 Presidio La Bahia Award Sons of the Republic of Texas Winner 1997 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research Texas State Historical Association Winner 1997 T R Fehrenbach Award Texas Historical Commission Winner 1997 Friends of the Dallas Public Ubrary Award for Book making most significant contribution to knowledge Texas Institute of Letters

2 Scholastic Honors

Piper Professor Award (2012) Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation San Antonio statewide college teaching award ($5000)

Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars charter member University of Texas at San Antonio Regents Outstanding Teaching Award (2010) college teaching award ($30000) University of Texas

System Deans Outstanding Teaching Award (1996-97) Undergraduate Level College of Social and Behavioral

Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio Associate Member Southwestern Center for Educational Renewal (1996-1997) Faculty Research Award University of Texas at San Antonio (1994) Hogg Foundation Research Assistantship (1987) University Fellowship University of Texas at Austin Graduate School (1975-77) Summa cum laude BA Degree University of Texas at Austin (1974) Special Honors in Plan II Program University of Texas at Austin Phi Beta Kappa University of Texas at Austin Alpha Chapter (May 1974) Phi Kappa Phi University of Texas at Austin Honors Society (December 1973) Outstanding Humanities Scholar University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts (1972)

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II RESEARCH amp SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

A PUBLICATIONS 1 BOOKS 11 Authorship Published Books

John Miller Morris Taming the Land The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains (College Station Texas Texas AampM University Press 2009 Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series) Book-length study of the agrarian settlement of the Panhandle through the lenses of 1900-1920s regional photography Numerous illustrations 220 pages index Presentation of over a score of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research biographical profiles and historical research Volume One in the six-volume Plains of Ught series on regional photography Winner of the 2008 Calvert Prize for Best Book Manuscript on History of American South West or Southwest Texas AampM University Press

John Miller Morris A Private in the Texas Rangers A T Miller of Company B Frontier Battalion (College Station Texas AampM University Press 2001 Number Three Canseco-Keck History Series) First edition of 5000 copies 384 pp 25 illustrations 4 maps index Social and historical geography of the Texas Rangers of Company B Frontier Battalion Based on the diaries of A T Miller with additional interviews field research and archival research Interdisciplinary study of frontier settlement and cultural geography western lawmen and criminal justice against backdrop of the Rolling Plains Old Greer County and the Texas Panhandle

John Miller Morris EI Uano Estacado Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico 1536-1860 (Austin Texas State Historical Association October 1997) First and second editions in hardback third edition in paperback 414 pp 25 illustrations 4 maps index 25 chapters Texas Historical Geography Western History Environmental History Interdisciplinary study of Spanish and Anglo environmental perception of the Southern High Plains (Llano) bioregion from 1536-1860 Revisionist study of the Coronado Expedition in Texas Spanish exploration and semiotics of the Llano bioregion Anglo literary discovery of the Llano Estacado and official US-Texas exploration impulse from 1820-1860 With seven book awards EI Uano Estacado is the most award-winning publication in the publishing history of the Texas State Historical Association founded in 1897 and the oldest scholarly press in the state Named one of the fifty best modern books of Texas History

John Miller Morris From Coronado to Escalante the Explorers of the Spanish Southwest (New York Chelsea House Publishers 1992) [ISBN 0-7910-1300-6 cloth 0-7910-1523-8 paper $1295 111 pp illustrations Index] Traces early history and personalities of Spanish exploration in the American Southwest and Mexico Focuses on the Coronado Expedition of 1540-1542 Popular title in the World Explorers series Six editions by 2001

12 Authorship Edited Book

John Miller Morris editor Narrative of the Coronado Expedition Relacion de la Jornada de Clbola (Chicago R R Donnelley amp Sons 2002) English-Spanish bilingual edition of the classic 1560s narrative by Pedro de Castaneda of the travels of the Coronado Expedition of 1540-42 Special100th anniversary edition in the Lakeside Classics series (published as annual volume from 1902-date) Researched and prepared hundreds of modern annotations for bilingual text wrote major new historical introduction advised and consulted on translations illustrations new cartography and index

13 Authorship Current Book(s)-in-Development

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John Miller Morris The Sweet Long-Ago The Lost Photographers of the South Plains (Volume Two in Plains ofUght series) Fall 2013 submission to TAMU Press Cultural geography work on the turn-of-theshycentury outdoor photographers of the South Plains region Pioneer photographers of Lubbock Midland Big Spring Tahoka Plainview etc Visual documentation of settlement ranching agriculture and environmental transformation Presentation of almost a score of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research biographical profiles and historical research

John Miller Morris The Old Home Place The Lost Photographers of the Rolling Plains (Volume Three in Plains of Ught series) Summer 2012 submission to TAMU Press Photo-historical book on the 1900shy1920s outdoor photographers of the Rolling Plains region of Texas encompassing 26 counties with cities such as Abilene Wichita Falls Post Snyder Sweetwater Electra Burkburnett etc Pioneer photographers and their visual documentation of main streets oil booms ranching agriculture technology and environmental transformation Presentation of almost forty of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research

14 Authorship Book Chapters

Chapter One John Miller Morris First Contact Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of Texas and Mexico in Ty Cashion and Frank de la Teja editors The Human Tradition in Texas (New York Scholarly Resources 2001) Hardback and paperback editions

Chapter Thirteen John Miller Morris First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of the Llano Estacado in Richard and Shirley Flint editors The Coronado Expedition from the Distance of460 Years (Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press Spring 2003) Hardback

Chapter Two John Miller Morris When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacado The Glorious Past and Uncertain Future of the High Plains Family Farm in Sherry L Smith editor The Future of the Southern High Plains (Norman University of Oklahoma Press 2003) Hardback and paperback editions

15 Authorship Book Introductions

Lt James William Abert New Introduction by John Miller MorriS Expedition to the Southwest An 1845 Reconnaissance of Colorado New Mexico Texas and Oklahoma (Lincoln Neb University of Nebraska Press Bison Books 1999 [ISBN 0-8032-5935-2]) 121 pp Provided New Introduction for university press reprinting of Lt James W Aberts 1846 official government report on his exploration of the Southwest United States

W John L Sullivan New Introduction by John Miller MorriS Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers (Lincoln Neb University of Nebraska Press Bison Books 2001 [ISBN 0-8032-9287-2) American West series) 316 pp Initiated reprint request researched and wrote New Introduction for Sgt John Sullivans rare 1909 memoir of life in the Texas Rangers

16 Book EssaylResearch Contribution

Essay John Miller Morris The Search for Cona An Inquiry into Historical Geography (Essay 41) for Marian L Martinello Gillian E Cook and Linda Woodson Modes of Inquiry Voices of Scholars Across the Fields of Study (Carrollton Texas Alliance Press 1998) pp107-12 Re-edited and new edition in 2005

Research Contribution William H Goetzmann and Glyndwr Williams The Atlas of North American Exploration From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole (New York Prentice Hall General Reference 1992 [ISBN 0-13-297128-3) 224 pps Contributor of research articles map research and

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proof supervision for a) To Santa Fe from the East the Explorations of Pierre and Paul Mallet 1739-40 b) The Scouts of New Spain Spanish Trailblazers in the Old Southwest 1786-1808 c) Russia Meets America The Russians in Alaska 1790-1863 and d) Sewards Icebox U S Alaska and the Yukon Gold Rush 1866-98 Co-authorship of articles and maps for a) The Bleak Canadian North Searches for the Northwest Passage 1818-45 and b) Cold and Tragic Shores Searches for Franklin and the Northwest Passage 1846-1905

2 Published Articles

The (Illustrated) Pecos River in Frontier History in Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin eds Southwestern American Literature Volume 33 No2 (Spring 2008) pages 23-38

Exploration in Ron Tyler Douglas E Barnett and Roy Barkley editors The New Handbook of Texas Volume Two (Austin Texas State Historical AssOCiation 1996) pages 917-928 Encyclopedic article on the history of exploration in Texas

Central Texas Street Photography Snapshots on the Cultural Landscape of Public Ufe in Donald Lyons and Paul Hudak eds Geographic Perspectives on the Texas Region (Denton UniverSity of North Texas 1998) 71-80 (ASSOCiation of American Geographers 93rd Conference)

3 Book Reviews

Suzanne Starling Land is the Cry Warren Angus Ferris Pioneer Texas Surveyor and Founder of Dallas County (Austin Texas State Historical Association 1998) Published as the lead book review in Southwestern Historical Quarterly VoICII No4 (April 1999) 525-26

Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nuevea The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest (Niwot Col University Press of Colorado 1997) Published in PanhandleshyPlains Historical Review VolLXXII (1999)

B MAJOR PERFORMANCE I EXHIBIT I MEDIA

1 TelevisionNideo

liThe Texas Rangers -- History Channel (Cable-TV Channel 28) North Hollywood CA one-hour program in The Enforcers series Featured speaker on national television show about the history of the Texas Rangers Worked with Bo Koster Associate Producer of Greystone Communications on this episode in the History Channel series The Enforcers Personal interviews filmed at my home loaned historic photos and did consulting from August-December 2000 Advised on draft scripts and draft video version during production Provided research checked facts and accuracy (VHS and DVD available)

Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective -- PBS-KACV Amarillo Texas one-hour program Worked with Ellen Robertson Neal Director of Public Relations for PBS affiliate in Amarillo on 1999 television show about the explorers of the Texas Panhandle Filmed interviews at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and KACV-TV studios Loaned producers rare photographs and prints for this PBS special The broadcast program and videotape Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective (March 1999) has been used as a promotional incentive during membership drives (Videotape available)

2 Traveling Museum Exhibit

Plains of Light Fields of Vision Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains 1905-1915

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(Seven large exhibit panels and heavy packing case) Traveling photo-historical exhibit on the unsung regional photographers of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains after the turn of the century Identified researched designed and produced this Southwest exhibit on frontier photographers Assembled by the Institute for Texas Cultures in San Antonio this exhibit featured rare and enlarged period photographs silk-screened text and captions a color lithograph map and Texas Quilt background accent designs From 1996 through 1998 the Plains of Light Fields of Vision exhibit toured the museums and public libraries within a fifty county area of Texas Thousands of Northwest Texas residents enjoyed this traveling exhibit

3 Radio and Television

The Future of the Southern Plains 30-minute book interview Glenn Mitchell Show National Public Radio-Dallas KERA (Channel 13) November 2004

Book Interview A Private in the Texas Rangers 30-minute TV show produced by Polly Price for Time Warner-Channel 19 San Antonio August 2001 multiple airings

Texas Place Names 30 minute guest interview for San Antonio public TV show Ordinary People (Paragon Cable TV 20) March 1997 (Videotape available)

In Search of Cona THN Network TV satellite broadcast for Judy Weills Spanish OneEspanol Uno distance learning course October 11 1996 San Antonio Texas

The Meaning of Texas radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV August 191996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

The Coronado Expedition radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV April 1996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

C RESEARCH MATERIALS

BOOK Assembled 4000+ volume research library with specialization in Southwestern historical geography There are many rare items maps publications documents diaries and manuscripts in the collection Acquainted with leading book and map dealers skills in historic document evaluation

PHOTOGRAPHY Assembled 10000+ historic photographs and real photo postcards of Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma The Morris Real Photo Colection of Texas (1900-1930) is the finest period real photo collection for the state Loans andor permissions of visual materials to county museums heritage associations colleagues and media

III SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

TitleDescription DateSponsorPlace

A INVITED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

From the Gulf to the Rockies Cartography of the Fort Worth amp Denver Railroad July 272012 Joint Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society and the Texas Map Society invited one-hour digital media presentation University of Denver College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Denver Colorado

Then and Now Photography of the North Texas Prairies and Plains October 222010 Invited 15 hour digital media presentation and speech Friday evening for the Friends of the UT-Arlington Library Dr Gerald Saxon program chair

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Home Home on the Llano February 262010 Invited conference keynote address and related media presentation for 150th Annual Meeting of the Historical Society ofNew Mexico Western Heritage Museum Theater Hobbs New Mexico

Central Texas Archaeology From Bone amp Stone to Flora amp Fauna February 19 2010 Invited one-hour digital media presentation Capital Area Master Naturalist Program Westcave Nature Preserve Travis County Texas

Colonial Cartography on the Far Frontier April 5 2009 Texas Map Society Spring 2009 Meeting Conference Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers Co-sponsored by the Political Science amp Geography Department University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus San Antonio Texas

The Pecos River in Frontier History March 9 2007 Invited paper and CD-ROM digital presentation for statewide conference The Pecos River Past Present Future Texas River Center Texas State University San Marcos Texas

Small Worlds of the Southern Great Plains February 252005 Wildlife Society Texas Chapter Invited plenary presentation from 8AM-10AM Amarillo Convention Center Amarillo Texas CD-ROM presentation and written speech

Gone to Texas Case Studies in Cultural Geography March 5 2004 Texas State Historical Association 108th Annual Meeting Session 23 Dr Jerry Thompson Chair Austin Texas CD-ROM presentation and written paper

Changing Places Photography Symposium October 20 2001 Invited presentation for the Shifting Landscapes Conference (October 18-20 2001) Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas Co-organized this symposium with the noted professional photographers Rob Amberg and Wayne Lambert

Spanish Cartography of the High Plains April 27 2001 Invited presentation Museum Interpretation of the Spanish Conquest and Colonial PeriodS 1492-1820 Symposium Baylor University and StreckershyMayborn Museum Complex Waco Convention Center (April 7-28 2001) Waco Texas

When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacada April 10 2001 Invited presentation The Future ofthe Southern High Plains Symposium Dr Sherry Smith presiding Southern Methodist University Clements Center Dallas Texas

Commencing a New Century History Technology and Visual Culture in the Texas Panhandle April 27 2000 Invited illustrated presentation Friends of the Cornette Library 25th Annual Dinner Meeting at West Texas AampM University Canyon Texas

First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of Blanco Canyon Keynote address on April 17 2000 7-9PM Invited illustrated presentation for the Contemporary Vantage on the Coronado Expedition April 14-18 2002 Conference sponsored by New Mexico Highlands University and the Floyd County Historical Museum Plains Baptist Assembly Hall in Blanco Canyon [Floyd County] Texas

The Search for Cona Finding a Literary Sense of Place for the Coronado Expedition in Texas September 23 1999 Invited presentation for Our Hidden Hispanic Heritage Second Annual Legends of the Southwest Symposium in Formby Room Southwest Collection Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas

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Lo Llano Europeans on the High Plains of 1541 March 1 1998 Invited presentation for The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest Mogollon Conference (February 28-March1 1998) Albuquerque New Mexico

Springlands and Settlements Mexicos Ojos de Aguas April 15 1989 Invited paper delivered at University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies First Annual Symposium Cultural Adaptation at the Edge of the Spanish Empire A Northern View Sid Richardson Hall Austin Texas

The Coronado Expedition in Texas It November 24 1993 Invited presentation Division of Education and Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San AntoniO San Antonio Texas

Navajo Agriculture and the Dinetah Frontier April 20 1992 Invited presentation Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio Texas

Mysteries of the Llano Estacado December 13 1988 Invited presentation Department of Geography University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Series Austin Texas

The Iron Horse on the High Plains Guidebooks and Environmental Imagery 1872-1892 May 1 1990 Paper and invited presentation delivered at New Mexico State University Department of Earth Sciences Las Cruces New Mexico

B REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

Commentary - Postcards as Documentary Evidence on the Texas Past (Session 5) March 1 2012 Texas State Historical ASSOCiation 116111 Annual Meeting Houston Texas

Homesteading the Western Llano Estacado April 1 2011 digital media presentation for Farming and Ranching on the Last Frontier Session West Texas Historical Association 8lfh Annual Meeting Lubbock Texas

Ethnic Photography and the Cultural Geography of African-Americans in Texas April 16 2010 digital media presentation Panel One for Third Annual African American Studies SympOsium Denman Room University Center UT-San Antonio

A Field Guide to West Texas Postal History 1850s-1890s March 31 2007 Session paper and CDshyROM illustrated presentation delivered to West Texas History AssOCiation 84th Annual Meeting Abilene Texas

Commentary - Business in the Borderlands (Session 48) March 10 2007 Texas State Historical Association 111 th Annual Meeting San AntoniO Texas

E-History or Googling West Texas A Visual Case Study in Web-based Research April 3 2004 West Texas Historical Association Session Six Abilene Texas (CD-ROM presentation and written remarks)

First Arrivals The Caprock Springs of the Eastern Llano Estacado March 18 2004 Association of American Geographers -1OOth Annual Meeting Session 5450 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The Real Photo Artists of West Texas 1907-1920 April 11 2003 West Texas Historical Association 80th Annual Meeting Session Four Lubbock Texas

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Texas Visual Historiography The Regional Real Photo Artists 1906-1919 October 10 2000 Coshyorganized session with Dr Ty Cashion of The Visual Texas Western History Association 40th Annual Conference San Antonio Texas

Shadow Catchers of the Texas Panhandle March 6 1998 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting Austin Texas Organized Session 21 Studies in Texas Photo-history

Landscape Artists of the Southern High Plains Romance to Realism March 28 1998 Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting Boston Massachusetts

Plains of Light Landscape Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains April 4 1997 Session chair and presentation for Historical Geography -- Frontiers Boundary Disputes and Visualization Association of American Geographers 93rd Annual Meeting Fort Worth Texas

Whither Goest Thou Coronado- Rediscovery of the Coronado Expedition in Texas April 13 1996 Paper presentation at Session Historical Aspects of the American West 92nd Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers Charlotte North Carolina

C NONmiddotREFEREED PRESENTATIONS

The Romance of Tom Green County April 142012 Texas Philatelic Association Convention invited digital media presentation for the Texas Postal History Society San Antonio Texas

Home Home on the Llano August 12 2011 Invited digital media presentation for the 1 OOth Anniversary or Centennial Meeting of the Pathfinders Club Burton Memorial Library Clarendon Texas (Donley County)

The First Hundred Years The Lost Photographers of Austin and Central Texas April 1 0 2011 Invited digital media presentation Austin History Association Austin History Center Austin Texas

Silver Falls and Blanco Canyon June 22 2004 Invited public presentation to dedicate the Silver Falls Rest Area a $27 million public improvement project in Blanco Canyon by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) Crosby County Texas

Old Margaret and the Texas Rangers The Miller Diaries of Company B Invited regional symposium May 3-4 2002 Quanah Parker Days Celebration Crowell Texas Foard County

The Real Texas Rangers Invited seminar presentation January 14 2002 Through Their Eyes Student Seminar Education Service Center Region XV San Angelo Texas (Fellow authors were noted writer Elmer Kelton and Dr Andres Tijerina)

Ten Reconceptions of the Famed Texas Rangers June 17 2000 Invited presentation for Lone Stars 177 Years of Ranger History Mike Cox moderator Western Writers ofAmerica Convention YO Ranch Hotel and Resort Kerrville Texas

Russian Cities and Social Change Morning session held June 16 1999 Invited three-hour graduate seminar and training workshop for Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) Summer Institute in Russian Studies for K-12 Teachers

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Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

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The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

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B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

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Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

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Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

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B EDUCATIONAL EMPLOYMENT 1 Professor (Tenured) Fall 2010 - to date University of Texas at San Antonio Appointment as full professor in Department of Political Science and Geography College of Liberal and Fine Arts 11 Associate Professor (Tenured) Fall 1999-Spring 2010 University of Texas at San Antonio Appointment in Department of Political Science and Geography College of Liberal and Fine Arts Position included teaching of large undergraduate class sections and upper-division courses in Geography of Europe Cultural Geography and Weather and Climate 12 Associate Professor (Visiting) Fall Semester 2004 University of Texas at Austin Appointment in Community and Regional Planning Program Graduate School of Architecture College of Architecture Taught CRP 980-X Planning Theory and Practices to graduate students introduction of urban planning theories and methodologies for first-year graduate students 13 Associate Professor (May 1999-May 2002) and Assistant Professor (tenure-track January 1994-May 1999) University of Texas at San Antonio Joint Appointment in both the Geography Program Division of Social and Policy Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program DISCI College of Education

2 Member of the Faculty University of Texas at Austin (Fall 1996-Spring 2001) Lecturer in the Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies

3 Assistant Professor (ViSiting) 31 Pacific Lutheran University Summer 1999 Visiting Assistant Professor Created and taught uppershydivision HIS 385 Twentieth Century Russian History during summer residency at PLU Department of History Tacoma Washington 32 University of Texas at San Antonio Spring 1992-FaIl1993 Visiting Assistant Professor AppOintments in a) Geography Program Division of Social amp Policy Sciences and b) Interdisciplinary Studies Degree Program Division of Education Created IDS and GRG curricula and taught five different undergraduate courses 33 Auburn University Auburn Alabama Fall 1990 Visiting Assistant Professor AppOintment in Department of Geography College of Social Sciences Dr Tom Martinson Chairman Classes in World Geography and Human Geography

4 UT -System Lecturer 41 University of Texas at Austin Spring 1993 AppOintment in Department of Geography Dr William Doolittle Chairman Invited replacement for Professor Paul Ward English in teaching twelve sections of GRG 305 introductory World Regional Geography Supervised four Teaching Assistants and lectured to 312 students 42 University of Texas at Austin Spring 1993 Appointment in Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies Dr Michael Katz Director Taught GRG 327 Geography of the Former Soviet Union Funded by US Department of Education (National Resource Centers and Fellowships) this course focused on contemporary issues in Russian history demography agriculture resource use environment nationalism and economic geography 43 University of Texas at San Antonio Fall 1991 AppOintment in Geography Program Division of SOCial and Policy SCiences Dr Richard Jones Discipline Coordinator Classes in World Regional Geography and Cultural Geography

5 Teaching Assistant II 51 University of Texas at Austin 1987-1989 Appointment in Department of Geography Dr Paul English Chairman Eight semesters classroom experience with large undergraduate classes lectured to many hundreds of students enrolled in lab discussion sections for Dr Robin Doughtys This Human World

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52 University of Texas at Austin Spring 1984-Spring 1985 Appointment in Department of Petroleum Engineering Developed the technical writing component for PEN 379 taught technical writing to three semesters of senior petroleum engineering students

6 Research Employment Research Assistant II UT-Austin American Studies Deparrtment (1991) -- assisted Dr W H

Goetzmann in studies of historical cartography and 19th century exploration of Texas Alaska and Canadian North

Research Assistant II UT -Austin Hogg Foundation (1986) -- assisted a team of architects and academics in a study of classic American suburban developments

Research Assistant II UT-Austin Community and Regional Planning (1985) Urban development studies Research Assistant I UT-Austin Slavic Department (1976) Literary research Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms Texas State Senate (1975) appointed by State Senator Max Sherman

legislative procedures and practices

C AWARDS AND HONORS

1 Book Awards

Winner 2008 Robert A Calvert Book Prize Best Book Manuscript on History of American South West or Southwest

Winner 1999 Rupert N Richardson Award - West Texas History Association Winner 1998 San Antonio Conservation Society Citation -- Outstanding Contribution book award Winner 1998 Spur Award for EI Llano Estacado Best Western Nonfiction-Historical Western Writers

of America Winner 1998 Presidio La Bahia Award Sons of the Republic of Texas Winner 1997 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research Texas State Historical Association Winner 1997 T R Fehrenbach Award Texas Historical Commission Winner 1997 Friends of the Dallas Public Ubrary Award for Book making most significant contribution to knowledge Texas Institute of Letters

2 Scholastic Honors

Piper Professor Award (2012) Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation San Antonio statewide college teaching award ($5000)

Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars charter member University of Texas at San Antonio Regents Outstanding Teaching Award (2010) college teaching award ($30000) University of Texas

System Deans Outstanding Teaching Award (1996-97) Undergraduate Level College of Social and Behavioral

Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio Associate Member Southwestern Center for Educational Renewal (1996-1997) Faculty Research Award University of Texas at San Antonio (1994) Hogg Foundation Research Assistantship (1987) University Fellowship University of Texas at Austin Graduate School (1975-77) Summa cum laude BA Degree University of Texas at Austin (1974) Special Honors in Plan II Program University of Texas at Austin Phi Beta Kappa University of Texas at Austin Alpha Chapter (May 1974) Phi Kappa Phi University of Texas at Austin Honors Society (December 1973) Outstanding Humanities Scholar University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts (1972)

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II RESEARCH amp SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

A PUBLICATIONS 1 BOOKS 11 Authorship Published Books

John Miller Morris Taming the Land The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains (College Station Texas Texas AampM University Press 2009 Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series) Book-length study of the agrarian settlement of the Panhandle through the lenses of 1900-1920s regional photography Numerous illustrations 220 pages index Presentation of over a score of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research biographical profiles and historical research Volume One in the six-volume Plains of Ught series on regional photography Winner of the 2008 Calvert Prize for Best Book Manuscript on History of American South West or Southwest Texas AampM University Press

John Miller Morris A Private in the Texas Rangers A T Miller of Company B Frontier Battalion (College Station Texas AampM University Press 2001 Number Three Canseco-Keck History Series) First edition of 5000 copies 384 pp 25 illustrations 4 maps index Social and historical geography of the Texas Rangers of Company B Frontier Battalion Based on the diaries of A T Miller with additional interviews field research and archival research Interdisciplinary study of frontier settlement and cultural geography western lawmen and criminal justice against backdrop of the Rolling Plains Old Greer County and the Texas Panhandle

John Miller Morris EI Uano Estacado Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico 1536-1860 (Austin Texas State Historical Association October 1997) First and second editions in hardback third edition in paperback 414 pp 25 illustrations 4 maps index 25 chapters Texas Historical Geography Western History Environmental History Interdisciplinary study of Spanish and Anglo environmental perception of the Southern High Plains (Llano) bioregion from 1536-1860 Revisionist study of the Coronado Expedition in Texas Spanish exploration and semiotics of the Llano bioregion Anglo literary discovery of the Llano Estacado and official US-Texas exploration impulse from 1820-1860 With seven book awards EI Uano Estacado is the most award-winning publication in the publishing history of the Texas State Historical Association founded in 1897 and the oldest scholarly press in the state Named one of the fifty best modern books of Texas History

John Miller Morris From Coronado to Escalante the Explorers of the Spanish Southwest (New York Chelsea House Publishers 1992) [ISBN 0-7910-1300-6 cloth 0-7910-1523-8 paper $1295 111 pp illustrations Index] Traces early history and personalities of Spanish exploration in the American Southwest and Mexico Focuses on the Coronado Expedition of 1540-1542 Popular title in the World Explorers series Six editions by 2001

12 Authorship Edited Book

John Miller Morris editor Narrative of the Coronado Expedition Relacion de la Jornada de Clbola (Chicago R R Donnelley amp Sons 2002) English-Spanish bilingual edition of the classic 1560s narrative by Pedro de Castaneda of the travels of the Coronado Expedition of 1540-42 Special100th anniversary edition in the Lakeside Classics series (published as annual volume from 1902-date) Researched and prepared hundreds of modern annotations for bilingual text wrote major new historical introduction advised and consulted on translations illustrations new cartography and index

13 Authorship Current Book(s)-in-Development

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John Miller Morris The Sweet Long-Ago The Lost Photographers of the South Plains (Volume Two in Plains ofUght series) Fall 2013 submission to TAMU Press Cultural geography work on the turn-of-theshycentury outdoor photographers of the South Plains region Pioneer photographers of Lubbock Midland Big Spring Tahoka Plainview etc Visual documentation of settlement ranching agriculture and environmental transformation Presentation of almost a score of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research biographical profiles and historical research

John Miller Morris The Old Home Place The Lost Photographers of the Rolling Plains (Volume Three in Plains of Ught series) Summer 2012 submission to TAMU Press Photo-historical book on the 1900shy1920s outdoor photographers of the Rolling Plains region of Texas encompassing 26 counties with cities such as Abilene Wichita Falls Post Snyder Sweetwater Electra Burkburnett etc Pioneer photographers and their visual documentation of main streets oil booms ranching agriculture technology and environmental transformation Presentation of almost forty of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research

14 Authorship Book Chapters

Chapter One John Miller Morris First Contact Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of Texas and Mexico in Ty Cashion and Frank de la Teja editors The Human Tradition in Texas (New York Scholarly Resources 2001) Hardback and paperback editions

Chapter Thirteen John Miller Morris First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of the Llano Estacado in Richard and Shirley Flint editors The Coronado Expedition from the Distance of460 Years (Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press Spring 2003) Hardback

Chapter Two John Miller Morris When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacado The Glorious Past and Uncertain Future of the High Plains Family Farm in Sherry L Smith editor The Future of the Southern High Plains (Norman University of Oklahoma Press 2003) Hardback and paperback editions

15 Authorship Book Introductions

Lt James William Abert New Introduction by John Miller MorriS Expedition to the Southwest An 1845 Reconnaissance of Colorado New Mexico Texas and Oklahoma (Lincoln Neb University of Nebraska Press Bison Books 1999 [ISBN 0-8032-5935-2]) 121 pp Provided New Introduction for university press reprinting of Lt James W Aberts 1846 official government report on his exploration of the Southwest United States

W John L Sullivan New Introduction by John Miller MorriS Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers (Lincoln Neb University of Nebraska Press Bison Books 2001 [ISBN 0-8032-9287-2) American West series) 316 pp Initiated reprint request researched and wrote New Introduction for Sgt John Sullivans rare 1909 memoir of life in the Texas Rangers

16 Book EssaylResearch Contribution

Essay John Miller Morris The Search for Cona An Inquiry into Historical Geography (Essay 41) for Marian L Martinello Gillian E Cook and Linda Woodson Modes of Inquiry Voices of Scholars Across the Fields of Study (Carrollton Texas Alliance Press 1998) pp107-12 Re-edited and new edition in 2005

Research Contribution William H Goetzmann and Glyndwr Williams The Atlas of North American Exploration From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole (New York Prentice Hall General Reference 1992 [ISBN 0-13-297128-3) 224 pps Contributor of research articles map research and

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proof supervision for a) To Santa Fe from the East the Explorations of Pierre and Paul Mallet 1739-40 b) The Scouts of New Spain Spanish Trailblazers in the Old Southwest 1786-1808 c) Russia Meets America The Russians in Alaska 1790-1863 and d) Sewards Icebox U S Alaska and the Yukon Gold Rush 1866-98 Co-authorship of articles and maps for a) The Bleak Canadian North Searches for the Northwest Passage 1818-45 and b) Cold and Tragic Shores Searches for Franklin and the Northwest Passage 1846-1905

2 Published Articles

The (Illustrated) Pecos River in Frontier History in Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin eds Southwestern American Literature Volume 33 No2 (Spring 2008) pages 23-38

Exploration in Ron Tyler Douglas E Barnett and Roy Barkley editors The New Handbook of Texas Volume Two (Austin Texas State Historical AssOCiation 1996) pages 917-928 Encyclopedic article on the history of exploration in Texas

Central Texas Street Photography Snapshots on the Cultural Landscape of Public Ufe in Donald Lyons and Paul Hudak eds Geographic Perspectives on the Texas Region (Denton UniverSity of North Texas 1998) 71-80 (ASSOCiation of American Geographers 93rd Conference)

3 Book Reviews

Suzanne Starling Land is the Cry Warren Angus Ferris Pioneer Texas Surveyor and Founder of Dallas County (Austin Texas State Historical Association 1998) Published as the lead book review in Southwestern Historical Quarterly VoICII No4 (April 1999) 525-26

Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nuevea The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest (Niwot Col University Press of Colorado 1997) Published in PanhandleshyPlains Historical Review VolLXXII (1999)

B MAJOR PERFORMANCE I EXHIBIT I MEDIA

1 TelevisionNideo

liThe Texas Rangers -- History Channel (Cable-TV Channel 28) North Hollywood CA one-hour program in The Enforcers series Featured speaker on national television show about the history of the Texas Rangers Worked with Bo Koster Associate Producer of Greystone Communications on this episode in the History Channel series The Enforcers Personal interviews filmed at my home loaned historic photos and did consulting from August-December 2000 Advised on draft scripts and draft video version during production Provided research checked facts and accuracy (VHS and DVD available)

Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective -- PBS-KACV Amarillo Texas one-hour program Worked with Ellen Robertson Neal Director of Public Relations for PBS affiliate in Amarillo on 1999 television show about the explorers of the Texas Panhandle Filmed interviews at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and KACV-TV studios Loaned producers rare photographs and prints for this PBS special The broadcast program and videotape Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective (March 1999) has been used as a promotional incentive during membership drives (Videotape available)

2 Traveling Museum Exhibit

Plains of Light Fields of Vision Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains 1905-1915

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(Seven large exhibit panels and heavy packing case) Traveling photo-historical exhibit on the unsung regional photographers of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains after the turn of the century Identified researched designed and produced this Southwest exhibit on frontier photographers Assembled by the Institute for Texas Cultures in San Antonio this exhibit featured rare and enlarged period photographs silk-screened text and captions a color lithograph map and Texas Quilt background accent designs From 1996 through 1998 the Plains of Light Fields of Vision exhibit toured the museums and public libraries within a fifty county area of Texas Thousands of Northwest Texas residents enjoyed this traveling exhibit

3 Radio and Television

The Future of the Southern Plains 30-minute book interview Glenn Mitchell Show National Public Radio-Dallas KERA (Channel 13) November 2004

Book Interview A Private in the Texas Rangers 30-minute TV show produced by Polly Price for Time Warner-Channel 19 San Antonio August 2001 multiple airings

Texas Place Names 30 minute guest interview for San Antonio public TV show Ordinary People (Paragon Cable TV 20) March 1997 (Videotape available)

In Search of Cona THN Network TV satellite broadcast for Judy Weills Spanish OneEspanol Uno distance learning course October 11 1996 San Antonio Texas

The Meaning of Texas radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV August 191996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

The Coronado Expedition radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV April 1996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

C RESEARCH MATERIALS

BOOK Assembled 4000+ volume research library with specialization in Southwestern historical geography There are many rare items maps publications documents diaries and manuscripts in the collection Acquainted with leading book and map dealers skills in historic document evaluation

PHOTOGRAPHY Assembled 10000+ historic photographs and real photo postcards of Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma The Morris Real Photo Colection of Texas (1900-1930) is the finest period real photo collection for the state Loans andor permissions of visual materials to county museums heritage associations colleagues and media

III SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

TitleDescription DateSponsorPlace

A INVITED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

From the Gulf to the Rockies Cartography of the Fort Worth amp Denver Railroad July 272012 Joint Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society and the Texas Map Society invited one-hour digital media presentation University of Denver College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Denver Colorado

Then and Now Photography of the North Texas Prairies and Plains October 222010 Invited 15 hour digital media presentation and speech Friday evening for the Friends of the UT-Arlington Library Dr Gerald Saxon program chair

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Home Home on the Llano February 262010 Invited conference keynote address and related media presentation for 150th Annual Meeting of the Historical Society ofNew Mexico Western Heritage Museum Theater Hobbs New Mexico

Central Texas Archaeology From Bone amp Stone to Flora amp Fauna February 19 2010 Invited one-hour digital media presentation Capital Area Master Naturalist Program Westcave Nature Preserve Travis County Texas

Colonial Cartography on the Far Frontier April 5 2009 Texas Map Society Spring 2009 Meeting Conference Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers Co-sponsored by the Political Science amp Geography Department University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus San Antonio Texas

The Pecos River in Frontier History March 9 2007 Invited paper and CD-ROM digital presentation for statewide conference The Pecos River Past Present Future Texas River Center Texas State University San Marcos Texas

Small Worlds of the Southern Great Plains February 252005 Wildlife Society Texas Chapter Invited plenary presentation from 8AM-10AM Amarillo Convention Center Amarillo Texas CD-ROM presentation and written speech

Gone to Texas Case Studies in Cultural Geography March 5 2004 Texas State Historical Association 108th Annual Meeting Session 23 Dr Jerry Thompson Chair Austin Texas CD-ROM presentation and written paper

Changing Places Photography Symposium October 20 2001 Invited presentation for the Shifting Landscapes Conference (October 18-20 2001) Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas Co-organized this symposium with the noted professional photographers Rob Amberg and Wayne Lambert

Spanish Cartography of the High Plains April 27 2001 Invited presentation Museum Interpretation of the Spanish Conquest and Colonial PeriodS 1492-1820 Symposium Baylor University and StreckershyMayborn Museum Complex Waco Convention Center (April 7-28 2001) Waco Texas

When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacada April 10 2001 Invited presentation The Future ofthe Southern High Plains Symposium Dr Sherry Smith presiding Southern Methodist University Clements Center Dallas Texas

Commencing a New Century History Technology and Visual Culture in the Texas Panhandle April 27 2000 Invited illustrated presentation Friends of the Cornette Library 25th Annual Dinner Meeting at West Texas AampM University Canyon Texas

First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of Blanco Canyon Keynote address on April 17 2000 7-9PM Invited illustrated presentation for the Contemporary Vantage on the Coronado Expedition April 14-18 2002 Conference sponsored by New Mexico Highlands University and the Floyd County Historical Museum Plains Baptist Assembly Hall in Blanco Canyon [Floyd County] Texas

The Search for Cona Finding a Literary Sense of Place for the Coronado Expedition in Texas September 23 1999 Invited presentation for Our Hidden Hispanic Heritage Second Annual Legends of the Southwest Symposium in Formby Room Southwest Collection Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas

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Lo Llano Europeans on the High Plains of 1541 March 1 1998 Invited presentation for The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest Mogollon Conference (February 28-March1 1998) Albuquerque New Mexico

Springlands and Settlements Mexicos Ojos de Aguas April 15 1989 Invited paper delivered at University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies First Annual Symposium Cultural Adaptation at the Edge of the Spanish Empire A Northern View Sid Richardson Hall Austin Texas

The Coronado Expedition in Texas It November 24 1993 Invited presentation Division of Education and Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San AntoniO San Antonio Texas

Navajo Agriculture and the Dinetah Frontier April 20 1992 Invited presentation Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio Texas

Mysteries of the Llano Estacado December 13 1988 Invited presentation Department of Geography University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Series Austin Texas

The Iron Horse on the High Plains Guidebooks and Environmental Imagery 1872-1892 May 1 1990 Paper and invited presentation delivered at New Mexico State University Department of Earth Sciences Las Cruces New Mexico

B REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

Commentary - Postcards as Documentary Evidence on the Texas Past (Session 5) March 1 2012 Texas State Historical ASSOCiation 116111 Annual Meeting Houston Texas

Homesteading the Western Llano Estacado April 1 2011 digital media presentation for Farming and Ranching on the Last Frontier Session West Texas Historical Association 8lfh Annual Meeting Lubbock Texas

Ethnic Photography and the Cultural Geography of African-Americans in Texas April 16 2010 digital media presentation Panel One for Third Annual African American Studies SympOsium Denman Room University Center UT-San Antonio

A Field Guide to West Texas Postal History 1850s-1890s March 31 2007 Session paper and CDshyROM illustrated presentation delivered to West Texas History AssOCiation 84th Annual Meeting Abilene Texas

Commentary - Business in the Borderlands (Session 48) March 10 2007 Texas State Historical Association 111 th Annual Meeting San AntoniO Texas

E-History or Googling West Texas A Visual Case Study in Web-based Research April 3 2004 West Texas Historical Association Session Six Abilene Texas (CD-ROM presentation and written remarks)

First Arrivals The Caprock Springs of the Eastern Llano Estacado March 18 2004 Association of American Geographers -1OOth Annual Meeting Session 5450 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The Real Photo Artists of West Texas 1907-1920 April 11 2003 West Texas Historical Association 80th Annual Meeting Session Four Lubbock Texas

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Texas Visual Historiography The Regional Real Photo Artists 1906-1919 October 10 2000 Coshyorganized session with Dr Ty Cashion of The Visual Texas Western History Association 40th Annual Conference San Antonio Texas

Shadow Catchers of the Texas Panhandle March 6 1998 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting Austin Texas Organized Session 21 Studies in Texas Photo-history

Landscape Artists of the Southern High Plains Romance to Realism March 28 1998 Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting Boston Massachusetts

Plains of Light Landscape Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains April 4 1997 Session chair and presentation for Historical Geography -- Frontiers Boundary Disputes and Visualization Association of American Geographers 93rd Annual Meeting Fort Worth Texas

Whither Goest Thou Coronado- Rediscovery of the Coronado Expedition in Texas April 13 1996 Paper presentation at Session Historical Aspects of the American West 92nd Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers Charlotte North Carolina

C NONmiddotREFEREED PRESENTATIONS

The Romance of Tom Green County April 142012 Texas Philatelic Association Convention invited digital media presentation for the Texas Postal History Society San Antonio Texas

Home Home on the Llano August 12 2011 Invited digital media presentation for the 1 OOth Anniversary or Centennial Meeting of the Pathfinders Club Burton Memorial Library Clarendon Texas (Donley County)

The First Hundred Years The Lost Photographers of Austin and Central Texas April 1 0 2011 Invited digital media presentation Austin History Association Austin History Center Austin Texas

Silver Falls and Blanco Canyon June 22 2004 Invited public presentation to dedicate the Silver Falls Rest Area a $27 million public improvement project in Blanco Canyon by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) Crosby County Texas

Old Margaret and the Texas Rangers The Miller Diaries of Company B Invited regional symposium May 3-4 2002 Quanah Parker Days Celebration Crowell Texas Foard County

The Real Texas Rangers Invited seminar presentation January 14 2002 Through Their Eyes Student Seminar Education Service Center Region XV San Angelo Texas (Fellow authors were noted writer Elmer Kelton and Dr Andres Tijerina)

Ten Reconceptions of the Famed Texas Rangers June 17 2000 Invited presentation for Lone Stars 177 Years of Ranger History Mike Cox moderator Western Writers ofAmerica Convention YO Ranch Hotel and Resort Kerrville Texas

Russian Cities and Social Change Morning session held June 16 1999 Invited three-hour graduate seminar and training workshop for Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) Summer Institute in Russian Studies for K-12 Teachers

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Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

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The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

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B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

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Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

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Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

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52 University of Texas at Austin Spring 1984-Spring 1985 Appointment in Department of Petroleum Engineering Developed the technical writing component for PEN 379 taught technical writing to three semesters of senior petroleum engineering students

6 Research Employment Research Assistant II UT-Austin American Studies Deparrtment (1991) -- assisted Dr W H

Goetzmann in studies of historical cartography and 19th century exploration of Texas Alaska and Canadian North

Research Assistant II UT -Austin Hogg Foundation (1986) -- assisted a team of architects and academics in a study of classic American suburban developments

Research Assistant II UT-Austin Community and Regional Planning (1985) Urban development studies Research Assistant I UT-Austin Slavic Department (1976) Literary research Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms Texas State Senate (1975) appointed by State Senator Max Sherman

legislative procedures and practices

C AWARDS AND HONORS

1 Book Awards

Winner 2008 Robert A Calvert Book Prize Best Book Manuscript on History of American South West or Southwest

Winner 1999 Rupert N Richardson Award - West Texas History Association Winner 1998 San Antonio Conservation Society Citation -- Outstanding Contribution book award Winner 1998 Spur Award for EI Llano Estacado Best Western Nonfiction-Historical Western Writers

of America Winner 1998 Presidio La Bahia Award Sons of the Republic of Texas Winner 1997 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research Texas State Historical Association Winner 1997 T R Fehrenbach Award Texas Historical Commission Winner 1997 Friends of the Dallas Public Ubrary Award for Book making most significant contribution to knowledge Texas Institute of Letters

2 Scholastic Honors

Piper Professor Award (2012) Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation San Antonio statewide college teaching award ($5000)

Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars charter member University of Texas at San Antonio Regents Outstanding Teaching Award (2010) college teaching award ($30000) University of Texas

System Deans Outstanding Teaching Award (1996-97) Undergraduate Level College of Social and Behavioral

Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio Associate Member Southwestern Center for Educational Renewal (1996-1997) Faculty Research Award University of Texas at San Antonio (1994) Hogg Foundation Research Assistantship (1987) University Fellowship University of Texas at Austin Graduate School (1975-77) Summa cum laude BA Degree University of Texas at Austin (1974) Special Honors in Plan II Program University of Texas at Austin Phi Beta Kappa University of Texas at Austin Alpha Chapter (May 1974) Phi Kappa Phi University of Texas at Austin Honors Society (December 1973) Outstanding Humanities Scholar University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts (1972)

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II RESEARCH amp SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

A PUBLICATIONS 1 BOOKS 11 Authorship Published Books

John Miller Morris Taming the Land The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains (College Station Texas Texas AampM University Press 2009 Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series) Book-length study of the agrarian settlement of the Panhandle through the lenses of 1900-1920s regional photography Numerous illustrations 220 pages index Presentation of over a score of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research biographical profiles and historical research Volume One in the six-volume Plains of Ught series on regional photography Winner of the 2008 Calvert Prize for Best Book Manuscript on History of American South West or Southwest Texas AampM University Press

John Miller Morris A Private in the Texas Rangers A T Miller of Company B Frontier Battalion (College Station Texas AampM University Press 2001 Number Three Canseco-Keck History Series) First edition of 5000 copies 384 pp 25 illustrations 4 maps index Social and historical geography of the Texas Rangers of Company B Frontier Battalion Based on the diaries of A T Miller with additional interviews field research and archival research Interdisciplinary study of frontier settlement and cultural geography western lawmen and criminal justice against backdrop of the Rolling Plains Old Greer County and the Texas Panhandle

John Miller Morris EI Uano Estacado Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico 1536-1860 (Austin Texas State Historical Association October 1997) First and second editions in hardback third edition in paperback 414 pp 25 illustrations 4 maps index 25 chapters Texas Historical Geography Western History Environmental History Interdisciplinary study of Spanish and Anglo environmental perception of the Southern High Plains (Llano) bioregion from 1536-1860 Revisionist study of the Coronado Expedition in Texas Spanish exploration and semiotics of the Llano bioregion Anglo literary discovery of the Llano Estacado and official US-Texas exploration impulse from 1820-1860 With seven book awards EI Uano Estacado is the most award-winning publication in the publishing history of the Texas State Historical Association founded in 1897 and the oldest scholarly press in the state Named one of the fifty best modern books of Texas History

John Miller Morris From Coronado to Escalante the Explorers of the Spanish Southwest (New York Chelsea House Publishers 1992) [ISBN 0-7910-1300-6 cloth 0-7910-1523-8 paper $1295 111 pp illustrations Index] Traces early history and personalities of Spanish exploration in the American Southwest and Mexico Focuses on the Coronado Expedition of 1540-1542 Popular title in the World Explorers series Six editions by 2001

12 Authorship Edited Book

John Miller Morris editor Narrative of the Coronado Expedition Relacion de la Jornada de Clbola (Chicago R R Donnelley amp Sons 2002) English-Spanish bilingual edition of the classic 1560s narrative by Pedro de Castaneda of the travels of the Coronado Expedition of 1540-42 Special100th anniversary edition in the Lakeside Classics series (published as annual volume from 1902-date) Researched and prepared hundreds of modern annotations for bilingual text wrote major new historical introduction advised and consulted on translations illustrations new cartography and index

13 Authorship Current Book(s)-in-Development

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John Miller Morris The Sweet Long-Ago The Lost Photographers of the South Plains (Volume Two in Plains ofUght series) Fall 2013 submission to TAMU Press Cultural geography work on the turn-of-theshycentury outdoor photographers of the South Plains region Pioneer photographers of Lubbock Midland Big Spring Tahoka Plainview etc Visual documentation of settlement ranching agriculture and environmental transformation Presentation of almost a score of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research biographical profiles and historical research

John Miller Morris The Old Home Place The Lost Photographers of the Rolling Plains (Volume Three in Plains of Ught series) Summer 2012 submission to TAMU Press Photo-historical book on the 1900shy1920s outdoor photographers of the Rolling Plains region of Texas encompassing 26 counties with cities such as Abilene Wichita Falls Post Snyder Sweetwater Electra Burkburnett etc Pioneer photographers and their visual documentation of main streets oil booms ranching agriculture technology and environmental transformation Presentation of almost forty of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research

14 Authorship Book Chapters

Chapter One John Miller Morris First Contact Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of Texas and Mexico in Ty Cashion and Frank de la Teja editors The Human Tradition in Texas (New York Scholarly Resources 2001) Hardback and paperback editions

Chapter Thirteen John Miller Morris First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of the Llano Estacado in Richard and Shirley Flint editors The Coronado Expedition from the Distance of460 Years (Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press Spring 2003) Hardback

Chapter Two John Miller Morris When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacado The Glorious Past and Uncertain Future of the High Plains Family Farm in Sherry L Smith editor The Future of the Southern High Plains (Norman University of Oklahoma Press 2003) Hardback and paperback editions

15 Authorship Book Introductions

Lt James William Abert New Introduction by John Miller MorriS Expedition to the Southwest An 1845 Reconnaissance of Colorado New Mexico Texas and Oklahoma (Lincoln Neb University of Nebraska Press Bison Books 1999 [ISBN 0-8032-5935-2]) 121 pp Provided New Introduction for university press reprinting of Lt James W Aberts 1846 official government report on his exploration of the Southwest United States

W John L Sullivan New Introduction by John Miller MorriS Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers (Lincoln Neb University of Nebraska Press Bison Books 2001 [ISBN 0-8032-9287-2) American West series) 316 pp Initiated reprint request researched and wrote New Introduction for Sgt John Sullivans rare 1909 memoir of life in the Texas Rangers

16 Book EssaylResearch Contribution

Essay John Miller Morris The Search for Cona An Inquiry into Historical Geography (Essay 41) for Marian L Martinello Gillian E Cook and Linda Woodson Modes of Inquiry Voices of Scholars Across the Fields of Study (Carrollton Texas Alliance Press 1998) pp107-12 Re-edited and new edition in 2005

Research Contribution William H Goetzmann and Glyndwr Williams The Atlas of North American Exploration From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole (New York Prentice Hall General Reference 1992 [ISBN 0-13-297128-3) 224 pps Contributor of research articles map research and

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proof supervision for a) To Santa Fe from the East the Explorations of Pierre and Paul Mallet 1739-40 b) The Scouts of New Spain Spanish Trailblazers in the Old Southwest 1786-1808 c) Russia Meets America The Russians in Alaska 1790-1863 and d) Sewards Icebox U S Alaska and the Yukon Gold Rush 1866-98 Co-authorship of articles and maps for a) The Bleak Canadian North Searches for the Northwest Passage 1818-45 and b) Cold and Tragic Shores Searches for Franklin and the Northwest Passage 1846-1905

2 Published Articles

The (Illustrated) Pecos River in Frontier History in Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin eds Southwestern American Literature Volume 33 No2 (Spring 2008) pages 23-38

Exploration in Ron Tyler Douglas E Barnett and Roy Barkley editors The New Handbook of Texas Volume Two (Austin Texas State Historical AssOCiation 1996) pages 917-928 Encyclopedic article on the history of exploration in Texas

Central Texas Street Photography Snapshots on the Cultural Landscape of Public Ufe in Donald Lyons and Paul Hudak eds Geographic Perspectives on the Texas Region (Denton UniverSity of North Texas 1998) 71-80 (ASSOCiation of American Geographers 93rd Conference)

3 Book Reviews

Suzanne Starling Land is the Cry Warren Angus Ferris Pioneer Texas Surveyor and Founder of Dallas County (Austin Texas State Historical Association 1998) Published as the lead book review in Southwestern Historical Quarterly VoICII No4 (April 1999) 525-26

Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nuevea The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest (Niwot Col University Press of Colorado 1997) Published in PanhandleshyPlains Historical Review VolLXXII (1999)

B MAJOR PERFORMANCE I EXHIBIT I MEDIA

1 TelevisionNideo

liThe Texas Rangers -- History Channel (Cable-TV Channel 28) North Hollywood CA one-hour program in The Enforcers series Featured speaker on national television show about the history of the Texas Rangers Worked with Bo Koster Associate Producer of Greystone Communications on this episode in the History Channel series The Enforcers Personal interviews filmed at my home loaned historic photos and did consulting from August-December 2000 Advised on draft scripts and draft video version during production Provided research checked facts and accuracy (VHS and DVD available)

Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective -- PBS-KACV Amarillo Texas one-hour program Worked with Ellen Robertson Neal Director of Public Relations for PBS affiliate in Amarillo on 1999 television show about the explorers of the Texas Panhandle Filmed interviews at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and KACV-TV studios Loaned producers rare photographs and prints for this PBS special The broadcast program and videotape Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective (March 1999) has been used as a promotional incentive during membership drives (Videotape available)

2 Traveling Museum Exhibit

Plains of Light Fields of Vision Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains 1905-1915

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(Seven large exhibit panels and heavy packing case) Traveling photo-historical exhibit on the unsung regional photographers of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains after the turn of the century Identified researched designed and produced this Southwest exhibit on frontier photographers Assembled by the Institute for Texas Cultures in San Antonio this exhibit featured rare and enlarged period photographs silk-screened text and captions a color lithograph map and Texas Quilt background accent designs From 1996 through 1998 the Plains of Light Fields of Vision exhibit toured the museums and public libraries within a fifty county area of Texas Thousands of Northwest Texas residents enjoyed this traveling exhibit

3 Radio and Television

The Future of the Southern Plains 30-minute book interview Glenn Mitchell Show National Public Radio-Dallas KERA (Channel 13) November 2004

Book Interview A Private in the Texas Rangers 30-minute TV show produced by Polly Price for Time Warner-Channel 19 San Antonio August 2001 multiple airings

Texas Place Names 30 minute guest interview for San Antonio public TV show Ordinary People (Paragon Cable TV 20) March 1997 (Videotape available)

In Search of Cona THN Network TV satellite broadcast for Judy Weills Spanish OneEspanol Uno distance learning course October 11 1996 San Antonio Texas

The Meaning of Texas radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV August 191996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

The Coronado Expedition radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV April 1996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

C RESEARCH MATERIALS

BOOK Assembled 4000+ volume research library with specialization in Southwestern historical geography There are many rare items maps publications documents diaries and manuscripts in the collection Acquainted with leading book and map dealers skills in historic document evaluation

PHOTOGRAPHY Assembled 10000+ historic photographs and real photo postcards of Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma The Morris Real Photo Colection of Texas (1900-1930) is the finest period real photo collection for the state Loans andor permissions of visual materials to county museums heritage associations colleagues and media

III SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

TitleDescription DateSponsorPlace

A INVITED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

From the Gulf to the Rockies Cartography of the Fort Worth amp Denver Railroad July 272012 Joint Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society and the Texas Map Society invited one-hour digital media presentation University of Denver College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Denver Colorado

Then and Now Photography of the North Texas Prairies and Plains October 222010 Invited 15 hour digital media presentation and speech Friday evening for the Friends of the UT-Arlington Library Dr Gerald Saxon program chair

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Home Home on the Llano February 262010 Invited conference keynote address and related media presentation for 150th Annual Meeting of the Historical Society ofNew Mexico Western Heritage Museum Theater Hobbs New Mexico

Central Texas Archaeology From Bone amp Stone to Flora amp Fauna February 19 2010 Invited one-hour digital media presentation Capital Area Master Naturalist Program Westcave Nature Preserve Travis County Texas

Colonial Cartography on the Far Frontier April 5 2009 Texas Map Society Spring 2009 Meeting Conference Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers Co-sponsored by the Political Science amp Geography Department University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus San Antonio Texas

The Pecos River in Frontier History March 9 2007 Invited paper and CD-ROM digital presentation for statewide conference The Pecos River Past Present Future Texas River Center Texas State University San Marcos Texas

Small Worlds of the Southern Great Plains February 252005 Wildlife Society Texas Chapter Invited plenary presentation from 8AM-10AM Amarillo Convention Center Amarillo Texas CD-ROM presentation and written speech

Gone to Texas Case Studies in Cultural Geography March 5 2004 Texas State Historical Association 108th Annual Meeting Session 23 Dr Jerry Thompson Chair Austin Texas CD-ROM presentation and written paper

Changing Places Photography Symposium October 20 2001 Invited presentation for the Shifting Landscapes Conference (October 18-20 2001) Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas Co-organized this symposium with the noted professional photographers Rob Amberg and Wayne Lambert

Spanish Cartography of the High Plains April 27 2001 Invited presentation Museum Interpretation of the Spanish Conquest and Colonial PeriodS 1492-1820 Symposium Baylor University and StreckershyMayborn Museum Complex Waco Convention Center (April 7-28 2001) Waco Texas

When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacada April 10 2001 Invited presentation The Future ofthe Southern High Plains Symposium Dr Sherry Smith presiding Southern Methodist University Clements Center Dallas Texas

Commencing a New Century History Technology and Visual Culture in the Texas Panhandle April 27 2000 Invited illustrated presentation Friends of the Cornette Library 25th Annual Dinner Meeting at West Texas AampM University Canyon Texas

First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of Blanco Canyon Keynote address on April 17 2000 7-9PM Invited illustrated presentation for the Contemporary Vantage on the Coronado Expedition April 14-18 2002 Conference sponsored by New Mexico Highlands University and the Floyd County Historical Museum Plains Baptist Assembly Hall in Blanco Canyon [Floyd County] Texas

The Search for Cona Finding a Literary Sense of Place for the Coronado Expedition in Texas September 23 1999 Invited presentation for Our Hidden Hispanic Heritage Second Annual Legends of the Southwest Symposium in Formby Room Southwest Collection Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas

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Lo Llano Europeans on the High Plains of 1541 March 1 1998 Invited presentation for The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest Mogollon Conference (February 28-March1 1998) Albuquerque New Mexico

Springlands and Settlements Mexicos Ojos de Aguas April 15 1989 Invited paper delivered at University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies First Annual Symposium Cultural Adaptation at the Edge of the Spanish Empire A Northern View Sid Richardson Hall Austin Texas

The Coronado Expedition in Texas It November 24 1993 Invited presentation Division of Education and Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San AntoniO San Antonio Texas

Navajo Agriculture and the Dinetah Frontier April 20 1992 Invited presentation Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio Texas

Mysteries of the Llano Estacado December 13 1988 Invited presentation Department of Geography University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Series Austin Texas

The Iron Horse on the High Plains Guidebooks and Environmental Imagery 1872-1892 May 1 1990 Paper and invited presentation delivered at New Mexico State University Department of Earth Sciences Las Cruces New Mexico

B REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

Commentary - Postcards as Documentary Evidence on the Texas Past (Session 5) March 1 2012 Texas State Historical ASSOCiation 116111 Annual Meeting Houston Texas

Homesteading the Western Llano Estacado April 1 2011 digital media presentation for Farming and Ranching on the Last Frontier Session West Texas Historical Association 8lfh Annual Meeting Lubbock Texas

Ethnic Photography and the Cultural Geography of African-Americans in Texas April 16 2010 digital media presentation Panel One for Third Annual African American Studies SympOsium Denman Room University Center UT-San Antonio

A Field Guide to West Texas Postal History 1850s-1890s March 31 2007 Session paper and CDshyROM illustrated presentation delivered to West Texas History AssOCiation 84th Annual Meeting Abilene Texas

Commentary - Business in the Borderlands (Session 48) March 10 2007 Texas State Historical Association 111 th Annual Meeting San AntoniO Texas

E-History or Googling West Texas A Visual Case Study in Web-based Research April 3 2004 West Texas Historical Association Session Six Abilene Texas (CD-ROM presentation and written remarks)

First Arrivals The Caprock Springs of the Eastern Llano Estacado March 18 2004 Association of American Geographers -1OOth Annual Meeting Session 5450 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The Real Photo Artists of West Texas 1907-1920 April 11 2003 West Texas Historical Association 80th Annual Meeting Session Four Lubbock Texas

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Texas Visual Historiography The Regional Real Photo Artists 1906-1919 October 10 2000 Coshyorganized session with Dr Ty Cashion of The Visual Texas Western History Association 40th Annual Conference San Antonio Texas

Shadow Catchers of the Texas Panhandle March 6 1998 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting Austin Texas Organized Session 21 Studies in Texas Photo-history

Landscape Artists of the Southern High Plains Romance to Realism March 28 1998 Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting Boston Massachusetts

Plains of Light Landscape Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains April 4 1997 Session chair and presentation for Historical Geography -- Frontiers Boundary Disputes and Visualization Association of American Geographers 93rd Annual Meeting Fort Worth Texas

Whither Goest Thou Coronado- Rediscovery of the Coronado Expedition in Texas April 13 1996 Paper presentation at Session Historical Aspects of the American West 92nd Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers Charlotte North Carolina

C NONmiddotREFEREED PRESENTATIONS

The Romance of Tom Green County April 142012 Texas Philatelic Association Convention invited digital media presentation for the Texas Postal History Society San Antonio Texas

Home Home on the Llano August 12 2011 Invited digital media presentation for the 1 OOth Anniversary or Centennial Meeting of the Pathfinders Club Burton Memorial Library Clarendon Texas (Donley County)

The First Hundred Years The Lost Photographers of Austin and Central Texas April 1 0 2011 Invited digital media presentation Austin History Association Austin History Center Austin Texas

Silver Falls and Blanco Canyon June 22 2004 Invited public presentation to dedicate the Silver Falls Rest Area a $27 million public improvement project in Blanco Canyon by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) Crosby County Texas

Old Margaret and the Texas Rangers The Miller Diaries of Company B Invited regional symposium May 3-4 2002 Quanah Parker Days Celebration Crowell Texas Foard County

The Real Texas Rangers Invited seminar presentation January 14 2002 Through Their Eyes Student Seminar Education Service Center Region XV San Angelo Texas (Fellow authors were noted writer Elmer Kelton and Dr Andres Tijerina)

Ten Reconceptions of the Famed Texas Rangers June 17 2000 Invited presentation for Lone Stars 177 Years of Ranger History Mike Cox moderator Western Writers ofAmerica Convention YO Ranch Hotel and Resort Kerrville Texas

Russian Cities and Social Change Morning session held June 16 1999 Invited three-hour graduate seminar and training workshop for Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) Summer Institute in Russian Studies for K-12 Teachers

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Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

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The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

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B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

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Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

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Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

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II RESEARCH amp SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY

A PUBLICATIONS 1 BOOKS 11 Authorship Published Books

John Miller Morris Taming the Land The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains (College Station Texas Texas AampM University Press 2009 Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series) Book-length study of the agrarian settlement of the Panhandle through the lenses of 1900-1920s regional photography Numerous illustrations 220 pages index Presentation of over a score of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research biographical profiles and historical research Volume One in the six-volume Plains of Ught series on regional photography Winner of the 2008 Calvert Prize for Best Book Manuscript on History of American South West or Southwest Texas AampM University Press

John Miller Morris A Private in the Texas Rangers A T Miller of Company B Frontier Battalion (College Station Texas AampM University Press 2001 Number Three Canseco-Keck History Series) First edition of 5000 copies 384 pp 25 illustrations 4 maps index Social and historical geography of the Texas Rangers of Company B Frontier Battalion Based on the diaries of A T Miller with additional interviews field research and archival research Interdisciplinary study of frontier settlement and cultural geography western lawmen and criminal justice against backdrop of the Rolling Plains Old Greer County and the Texas Panhandle

John Miller Morris EI Uano Estacado Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico 1536-1860 (Austin Texas State Historical Association October 1997) First and second editions in hardback third edition in paperback 414 pp 25 illustrations 4 maps index 25 chapters Texas Historical Geography Western History Environmental History Interdisciplinary study of Spanish and Anglo environmental perception of the Southern High Plains (Llano) bioregion from 1536-1860 Revisionist study of the Coronado Expedition in Texas Spanish exploration and semiotics of the Llano bioregion Anglo literary discovery of the Llano Estacado and official US-Texas exploration impulse from 1820-1860 With seven book awards EI Uano Estacado is the most award-winning publication in the publishing history of the Texas State Historical Association founded in 1897 and the oldest scholarly press in the state Named one of the fifty best modern books of Texas History

John Miller Morris From Coronado to Escalante the Explorers of the Spanish Southwest (New York Chelsea House Publishers 1992) [ISBN 0-7910-1300-6 cloth 0-7910-1523-8 paper $1295 111 pp illustrations Index] Traces early history and personalities of Spanish exploration in the American Southwest and Mexico Focuses on the Coronado Expedition of 1540-1542 Popular title in the World Explorers series Six editions by 2001

12 Authorship Edited Book

John Miller Morris editor Narrative of the Coronado Expedition Relacion de la Jornada de Clbola (Chicago R R Donnelley amp Sons 2002) English-Spanish bilingual edition of the classic 1560s narrative by Pedro de Castaneda of the travels of the Coronado Expedition of 1540-42 Special100th anniversary edition in the Lakeside Classics series (published as annual volume from 1902-date) Researched and prepared hundreds of modern annotations for bilingual text wrote major new historical introduction advised and consulted on translations illustrations new cartography and index

13 Authorship Current Book(s)-in-Development

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John Miller Morris The Sweet Long-Ago The Lost Photographers of the South Plains (Volume Two in Plains ofUght series) Fall 2013 submission to TAMU Press Cultural geography work on the turn-of-theshycentury outdoor photographers of the South Plains region Pioneer photographers of Lubbock Midland Big Spring Tahoka Plainview etc Visual documentation of settlement ranching agriculture and environmental transformation Presentation of almost a score of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research biographical profiles and historical research

John Miller Morris The Old Home Place The Lost Photographers of the Rolling Plains (Volume Three in Plains of Ught series) Summer 2012 submission to TAMU Press Photo-historical book on the 1900shy1920s outdoor photographers of the Rolling Plains region of Texas encompassing 26 counties with cities such as Abilene Wichita Falls Post Snyder Sweetwater Electra Burkburnett etc Pioneer photographers and their visual documentation of main streets oil booms ranching agriculture technology and environmental transformation Presentation of almost forty of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research

14 Authorship Book Chapters

Chapter One John Miller Morris First Contact Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of Texas and Mexico in Ty Cashion and Frank de la Teja editors The Human Tradition in Texas (New York Scholarly Resources 2001) Hardback and paperback editions

Chapter Thirteen John Miller Morris First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of the Llano Estacado in Richard and Shirley Flint editors The Coronado Expedition from the Distance of460 Years (Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press Spring 2003) Hardback

Chapter Two John Miller Morris When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacado The Glorious Past and Uncertain Future of the High Plains Family Farm in Sherry L Smith editor The Future of the Southern High Plains (Norman University of Oklahoma Press 2003) Hardback and paperback editions

15 Authorship Book Introductions

Lt James William Abert New Introduction by John Miller MorriS Expedition to the Southwest An 1845 Reconnaissance of Colorado New Mexico Texas and Oklahoma (Lincoln Neb University of Nebraska Press Bison Books 1999 [ISBN 0-8032-5935-2]) 121 pp Provided New Introduction for university press reprinting of Lt James W Aberts 1846 official government report on his exploration of the Southwest United States

W John L Sullivan New Introduction by John Miller MorriS Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers (Lincoln Neb University of Nebraska Press Bison Books 2001 [ISBN 0-8032-9287-2) American West series) 316 pp Initiated reprint request researched and wrote New Introduction for Sgt John Sullivans rare 1909 memoir of life in the Texas Rangers

16 Book EssaylResearch Contribution

Essay John Miller Morris The Search for Cona An Inquiry into Historical Geography (Essay 41) for Marian L Martinello Gillian E Cook and Linda Woodson Modes of Inquiry Voices of Scholars Across the Fields of Study (Carrollton Texas Alliance Press 1998) pp107-12 Re-edited and new edition in 2005

Research Contribution William H Goetzmann and Glyndwr Williams The Atlas of North American Exploration From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole (New York Prentice Hall General Reference 1992 [ISBN 0-13-297128-3) 224 pps Contributor of research articles map research and

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proof supervision for a) To Santa Fe from the East the Explorations of Pierre and Paul Mallet 1739-40 b) The Scouts of New Spain Spanish Trailblazers in the Old Southwest 1786-1808 c) Russia Meets America The Russians in Alaska 1790-1863 and d) Sewards Icebox U S Alaska and the Yukon Gold Rush 1866-98 Co-authorship of articles and maps for a) The Bleak Canadian North Searches for the Northwest Passage 1818-45 and b) Cold and Tragic Shores Searches for Franklin and the Northwest Passage 1846-1905

2 Published Articles

The (Illustrated) Pecos River in Frontier History in Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin eds Southwestern American Literature Volume 33 No2 (Spring 2008) pages 23-38

Exploration in Ron Tyler Douglas E Barnett and Roy Barkley editors The New Handbook of Texas Volume Two (Austin Texas State Historical AssOCiation 1996) pages 917-928 Encyclopedic article on the history of exploration in Texas

Central Texas Street Photography Snapshots on the Cultural Landscape of Public Ufe in Donald Lyons and Paul Hudak eds Geographic Perspectives on the Texas Region (Denton UniverSity of North Texas 1998) 71-80 (ASSOCiation of American Geographers 93rd Conference)

3 Book Reviews

Suzanne Starling Land is the Cry Warren Angus Ferris Pioneer Texas Surveyor and Founder of Dallas County (Austin Texas State Historical Association 1998) Published as the lead book review in Southwestern Historical Quarterly VoICII No4 (April 1999) 525-26

Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nuevea The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest (Niwot Col University Press of Colorado 1997) Published in PanhandleshyPlains Historical Review VolLXXII (1999)

B MAJOR PERFORMANCE I EXHIBIT I MEDIA

1 TelevisionNideo

liThe Texas Rangers -- History Channel (Cable-TV Channel 28) North Hollywood CA one-hour program in The Enforcers series Featured speaker on national television show about the history of the Texas Rangers Worked with Bo Koster Associate Producer of Greystone Communications on this episode in the History Channel series The Enforcers Personal interviews filmed at my home loaned historic photos and did consulting from August-December 2000 Advised on draft scripts and draft video version during production Provided research checked facts and accuracy (VHS and DVD available)

Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective -- PBS-KACV Amarillo Texas one-hour program Worked with Ellen Robertson Neal Director of Public Relations for PBS affiliate in Amarillo on 1999 television show about the explorers of the Texas Panhandle Filmed interviews at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and KACV-TV studios Loaned producers rare photographs and prints for this PBS special The broadcast program and videotape Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective (March 1999) has been used as a promotional incentive during membership drives (Videotape available)

2 Traveling Museum Exhibit

Plains of Light Fields of Vision Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains 1905-1915

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(Seven large exhibit panels and heavy packing case) Traveling photo-historical exhibit on the unsung regional photographers of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains after the turn of the century Identified researched designed and produced this Southwest exhibit on frontier photographers Assembled by the Institute for Texas Cultures in San Antonio this exhibit featured rare and enlarged period photographs silk-screened text and captions a color lithograph map and Texas Quilt background accent designs From 1996 through 1998 the Plains of Light Fields of Vision exhibit toured the museums and public libraries within a fifty county area of Texas Thousands of Northwest Texas residents enjoyed this traveling exhibit

3 Radio and Television

The Future of the Southern Plains 30-minute book interview Glenn Mitchell Show National Public Radio-Dallas KERA (Channel 13) November 2004

Book Interview A Private in the Texas Rangers 30-minute TV show produced by Polly Price for Time Warner-Channel 19 San Antonio August 2001 multiple airings

Texas Place Names 30 minute guest interview for San Antonio public TV show Ordinary People (Paragon Cable TV 20) March 1997 (Videotape available)

In Search of Cona THN Network TV satellite broadcast for Judy Weills Spanish OneEspanol Uno distance learning course October 11 1996 San Antonio Texas

The Meaning of Texas radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV August 191996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

The Coronado Expedition radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV April 1996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

C RESEARCH MATERIALS

BOOK Assembled 4000+ volume research library with specialization in Southwestern historical geography There are many rare items maps publications documents diaries and manuscripts in the collection Acquainted with leading book and map dealers skills in historic document evaluation

PHOTOGRAPHY Assembled 10000+ historic photographs and real photo postcards of Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma The Morris Real Photo Colection of Texas (1900-1930) is the finest period real photo collection for the state Loans andor permissions of visual materials to county museums heritage associations colleagues and media

III SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

TitleDescription DateSponsorPlace

A INVITED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

From the Gulf to the Rockies Cartography of the Fort Worth amp Denver Railroad July 272012 Joint Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society and the Texas Map Society invited one-hour digital media presentation University of Denver College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Denver Colorado

Then and Now Photography of the North Texas Prairies and Plains October 222010 Invited 15 hour digital media presentation and speech Friday evening for the Friends of the UT-Arlington Library Dr Gerald Saxon program chair

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Home Home on the Llano February 262010 Invited conference keynote address and related media presentation for 150th Annual Meeting of the Historical Society ofNew Mexico Western Heritage Museum Theater Hobbs New Mexico

Central Texas Archaeology From Bone amp Stone to Flora amp Fauna February 19 2010 Invited one-hour digital media presentation Capital Area Master Naturalist Program Westcave Nature Preserve Travis County Texas

Colonial Cartography on the Far Frontier April 5 2009 Texas Map Society Spring 2009 Meeting Conference Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers Co-sponsored by the Political Science amp Geography Department University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus San Antonio Texas

The Pecos River in Frontier History March 9 2007 Invited paper and CD-ROM digital presentation for statewide conference The Pecos River Past Present Future Texas River Center Texas State University San Marcos Texas

Small Worlds of the Southern Great Plains February 252005 Wildlife Society Texas Chapter Invited plenary presentation from 8AM-10AM Amarillo Convention Center Amarillo Texas CD-ROM presentation and written speech

Gone to Texas Case Studies in Cultural Geography March 5 2004 Texas State Historical Association 108th Annual Meeting Session 23 Dr Jerry Thompson Chair Austin Texas CD-ROM presentation and written paper

Changing Places Photography Symposium October 20 2001 Invited presentation for the Shifting Landscapes Conference (October 18-20 2001) Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas Co-organized this symposium with the noted professional photographers Rob Amberg and Wayne Lambert

Spanish Cartography of the High Plains April 27 2001 Invited presentation Museum Interpretation of the Spanish Conquest and Colonial PeriodS 1492-1820 Symposium Baylor University and StreckershyMayborn Museum Complex Waco Convention Center (April 7-28 2001) Waco Texas

When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacada April 10 2001 Invited presentation The Future ofthe Southern High Plains Symposium Dr Sherry Smith presiding Southern Methodist University Clements Center Dallas Texas

Commencing a New Century History Technology and Visual Culture in the Texas Panhandle April 27 2000 Invited illustrated presentation Friends of the Cornette Library 25th Annual Dinner Meeting at West Texas AampM University Canyon Texas

First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of Blanco Canyon Keynote address on April 17 2000 7-9PM Invited illustrated presentation for the Contemporary Vantage on the Coronado Expedition April 14-18 2002 Conference sponsored by New Mexico Highlands University and the Floyd County Historical Museum Plains Baptist Assembly Hall in Blanco Canyon [Floyd County] Texas

The Search for Cona Finding a Literary Sense of Place for the Coronado Expedition in Texas September 23 1999 Invited presentation for Our Hidden Hispanic Heritage Second Annual Legends of the Southwest Symposium in Formby Room Southwest Collection Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas

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Lo Llano Europeans on the High Plains of 1541 March 1 1998 Invited presentation for The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest Mogollon Conference (February 28-March1 1998) Albuquerque New Mexico

Springlands and Settlements Mexicos Ojos de Aguas April 15 1989 Invited paper delivered at University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies First Annual Symposium Cultural Adaptation at the Edge of the Spanish Empire A Northern View Sid Richardson Hall Austin Texas

The Coronado Expedition in Texas It November 24 1993 Invited presentation Division of Education and Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San AntoniO San Antonio Texas

Navajo Agriculture and the Dinetah Frontier April 20 1992 Invited presentation Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio Texas

Mysteries of the Llano Estacado December 13 1988 Invited presentation Department of Geography University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Series Austin Texas

The Iron Horse on the High Plains Guidebooks and Environmental Imagery 1872-1892 May 1 1990 Paper and invited presentation delivered at New Mexico State University Department of Earth Sciences Las Cruces New Mexico

B REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

Commentary - Postcards as Documentary Evidence on the Texas Past (Session 5) March 1 2012 Texas State Historical ASSOCiation 116111 Annual Meeting Houston Texas

Homesteading the Western Llano Estacado April 1 2011 digital media presentation for Farming and Ranching on the Last Frontier Session West Texas Historical Association 8lfh Annual Meeting Lubbock Texas

Ethnic Photography and the Cultural Geography of African-Americans in Texas April 16 2010 digital media presentation Panel One for Third Annual African American Studies SympOsium Denman Room University Center UT-San Antonio

A Field Guide to West Texas Postal History 1850s-1890s March 31 2007 Session paper and CDshyROM illustrated presentation delivered to West Texas History AssOCiation 84th Annual Meeting Abilene Texas

Commentary - Business in the Borderlands (Session 48) March 10 2007 Texas State Historical Association 111 th Annual Meeting San AntoniO Texas

E-History or Googling West Texas A Visual Case Study in Web-based Research April 3 2004 West Texas Historical Association Session Six Abilene Texas (CD-ROM presentation and written remarks)

First Arrivals The Caprock Springs of the Eastern Llano Estacado March 18 2004 Association of American Geographers -1OOth Annual Meeting Session 5450 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The Real Photo Artists of West Texas 1907-1920 April 11 2003 West Texas Historical Association 80th Annual Meeting Session Four Lubbock Texas

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Texas Visual Historiography The Regional Real Photo Artists 1906-1919 October 10 2000 Coshyorganized session with Dr Ty Cashion of The Visual Texas Western History Association 40th Annual Conference San Antonio Texas

Shadow Catchers of the Texas Panhandle March 6 1998 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting Austin Texas Organized Session 21 Studies in Texas Photo-history

Landscape Artists of the Southern High Plains Romance to Realism March 28 1998 Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting Boston Massachusetts

Plains of Light Landscape Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains April 4 1997 Session chair and presentation for Historical Geography -- Frontiers Boundary Disputes and Visualization Association of American Geographers 93rd Annual Meeting Fort Worth Texas

Whither Goest Thou Coronado- Rediscovery of the Coronado Expedition in Texas April 13 1996 Paper presentation at Session Historical Aspects of the American West 92nd Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers Charlotte North Carolina

C NONmiddotREFEREED PRESENTATIONS

The Romance of Tom Green County April 142012 Texas Philatelic Association Convention invited digital media presentation for the Texas Postal History Society San Antonio Texas

Home Home on the Llano August 12 2011 Invited digital media presentation for the 1 OOth Anniversary or Centennial Meeting of the Pathfinders Club Burton Memorial Library Clarendon Texas (Donley County)

The First Hundred Years The Lost Photographers of Austin and Central Texas April 1 0 2011 Invited digital media presentation Austin History Association Austin History Center Austin Texas

Silver Falls and Blanco Canyon June 22 2004 Invited public presentation to dedicate the Silver Falls Rest Area a $27 million public improvement project in Blanco Canyon by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) Crosby County Texas

Old Margaret and the Texas Rangers The Miller Diaries of Company B Invited regional symposium May 3-4 2002 Quanah Parker Days Celebration Crowell Texas Foard County

The Real Texas Rangers Invited seminar presentation January 14 2002 Through Their Eyes Student Seminar Education Service Center Region XV San Angelo Texas (Fellow authors were noted writer Elmer Kelton and Dr Andres Tijerina)

Ten Reconceptions of the Famed Texas Rangers June 17 2000 Invited presentation for Lone Stars 177 Years of Ranger History Mike Cox moderator Western Writers ofAmerica Convention YO Ranch Hotel and Resort Kerrville Texas

Russian Cities and Social Change Morning session held June 16 1999 Invited three-hour graduate seminar and training workshop for Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) Summer Institute in Russian Studies for K-12 Teachers

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Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

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The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

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B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

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Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

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Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

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John Miller Morris The Sweet Long-Ago The Lost Photographers of the South Plains (Volume Two in Plains ofUght series) Fall 2013 submission to TAMU Press Cultural geography work on the turn-of-theshycentury outdoor photographers of the South Plains region Pioneer photographers of Lubbock Midland Big Spring Tahoka Plainview etc Visual documentation of settlement ranching agriculture and environmental transformation Presentation of almost a score of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research biographical profiles and historical research

John Miller Morris The Old Home Place The Lost Photographers of the Rolling Plains (Volume Three in Plains of Ught series) Summer 2012 submission to TAMU Press Photo-historical book on the 1900shy1920s outdoor photographers of the Rolling Plains region of Texas encompassing 26 counties with cities such as Abilene Wichita Falls Post Snyder Sweetwater Electra Burkburnett etc Pioneer photographers and their visual documentation of main streets oil booms ranching agriculture technology and environmental transformation Presentation of almost forty of the lost artistic photographers of the region including extensive primary research

14 Authorship Book Chapters

Chapter One John Miller Morris First Contact Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of Texas and Mexico in Ty Cashion and Frank de la Teja editors The Human Tradition in Texas (New York Scholarly Resources 2001) Hardback and paperback editions

Chapter Thirteen John Miller Morris First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of the Llano Estacado in Richard and Shirley Flint editors The Coronado Expedition from the Distance of460 Years (Albuquerque University of New Mexico Press Spring 2003) Hardback

Chapter Two John Miller Morris When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacado The Glorious Past and Uncertain Future of the High Plains Family Farm in Sherry L Smith editor The Future of the Southern High Plains (Norman University of Oklahoma Press 2003) Hardback and paperback editions

15 Authorship Book Introductions

Lt James William Abert New Introduction by John Miller MorriS Expedition to the Southwest An 1845 Reconnaissance of Colorado New Mexico Texas and Oklahoma (Lincoln Neb University of Nebraska Press Bison Books 1999 [ISBN 0-8032-5935-2]) 121 pp Provided New Introduction for university press reprinting of Lt James W Aberts 1846 official government report on his exploration of the Southwest United States

W John L Sullivan New Introduction by John Miller MorriS Twelve Years in the Saddle with the Texas Rangers (Lincoln Neb University of Nebraska Press Bison Books 2001 [ISBN 0-8032-9287-2) American West series) 316 pp Initiated reprint request researched and wrote New Introduction for Sgt John Sullivans rare 1909 memoir of life in the Texas Rangers

16 Book EssaylResearch Contribution

Essay John Miller Morris The Search for Cona An Inquiry into Historical Geography (Essay 41) for Marian L Martinello Gillian E Cook and Linda Woodson Modes of Inquiry Voices of Scholars Across the Fields of Study (Carrollton Texas Alliance Press 1998) pp107-12 Re-edited and new edition in 2005

Research Contribution William H Goetzmann and Glyndwr Williams The Atlas of North American Exploration From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole (New York Prentice Hall General Reference 1992 [ISBN 0-13-297128-3) 224 pps Contributor of research articles map research and

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proof supervision for a) To Santa Fe from the East the Explorations of Pierre and Paul Mallet 1739-40 b) The Scouts of New Spain Spanish Trailblazers in the Old Southwest 1786-1808 c) Russia Meets America The Russians in Alaska 1790-1863 and d) Sewards Icebox U S Alaska and the Yukon Gold Rush 1866-98 Co-authorship of articles and maps for a) The Bleak Canadian North Searches for the Northwest Passage 1818-45 and b) Cold and Tragic Shores Searches for Franklin and the Northwest Passage 1846-1905

2 Published Articles

The (Illustrated) Pecos River in Frontier History in Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin eds Southwestern American Literature Volume 33 No2 (Spring 2008) pages 23-38

Exploration in Ron Tyler Douglas E Barnett and Roy Barkley editors The New Handbook of Texas Volume Two (Austin Texas State Historical AssOCiation 1996) pages 917-928 Encyclopedic article on the history of exploration in Texas

Central Texas Street Photography Snapshots on the Cultural Landscape of Public Ufe in Donald Lyons and Paul Hudak eds Geographic Perspectives on the Texas Region (Denton UniverSity of North Texas 1998) 71-80 (ASSOCiation of American Geographers 93rd Conference)

3 Book Reviews

Suzanne Starling Land is the Cry Warren Angus Ferris Pioneer Texas Surveyor and Founder of Dallas County (Austin Texas State Historical Association 1998) Published as the lead book review in Southwestern Historical Quarterly VoICII No4 (April 1999) 525-26

Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nuevea The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest (Niwot Col University Press of Colorado 1997) Published in PanhandleshyPlains Historical Review VolLXXII (1999)

B MAJOR PERFORMANCE I EXHIBIT I MEDIA

1 TelevisionNideo

liThe Texas Rangers -- History Channel (Cable-TV Channel 28) North Hollywood CA one-hour program in The Enforcers series Featured speaker on national television show about the history of the Texas Rangers Worked with Bo Koster Associate Producer of Greystone Communications on this episode in the History Channel series The Enforcers Personal interviews filmed at my home loaned historic photos and did consulting from August-December 2000 Advised on draft scripts and draft video version during production Provided research checked facts and accuracy (VHS and DVD available)

Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective -- PBS-KACV Amarillo Texas one-hour program Worked with Ellen Robertson Neal Director of Public Relations for PBS affiliate in Amarillo on 1999 television show about the explorers of the Texas Panhandle Filmed interviews at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and KACV-TV studios Loaned producers rare photographs and prints for this PBS special The broadcast program and videotape Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective (March 1999) has been used as a promotional incentive during membership drives (Videotape available)

2 Traveling Museum Exhibit

Plains of Light Fields of Vision Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains 1905-1915

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(Seven large exhibit panels and heavy packing case) Traveling photo-historical exhibit on the unsung regional photographers of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains after the turn of the century Identified researched designed and produced this Southwest exhibit on frontier photographers Assembled by the Institute for Texas Cultures in San Antonio this exhibit featured rare and enlarged period photographs silk-screened text and captions a color lithograph map and Texas Quilt background accent designs From 1996 through 1998 the Plains of Light Fields of Vision exhibit toured the museums and public libraries within a fifty county area of Texas Thousands of Northwest Texas residents enjoyed this traveling exhibit

3 Radio and Television

The Future of the Southern Plains 30-minute book interview Glenn Mitchell Show National Public Radio-Dallas KERA (Channel 13) November 2004

Book Interview A Private in the Texas Rangers 30-minute TV show produced by Polly Price for Time Warner-Channel 19 San Antonio August 2001 multiple airings

Texas Place Names 30 minute guest interview for San Antonio public TV show Ordinary People (Paragon Cable TV 20) March 1997 (Videotape available)

In Search of Cona THN Network TV satellite broadcast for Judy Weills Spanish OneEspanol Uno distance learning course October 11 1996 San Antonio Texas

The Meaning of Texas radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV August 191996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

The Coronado Expedition radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV April 1996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

C RESEARCH MATERIALS

BOOK Assembled 4000+ volume research library with specialization in Southwestern historical geography There are many rare items maps publications documents diaries and manuscripts in the collection Acquainted with leading book and map dealers skills in historic document evaluation

PHOTOGRAPHY Assembled 10000+ historic photographs and real photo postcards of Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma The Morris Real Photo Colection of Texas (1900-1930) is the finest period real photo collection for the state Loans andor permissions of visual materials to county museums heritage associations colleagues and media

III SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

TitleDescription DateSponsorPlace

A INVITED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

From the Gulf to the Rockies Cartography of the Fort Worth amp Denver Railroad July 272012 Joint Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society and the Texas Map Society invited one-hour digital media presentation University of Denver College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Denver Colorado

Then and Now Photography of the North Texas Prairies and Plains October 222010 Invited 15 hour digital media presentation and speech Friday evening for the Friends of the UT-Arlington Library Dr Gerald Saxon program chair

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Home Home on the Llano February 262010 Invited conference keynote address and related media presentation for 150th Annual Meeting of the Historical Society ofNew Mexico Western Heritage Museum Theater Hobbs New Mexico

Central Texas Archaeology From Bone amp Stone to Flora amp Fauna February 19 2010 Invited one-hour digital media presentation Capital Area Master Naturalist Program Westcave Nature Preserve Travis County Texas

Colonial Cartography on the Far Frontier April 5 2009 Texas Map Society Spring 2009 Meeting Conference Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers Co-sponsored by the Political Science amp Geography Department University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus San Antonio Texas

The Pecos River in Frontier History March 9 2007 Invited paper and CD-ROM digital presentation for statewide conference The Pecos River Past Present Future Texas River Center Texas State University San Marcos Texas

Small Worlds of the Southern Great Plains February 252005 Wildlife Society Texas Chapter Invited plenary presentation from 8AM-10AM Amarillo Convention Center Amarillo Texas CD-ROM presentation and written speech

Gone to Texas Case Studies in Cultural Geography March 5 2004 Texas State Historical Association 108th Annual Meeting Session 23 Dr Jerry Thompson Chair Austin Texas CD-ROM presentation and written paper

Changing Places Photography Symposium October 20 2001 Invited presentation for the Shifting Landscapes Conference (October 18-20 2001) Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas Co-organized this symposium with the noted professional photographers Rob Amberg and Wayne Lambert

Spanish Cartography of the High Plains April 27 2001 Invited presentation Museum Interpretation of the Spanish Conquest and Colonial PeriodS 1492-1820 Symposium Baylor University and StreckershyMayborn Museum Complex Waco Convention Center (April 7-28 2001) Waco Texas

When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacada April 10 2001 Invited presentation The Future ofthe Southern High Plains Symposium Dr Sherry Smith presiding Southern Methodist University Clements Center Dallas Texas

Commencing a New Century History Technology and Visual Culture in the Texas Panhandle April 27 2000 Invited illustrated presentation Friends of the Cornette Library 25th Annual Dinner Meeting at West Texas AampM University Canyon Texas

First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of Blanco Canyon Keynote address on April 17 2000 7-9PM Invited illustrated presentation for the Contemporary Vantage on the Coronado Expedition April 14-18 2002 Conference sponsored by New Mexico Highlands University and the Floyd County Historical Museum Plains Baptist Assembly Hall in Blanco Canyon [Floyd County] Texas

The Search for Cona Finding a Literary Sense of Place for the Coronado Expedition in Texas September 23 1999 Invited presentation for Our Hidden Hispanic Heritage Second Annual Legends of the Southwest Symposium in Formby Room Southwest Collection Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas

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Lo Llano Europeans on the High Plains of 1541 March 1 1998 Invited presentation for The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest Mogollon Conference (February 28-March1 1998) Albuquerque New Mexico

Springlands and Settlements Mexicos Ojos de Aguas April 15 1989 Invited paper delivered at University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies First Annual Symposium Cultural Adaptation at the Edge of the Spanish Empire A Northern View Sid Richardson Hall Austin Texas

The Coronado Expedition in Texas It November 24 1993 Invited presentation Division of Education and Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San AntoniO San Antonio Texas

Navajo Agriculture and the Dinetah Frontier April 20 1992 Invited presentation Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio Texas

Mysteries of the Llano Estacado December 13 1988 Invited presentation Department of Geography University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Series Austin Texas

The Iron Horse on the High Plains Guidebooks and Environmental Imagery 1872-1892 May 1 1990 Paper and invited presentation delivered at New Mexico State University Department of Earth Sciences Las Cruces New Mexico

B REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

Commentary - Postcards as Documentary Evidence on the Texas Past (Session 5) March 1 2012 Texas State Historical ASSOCiation 116111 Annual Meeting Houston Texas

Homesteading the Western Llano Estacado April 1 2011 digital media presentation for Farming and Ranching on the Last Frontier Session West Texas Historical Association 8lfh Annual Meeting Lubbock Texas

Ethnic Photography and the Cultural Geography of African-Americans in Texas April 16 2010 digital media presentation Panel One for Third Annual African American Studies SympOsium Denman Room University Center UT-San Antonio

A Field Guide to West Texas Postal History 1850s-1890s March 31 2007 Session paper and CDshyROM illustrated presentation delivered to West Texas History AssOCiation 84th Annual Meeting Abilene Texas

Commentary - Business in the Borderlands (Session 48) March 10 2007 Texas State Historical Association 111 th Annual Meeting San AntoniO Texas

E-History or Googling West Texas A Visual Case Study in Web-based Research April 3 2004 West Texas Historical Association Session Six Abilene Texas (CD-ROM presentation and written remarks)

First Arrivals The Caprock Springs of the Eastern Llano Estacado March 18 2004 Association of American Geographers -1OOth Annual Meeting Session 5450 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The Real Photo Artists of West Texas 1907-1920 April 11 2003 West Texas Historical Association 80th Annual Meeting Session Four Lubbock Texas

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Texas Visual Historiography The Regional Real Photo Artists 1906-1919 October 10 2000 Coshyorganized session with Dr Ty Cashion of The Visual Texas Western History Association 40th Annual Conference San Antonio Texas

Shadow Catchers of the Texas Panhandle March 6 1998 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting Austin Texas Organized Session 21 Studies in Texas Photo-history

Landscape Artists of the Southern High Plains Romance to Realism March 28 1998 Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting Boston Massachusetts

Plains of Light Landscape Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains April 4 1997 Session chair and presentation for Historical Geography -- Frontiers Boundary Disputes and Visualization Association of American Geographers 93rd Annual Meeting Fort Worth Texas

Whither Goest Thou Coronado- Rediscovery of the Coronado Expedition in Texas April 13 1996 Paper presentation at Session Historical Aspects of the American West 92nd Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers Charlotte North Carolina

C NONmiddotREFEREED PRESENTATIONS

The Romance of Tom Green County April 142012 Texas Philatelic Association Convention invited digital media presentation for the Texas Postal History Society San Antonio Texas

Home Home on the Llano August 12 2011 Invited digital media presentation for the 1 OOth Anniversary or Centennial Meeting of the Pathfinders Club Burton Memorial Library Clarendon Texas (Donley County)

The First Hundred Years The Lost Photographers of Austin and Central Texas April 1 0 2011 Invited digital media presentation Austin History Association Austin History Center Austin Texas

Silver Falls and Blanco Canyon June 22 2004 Invited public presentation to dedicate the Silver Falls Rest Area a $27 million public improvement project in Blanco Canyon by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) Crosby County Texas

Old Margaret and the Texas Rangers The Miller Diaries of Company B Invited regional symposium May 3-4 2002 Quanah Parker Days Celebration Crowell Texas Foard County

The Real Texas Rangers Invited seminar presentation January 14 2002 Through Their Eyes Student Seminar Education Service Center Region XV San Angelo Texas (Fellow authors were noted writer Elmer Kelton and Dr Andres Tijerina)

Ten Reconceptions of the Famed Texas Rangers June 17 2000 Invited presentation for Lone Stars 177 Years of Ranger History Mike Cox moderator Western Writers ofAmerica Convention YO Ranch Hotel and Resort Kerrville Texas

Russian Cities and Social Change Morning session held June 16 1999 Invited three-hour graduate seminar and training workshop for Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) Summer Institute in Russian Studies for K-12 Teachers

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Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

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The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

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B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

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Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

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Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

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proof supervision for a) To Santa Fe from the East the Explorations of Pierre and Paul Mallet 1739-40 b) The Scouts of New Spain Spanish Trailblazers in the Old Southwest 1786-1808 c) Russia Meets America The Russians in Alaska 1790-1863 and d) Sewards Icebox U S Alaska and the Yukon Gold Rush 1866-98 Co-authorship of articles and maps for a) The Bleak Canadian North Searches for the Northwest Passage 1818-45 and b) Cold and Tragic Shores Searches for Franklin and the Northwest Passage 1846-1905

2 Published Articles

The (Illustrated) Pecos River in Frontier History in Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin eds Southwestern American Literature Volume 33 No2 (Spring 2008) pages 23-38

Exploration in Ron Tyler Douglas E Barnett and Roy Barkley editors The New Handbook of Texas Volume Two (Austin Texas State Historical AssOCiation 1996) pages 917-928 Encyclopedic article on the history of exploration in Texas

Central Texas Street Photography Snapshots on the Cultural Landscape of Public Ufe in Donald Lyons and Paul Hudak eds Geographic Perspectives on the Texas Region (Denton UniverSity of North Texas 1998) 71-80 (ASSOCiation of American Geographers 93rd Conference)

3 Book Reviews

Suzanne Starling Land is the Cry Warren Angus Ferris Pioneer Texas Surveyor and Founder of Dallas County (Austin Texas State Historical Association 1998) Published as the lead book review in Southwestern Historical Quarterly VoICII No4 (April 1999) 525-26

Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nuevea The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest (Niwot Col University Press of Colorado 1997) Published in PanhandleshyPlains Historical Review VolLXXII (1999)

B MAJOR PERFORMANCE I EXHIBIT I MEDIA

1 TelevisionNideo

liThe Texas Rangers -- History Channel (Cable-TV Channel 28) North Hollywood CA one-hour program in The Enforcers series Featured speaker on national television show about the history of the Texas Rangers Worked with Bo Koster Associate Producer of Greystone Communications on this episode in the History Channel series The Enforcers Personal interviews filmed at my home loaned historic photos and did consulting from August-December 2000 Advised on draft scripts and draft video version during production Provided research checked facts and accuracy (VHS and DVD available)

Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective -- PBS-KACV Amarillo Texas one-hour program Worked with Ellen Robertson Neal Director of Public Relations for PBS affiliate in Amarillo on 1999 television show about the explorers of the Texas Panhandle Filmed interviews at Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and KACV-TV studios Loaned producers rare photographs and prints for this PBS special The broadcast program and videotape Trailblazers A Panhandle Perspective (March 1999) has been used as a promotional incentive during membership drives (Videotape available)

2 Traveling Museum Exhibit

Plains of Light Fields of Vision Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains 1905-1915

6

(Seven large exhibit panels and heavy packing case) Traveling photo-historical exhibit on the unsung regional photographers of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains after the turn of the century Identified researched designed and produced this Southwest exhibit on frontier photographers Assembled by the Institute for Texas Cultures in San Antonio this exhibit featured rare and enlarged period photographs silk-screened text and captions a color lithograph map and Texas Quilt background accent designs From 1996 through 1998 the Plains of Light Fields of Vision exhibit toured the museums and public libraries within a fifty county area of Texas Thousands of Northwest Texas residents enjoyed this traveling exhibit

3 Radio and Television

The Future of the Southern Plains 30-minute book interview Glenn Mitchell Show National Public Radio-Dallas KERA (Channel 13) November 2004

Book Interview A Private in the Texas Rangers 30-minute TV show produced by Polly Price for Time Warner-Channel 19 San Antonio August 2001 multiple airings

Texas Place Names 30 minute guest interview for San Antonio public TV show Ordinary People (Paragon Cable TV 20) March 1997 (Videotape available)

In Search of Cona THN Network TV satellite broadcast for Judy Weills Spanish OneEspanol Uno distance learning course October 11 1996 San Antonio Texas

The Meaning of Texas radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV August 191996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

The Coronado Expedition radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV April 1996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

C RESEARCH MATERIALS

BOOK Assembled 4000+ volume research library with specialization in Southwestern historical geography There are many rare items maps publications documents diaries and manuscripts in the collection Acquainted with leading book and map dealers skills in historic document evaluation

PHOTOGRAPHY Assembled 10000+ historic photographs and real photo postcards of Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma The Morris Real Photo Colection of Texas (1900-1930) is the finest period real photo collection for the state Loans andor permissions of visual materials to county museums heritage associations colleagues and media

III SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

TitleDescription DateSponsorPlace

A INVITED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

From the Gulf to the Rockies Cartography of the Fort Worth amp Denver Railroad July 272012 Joint Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society and the Texas Map Society invited one-hour digital media presentation University of Denver College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Denver Colorado

Then and Now Photography of the North Texas Prairies and Plains October 222010 Invited 15 hour digital media presentation and speech Friday evening for the Friends of the UT-Arlington Library Dr Gerald Saxon program chair

7

Home Home on the Llano February 262010 Invited conference keynote address and related media presentation for 150th Annual Meeting of the Historical Society ofNew Mexico Western Heritage Museum Theater Hobbs New Mexico

Central Texas Archaeology From Bone amp Stone to Flora amp Fauna February 19 2010 Invited one-hour digital media presentation Capital Area Master Naturalist Program Westcave Nature Preserve Travis County Texas

Colonial Cartography on the Far Frontier April 5 2009 Texas Map Society Spring 2009 Meeting Conference Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers Co-sponsored by the Political Science amp Geography Department University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus San Antonio Texas

The Pecos River in Frontier History March 9 2007 Invited paper and CD-ROM digital presentation for statewide conference The Pecos River Past Present Future Texas River Center Texas State University San Marcos Texas

Small Worlds of the Southern Great Plains February 252005 Wildlife Society Texas Chapter Invited plenary presentation from 8AM-10AM Amarillo Convention Center Amarillo Texas CD-ROM presentation and written speech

Gone to Texas Case Studies in Cultural Geography March 5 2004 Texas State Historical Association 108th Annual Meeting Session 23 Dr Jerry Thompson Chair Austin Texas CD-ROM presentation and written paper

Changing Places Photography Symposium October 20 2001 Invited presentation for the Shifting Landscapes Conference (October 18-20 2001) Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas Co-organized this symposium with the noted professional photographers Rob Amberg and Wayne Lambert

Spanish Cartography of the High Plains April 27 2001 Invited presentation Museum Interpretation of the Spanish Conquest and Colonial PeriodS 1492-1820 Symposium Baylor University and StreckershyMayborn Museum Complex Waco Convention Center (April 7-28 2001) Waco Texas

When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacada April 10 2001 Invited presentation The Future ofthe Southern High Plains Symposium Dr Sherry Smith presiding Southern Methodist University Clements Center Dallas Texas

Commencing a New Century History Technology and Visual Culture in the Texas Panhandle April 27 2000 Invited illustrated presentation Friends of the Cornette Library 25th Annual Dinner Meeting at West Texas AampM University Canyon Texas

First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of Blanco Canyon Keynote address on April 17 2000 7-9PM Invited illustrated presentation for the Contemporary Vantage on the Coronado Expedition April 14-18 2002 Conference sponsored by New Mexico Highlands University and the Floyd County Historical Museum Plains Baptist Assembly Hall in Blanco Canyon [Floyd County] Texas

The Search for Cona Finding a Literary Sense of Place for the Coronado Expedition in Texas September 23 1999 Invited presentation for Our Hidden Hispanic Heritage Second Annual Legends of the Southwest Symposium in Formby Room Southwest Collection Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas

8

Lo Llano Europeans on the High Plains of 1541 March 1 1998 Invited presentation for The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest Mogollon Conference (February 28-March1 1998) Albuquerque New Mexico

Springlands and Settlements Mexicos Ojos de Aguas April 15 1989 Invited paper delivered at University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies First Annual Symposium Cultural Adaptation at the Edge of the Spanish Empire A Northern View Sid Richardson Hall Austin Texas

The Coronado Expedition in Texas It November 24 1993 Invited presentation Division of Education and Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San AntoniO San Antonio Texas

Navajo Agriculture and the Dinetah Frontier April 20 1992 Invited presentation Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio Texas

Mysteries of the Llano Estacado December 13 1988 Invited presentation Department of Geography University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Series Austin Texas

The Iron Horse on the High Plains Guidebooks and Environmental Imagery 1872-1892 May 1 1990 Paper and invited presentation delivered at New Mexico State University Department of Earth Sciences Las Cruces New Mexico

B REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

Commentary - Postcards as Documentary Evidence on the Texas Past (Session 5) March 1 2012 Texas State Historical ASSOCiation 116111 Annual Meeting Houston Texas

Homesteading the Western Llano Estacado April 1 2011 digital media presentation for Farming and Ranching on the Last Frontier Session West Texas Historical Association 8lfh Annual Meeting Lubbock Texas

Ethnic Photography and the Cultural Geography of African-Americans in Texas April 16 2010 digital media presentation Panel One for Third Annual African American Studies SympOsium Denman Room University Center UT-San Antonio

A Field Guide to West Texas Postal History 1850s-1890s March 31 2007 Session paper and CDshyROM illustrated presentation delivered to West Texas History AssOCiation 84th Annual Meeting Abilene Texas

Commentary - Business in the Borderlands (Session 48) March 10 2007 Texas State Historical Association 111 th Annual Meeting San AntoniO Texas

E-History or Googling West Texas A Visual Case Study in Web-based Research April 3 2004 West Texas Historical Association Session Six Abilene Texas (CD-ROM presentation and written remarks)

First Arrivals The Caprock Springs of the Eastern Llano Estacado March 18 2004 Association of American Geographers -1OOth Annual Meeting Session 5450 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The Real Photo Artists of West Texas 1907-1920 April 11 2003 West Texas Historical Association 80th Annual Meeting Session Four Lubbock Texas

9

Texas Visual Historiography The Regional Real Photo Artists 1906-1919 October 10 2000 Coshyorganized session with Dr Ty Cashion of The Visual Texas Western History Association 40th Annual Conference San Antonio Texas

Shadow Catchers of the Texas Panhandle March 6 1998 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting Austin Texas Organized Session 21 Studies in Texas Photo-history

Landscape Artists of the Southern High Plains Romance to Realism March 28 1998 Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting Boston Massachusetts

Plains of Light Landscape Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains April 4 1997 Session chair and presentation for Historical Geography -- Frontiers Boundary Disputes and Visualization Association of American Geographers 93rd Annual Meeting Fort Worth Texas

Whither Goest Thou Coronado- Rediscovery of the Coronado Expedition in Texas April 13 1996 Paper presentation at Session Historical Aspects of the American West 92nd Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers Charlotte North Carolina

C NONmiddotREFEREED PRESENTATIONS

The Romance of Tom Green County April 142012 Texas Philatelic Association Convention invited digital media presentation for the Texas Postal History Society San Antonio Texas

Home Home on the Llano August 12 2011 Invited digital media presentation for the 1 OOth Anniversary or Centennial Meeting of the Pathfinders Club Burton Memorial Library Clarendon Texas (Donley County)

The First Hundred Years The Lost Photographers of Austin and Central Texas April 1 0 2011 Invited digital media presentation Austin History Association Austin History Center Austin Texas

Silver Falls and Blanco Canyon June 22 2004 Invited public presentation to dedicate the Silver Falls Rest Area a $27 million public improvement project in Blanco Canyon by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) Crosby County Texas

Old Margaret and the Texas Rangers The Miller Diaries of Company B Invited regional symposium May 3-4 2002 Quanah Parker Days Celebration Crowell Texas Foard County

The Real Texas Rangers Invited seminar presentation January 14 2002 Through Their Eyes Student Seminar Education Service Center Region XV San Angelo Texas (Fellow authors were noted writer Elmer Kelton and Dr Andres Tijerina)

Ten Reconceptions of the Famed Texas Rangers June 17 2000 Invited presentation for Lone Stars 177 Years of Ranger History Mike Cox moderator Western Writers ofAmerica Convention YO Ranch Hotel and Resort Kerrville Texas

Russian Cities and Social Change Morning session held June 16 1999 Invited three-hour graduate seminar and training workshop for Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) Summer Institute in Russian Studies for K-12 Teachers

10

Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

11

The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

12

B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

13

Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

14

Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

15

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(Seven large exhibit panels and heavy packing case) Traveling photo-historical exhibit on the unsung regional photographers of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains after the turn of the century Identified researched designed and produced this Southwest exhibit on frontier photographers Assembled by the Institute for Texas Cultures in San Antonio this exhibit featured rare and enlarged period photographs silk-screened text and captions a color lithograph map and Texas Quilt background accent designs From 1996 through 1998 the Plains of Light Fields of Vision exhibit toured the museums and public libraries within a fifty county area of Texas Thousands of Northwest Texas residents enjoyed this traveling exhibit

3 Radio and Television

The Future of the Southern Plains 30-minute book interview Glenn Mitchell Show National Public Radio-Dallas KERA (Channel 13) November 2004

Book Interview A Private in the Texas Rangers 30-minute TV show produced by Polly Price for Time Warner-Channel 19 San Antonio August 2001 multiple airings

Texas Place Names 30 minute guest interview for San Antonio public TV show Ordinary People (Paragon Cable TV 20) March 1997 (Videotape available)

In Search of Cona THN Network TV satellite broadcast for Judy Weills Spanish OneEspanol Uno distance learning course October 11 1996 San Antonio Texas

The Meaning of Texas radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV August 191996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

The Coronado Expedition radio interview for Davis Rankin Show KURV April 1996 (10-11AM) Brownsville Texas (Cassette tape)

C RESEARCH MATERIALS

BOOK Assembled 4000+ volume research library with specialization in Southwestern historical geography There are many rare items maps publications documents diaries and manuscripts in the collection Acquainted with leading book and map dealers skills in historic document evaluation

PHOTOGRAPHY Assembled 10000+ historic photographs and real photo postcards of Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma The Morris Real Photo Colection of Texas (1900-1930) is the finest period real photo collection for the state Loans andor permissions of visual materials to county museums heritage associations colleagues and media

III SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

TitleDescription DateSponsorPlace

A INVITED SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS

From the Gulf to the Rockies Cartography of the Fort Worth amp Denver Railroad July 272012 Joint Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Map Society and the Texas Map Society invited one-hour digital media presentation University of Denver College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences Denver Colorado

Then and Now Photography of the North Texas Prairies and Plains October 222010 Invited 15 hour digital media presentation and speech Friday evening for the Friends of the UT-Arlington Library Dr Gerald Saxon program chair

7

Home Home on the Llano February 262010 Invited conference keynote address and related media presentation for 150th Annual Meeting of the Historical Society ofNew Mexico Western Heritage Museum Theater Hobbs New Mexico

Central Texas Archaeology From Bone amp Stone to Flora amp Fauna February 19 2010 Invited one-hour digital media presentation Capital Area Master Naturalist Program Westcave Nature Preserve Travis County Texas

Colonial Cartography on the Far Frontier April 5 2009 Texas Map Society Spring 2009 Meeting Conference Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers Co-sponsored by the Political Science amp Geography Department University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus San Antonio Texas

The Pecos River in Frontier History March 9 2007 Invited paper and CD-ROM digital presentation for statewide conference The Pecos River Past Present Future Texas River Center Texas State University San Marcos Texas

Small Worlds of the Southern Great Plains February 252005 Wildlife Society Texas Chapter Invited plenary presentation from 8AM-10AM Amarillo Convention Center Amarillo Texas CD-ROM presentation and written speech

Gone to Texas Case Studies in Cultural Geography March 5 2004 Texas State Historical Association 108th Annual Meeting Session 23 Dr Jerry Thompson Chair Austin Texas CD-ROM presentation and written paper

Changing Places Photography Symposium October 20 2001 Invited presentation for the Shifting Landscapes Conference (October 18-20 2001) Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas Co-organized this symposium with the noted professional photographers Rob Amberg and Wayne Lambert

Spanish Cartography of the High Plains April 27 2001 Invited presentation Museum Interpretation of the Spanish Conquest and Colonial PeriodS 1492-1820 Symposium Baylor University and StreckershyMayborn Museum Complex Waco Convention Center (April 7-28 2001) Waco Texas

When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacada April 10 2001 Invited presentation The Future ofthe Southern High Plains Symposium Dr Sherry Smith presiding Southern Methodist University Clements Center Dallas Texas

Commencing a New Century History Technology and Visual Culture in the Texas Panhandle April 27 2000 Invited illustrated presentation Friends of the Cornette Library 25th Annual Dinner Meeting at West Texas AampM University Canyon Texas

First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of Blanco Canyon Keynote address on April 17 2000 7-9PM Invited illustrated presentation for the Contemporary Vantage on the Coronado Expedition April 14-18 2002 Conference sponsored by New Mexico Highlands University and the Floyd County Historical Museum Plains Baptist Assembly Hall in Blanco Canyon [Floyd County] Texas

The Search for Cona Finding a Literary Sense of Place for the Coronado Expedition in Texas September 23 1999 Invited presentation for Our Hidden Hispanic Heritage Second Annual Legends of the Southwest Symposium in Formby Room Southwest Collection Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas

8

Lo Llano Europeans on the High Plains of 1541 March 1 1998 Invited presentation for The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest Mogollon Conference (February 28-March1 1998) Albuquerque New Mexico

Springlands and Settlements Mexicos Ojos de Aguas April 15 1989 Invited paper delivered at University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies First Annual Symposium Cultural Adaptation at the Edge of the Spanish Empire A Northern View Sid Richardson Hall Austin Texas

The Coronado Expedition in Texas It November 24 1993 Invited presentation Division of Education and Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San AntoniO San Antonio Texas

Navajo Agriculture and the Dinetah Frontier April 20 1992 Invited presentation Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio Texas

Mysteries of the Llano Estacado December 13 1988 Invited presentation Department of Geography University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Series Austin Texas

The Iron Horse on the High Plains Guidebooks and Environmental Imagery 1872-1892 May 1 1990 Paper and invited presentation delivered at New Mexico State University Department of Earth Sciences Las Cruces New Mexico

B REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

Commentary - Postcards as Documentary Evidence on the Texas Past (Session 5) March 1 2012 Texas State Historical ASSOCiation 116111 Annual Meeting Houston Texas

Homesteading the Western Llano Estacado April 1 2011 digital media presentation for Farming and Ranching on the Last Frontier Session West Texas Historical Association 8lfh Annual Meeting Lubbock Texas

Ethnic Photography and the Cultural Geography of African-Americans in Texas April 16 2010 digital media presentation Panel One for Third Annual African American Studies SympOsium Denman Room University Center UT-San Antonio

A Field Guide to West Texas Postal History 1850s-1890s March 31 2007 Session paper and CDshyROM illustrated presentation delivered to West Texas History AssOCiation 84th Annual Meeting Abilene Texas

Commentary - Business in the Borderlands (Session 48) March 10 2007 Texas State Historical Association 111 th Annual Meeting San AntoniO Texas

E-History or Googling West Texas A Visual Case Study in Web-based Research April 3 2004 West Texas Historical Association Session Six Abilene Texas (CD-ROM presentation and written remarks)

First Arrivals The Caprock Springs of the Eastern Llano Estacado March 18 2004 Association of American Geographers -1OOth Annual Meeting Session 5450 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The Real Photo Artists of West Texas 1907-1920 April 11 2003 West Texas Historical Association 80th Annual Meeting Session Four Lubbock Texas

9

Texas Visual Historiography The Regional Real Photo Artists 1906-1919 October 10 2000 Coshyorganized session with Dr Ty Cashion of The Visual Texas Western History Association 40th Annual Conference San Antonio Texas

Shadow Catchers of the Texas Panhandle March 6 1998 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting Austin Texas Organized Session 21 Studies in Texas Photo-history

Landscape Artists of the Southern High Plains Romance to Realism March 28 1998 Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting Boston Massachusetts

Plains of Light Landscape Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains April 4 1997 Session chair and presentation for Historical Geography -- Frontiers Boundary Disputes and Visualization Association of American Geographers 93rd Annual Meeting Fort Worth Texas

Whither Goest Thou Coronado- Rediscovery of the Coronado Expedition in Texas April 13 1996 Paper presentation at Session Historical Aspects of the American West 92nd Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers Charlotte North Carolina

C NONmiddotREFEREED PRESENTATIONS

The Romance of Tom Green County April 142012 Texas Philatelic Association Convention invited digital media presentation for the Texas Postal History Society San Antonio Texas

Home Home on the Llano August 12 2011 Invited digital media presentation for the 1 OOth Anniversary or Centennial Meeting of the Pathfinders Club Burton Memorial Library Clarendon Texas (Donley County)

The First Hundred Years The Lost Photographers of Austin and Central Texas April 1 0 2011 Invited digital media presentation Austin History Association Austin History Center Austin Texas

Silver Falls and Blanco Canyon June 22 2004 Invited public presentation to dedicate the Silver Falls Rest Area a $27 million public improvement project in Blanco Canyon by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) Crosby County Texas

Old Margaret and the Texas Rangers The Miller Diaries of Company B Invited regional symposium May 3-4 2002 Quanah Parker Days Celebration Crowell Texas Foard County

The Real Texas Rangers Invited seminar presentation January 14 2002 Through Their Eyes Student Seminar Education Service Center Region XV San Angelo Texas (Fellow authors were noted writer Elmer Kelton and Dr Andres Tijerina)

Ten Reconceptions of the Famed Texas Rangers June 17 2000 Invited presentation for Lone Stars 177 Years of Ranger History Mike Cox moderator Western Writers ofAmerica Convention YO Ranch Hotel and Resort Kerrville Texas

Russian Cities and Social Change Morning session held June 16 1999 Invited three-hour graduate seminar and training workshop for Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) Summer Institute in Russian Studies for K-12 Teachers

10

Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

11

The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

12

B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

13

Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

14

Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

15

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Home Home on the Llano February 262010 Invited conference keynote address and related media presentation for 150th Annual Meeting of the Historical Society ofNew Mexico Western Heritage Museum Theater Hobbs New Mexico

Central Texas Archaeology From Bone amp Stone to Flora amp Fauna February 19 2010 Invited one-hour digital media presentation Capital Area Master Naturalist Program Westcave Nature Preserve Travis County Texas

Colonial Cartography on the Far Frontier April 5 2009 Texas Map Society Spring 2009 Meeting Conference Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers Co-sponsored by the Political Science amp Geography Department University of Texas at San Antonio Downtown Campus San Antonio Texas

The Pecos River in Frontier History March 9 2007 Invited paper and CD-ROM digital presentation for statewide conference The Pecos River Past Present Future Texas River Center Texas State University San Marcos Texas

Small Worlds of the Southern Great Plains February 252005 Wildlife Society Texas Chapter Invited plenary presentation from 8AM-10AM Amarillo Convention Center Amarillo Texas CD-ROM presentation and written speech

Gone to Texas Case Studies in Cultural Geography March 5 2004 Texas State Historical Association 108th Annual Meeting Session 23 Dr Jerry Thompson Chair Austin Texas CD-ROM presentation and written paper

Changing Places Photography Symposium October 20 2001 Invited presentation for the Shifting Landscapes Conference (October 18-20 2001) Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas Co-organized this symposium with the noted professional photographers Rob Amberg and Wayne Lambert

Spanish Cartography of the High Plains April 27 2001 Invited presentation Museum Interpretation of the Spanish Conquest and Colonial PeriodS 1492-1820 Symposium Baylor University and StreckershyMayborn Museum Complex Waco Convention Center (April 7-28 2001) Waco Texas

When Corporations Rule the Llano Estacada April 10 2001 Invited presentation The Future ofthe Southern High Plains Symposium Dr Sherry Smith presiding Southern Methodist University Clements Center Dallas Texas

Commencing a New Century History Technology and Visual Culture in the Texas Panhandle April 27 2000 Invited illustrated presentation Friends of the Cornette Library 25th Annual Dinner Meeting at West Texas AampM University Canyon Texas

First Arrivals Coronado Hank Smith and the Old Springs of Blanco Canyon Keynote address on April 17 2000 7-9PM Invited illustrated presentation for the Contemporary Vantage on the Coronado Expedition April 14-18 2002 Conference sponsored by New Mexico Highlands University and the Floyd County Historical Museum Plains Baptist Assembly Hall in Blanco Canyon [Floyd County] Texas

The Search for Cona Finding a Literary Sense of Place for the Coronado Expedition in Texas September 23 1999 Invited presentation for Our Hidden Hispanic Heritage Second Annual Legends of the Southwest Symposium in Formby Room Southwest Collection Texas Tech University Lubbock Texas

8

Lo Llano Europeans on the High Plains of 1541 March 1 1998 Invited presentation for The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest Mogollon Conference (February 28-March1 1998) Albuquerque New Mexico

Springlands and Settlements Mexicos Ojos de Aguas April 15 1989 Invited paper delivered at University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies First Annual Symposium Cultural Adaptation at the Edge of the Spanish Empire A Northern View Sid Richardson Hall Austin Texas

The Coronado Expedition in Texas It November 24 1993 Invited presentation Division of Education and Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San AntoniO San Antonio Texas

Navajo Agriculture and the Dinetah Frontier April 20 1992 Invited presentation Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio Texas

Mysteries of the Llano Estacado December 13 1988 Invited presentation Department of Geography University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Series Austin Texas

The Iron Horse on the High Plains Guidebooks and Environmental Imagery 1872-1892 May 1 1990 Paper and invited presentation delivered at New Mexico State University Department of Earth Sciences Las Cruces New Mexico

B REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

Commentary - Postcards as Documentary Evidence on the Texas Past (Session 5) March 1 2012 Texas State Historical ASSOCiation 116111 Annual Meeting Houston Texas

Homesteading the Western Llano Estacado April 1 2011 digital media presentation for Farming and Ranching on the Last Frontier Session West Texas Historical Association 8lfh Annual Meeting Lubbock Texas

Ethnic Photography and the Cultural Geography of African-Americans in Texas April 16 2010 digital media presentation Panel One for Third Annual African American Studies SympOsium Denman Room University Center UT-San Antonio

A Field Guide to West Texas Postal History 1850s-1890s March 31 2007 Session paper and CDshyROM illustrated presentation delivered to West Texas History AssOCiation 84th Annual Meeting Abilene Texas

Commentary - Business in the Borderlands (Session 48) March 10 2007 Texas State Historical Association 111 th Annual Meeting San AntoniO Texas

E-History or Googling West Texas A Visual Case Study in Web-based Research April 3 2004 West Texas Historical Association Session Six Abilene Texas (CD-ROM presentation and written remarks)

First Arrivals The Caprock Springs of the Eastern Llano Estacado March 18 2004 Association of American Geographers -1OOth Annual Meeting Session 5450 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The Real Photo Artists of West Texas 1907-1920 April 11 2003 West Texas Historical Association 80th Annual Meeting Session Four Lubbock Texas

9

Texas Visual Historiography The Regional Real Photo Artists 1906-1919 October 10 2000 Coshyorganized session with Dr Ty Cashion of The Visual Texas Western History Association 40th Annual Conference San Antonio Texas

Shadow Catchers of the Texas Panhandle March 6 1998 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting Austin Texas Organized Session 21 Studies in Texas Photo-history

Landscape Artists of the Southern High Plains Romance to Realism March 28 1998 Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting Boston Massachusetts

Plains of Light Landscape Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains April 4 1997 Session chair and presentation for Historical Geography -- Frontiers Boundary Disputes and Visualization Association of American Geographers 93rd Annual Meeting Fort Worth Texas

Whither Goest Thou Coronado- Rediscovery of the Coronado Expedition in Texas April 13 1996 Paper presentation at Session Historical Aspects of the American West 92nd Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers Charlotte North Carolina

C NONmiddotREFEREED PRESENTATIONS

The Romance of Tom Green County April 142012 Texas Philatelic Association Convention invited digital media presentation for the Texas Postal History Society San Antonio Texas

Home Home on the Llano August 12 2011 Invited digital media presentation for the 1 OOth Anniversary or Centennial Meeting of the Pathfinders Club Burton Memorial Library Clarendon Texas (Donley County)

The First Hundred Years The Lost Photographers of Austin and Central Texas April 1 0 2011 Invited digital media presentation Austin History Association Austin History Center Austin Texas

Silver Falls and Blanco Canyon June 22 2004 Invited public presentation to dedicate the Silver Falls Rest Area a $27 million public improvement project in Blanco Canyon by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) Crosby County Texas

Old Margaret and the Texas Rangers The Miller Diaries of Company B Invited regional symposium May 3-4 2002 Quanah Parker Days Celebration Crowell Texas Foard County

The Real Texas Rangers Invited seminar presentation January 14 2002 Through Their Eyes Student Seminar Education Service Center Region XV San Angelo Texas (Fellow authors were noted writer Elmer Kelton and Dr Andres Tijerina)

Ten Reconceptions of the Famed Texas Rangers June 17 2000 Invited presentation for Lone Stars 177 Years of Ranger History Mike Cox moderator Western Writers ofAmerica Convention YO Ranch Hotel and Resort Kerrville Texas

Russian Cities and Social Change Morning session held June 16 1999 Invited three-hour graduate seminar and training workshop for Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) Summer Institute in Russian Studies for K-12 Teachers

10

Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

11

The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

12

B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

13

Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

14

Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

15

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Lo Llano Europeans on the High Plains of 1541 March 1 1998 Invited presentation for The Transition from Prehistory to History in the Southwest Mogollon Conference (February 28-March1 1998) Albuquerque New Mexico

Springlands and Settlements Mexicos Ojos de Aguas April 15 1989 Invited paper delivered at University of Texas Institute of Latin American Studies First Annual Symposium Cultural Adaptation at the Edge of the Spanish Empire A Northern View Sid Richardson Hall Austin Texas

The Coronado Expedition in Texas It November 24 1993 Invited presentation Division of Education and Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San AntoniO San Antonio Texas

Navajo Agriculture and the Dinetah Frontier April 20 1992 Invited presentation Division of Social and Policy Sciences University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio Texas

Mysteries of the Llano Estacado December 13 1988 Invited presentation Department of Geography University of Texas at Austin Colloquium Series Austin Texas

The Iron Horse on the High Plains Guidebooks and Environmental Imagery 1872-1892 May 1 1990 Paper and invited presentation delivered at New Mexico State University Department of Earth Sciences Las Cruces New Mexico

B REFEREED PRESENTATIONS

Commentary - Postcards as Documentary Evidence on the Texas Past (Session 5) March 1 2012 Texas State Historical ASSOCiation 116111 Annual Meeting Houston Texas

Homesteading the Western Llano Estacado April 1 2011 digital media presentation for Farming and Ranching on the Last Frontier Session West Texas Historical Association 8lfh Annual Meeting Lubbock Texas

Ethnic Photography and the Cultural Geography of African-Americans in Texas April 16 2010 digital media presentation Panel One for Third Annual African American Studies SympOsium Denman Room University Center UT-San Antonio

A Field Guide to West Texas Postal History 1850s-1890s March 31 2007 Session paper and CDshyROM illustrated presentation delivered to West Texas History AssOCiation 84th Annual Meeting Abilene Texas

Commentary - Business in the Borderlands (Session 48) March 10 2007 Texas State Historical Association 111 th Annual Meeting San AntoniO Texas

E-History or Googling West Texas A Visual Case Study in Web-based Research April 3 2004 West Texas Historical Association Session Six Abilene Texas (CD-ROM presentation and written remarks)

First Arrivals The Caprock Springs of the Eastern Llano Estacado March 18 2004 Association of American Geographers -1OOth Annual Meeting Session 5450 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

The Real Photo Artists of West Texas 1907-1920 April 11 2003 West Texas Historical Association 80th Annual Meeting Session Four Lubbock Texas

9

Texas Visual Historiography The Regional Real Photo Artists 1906-1919 October 10 2000 Coshyorganized session with Dr Ty Cashion of The Visual Texas Western History Association 40th Annual Conference San Antonio Texas

Shadow Catchers of the Texas Panhandle March 6 1998 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting Austin Texas Organized Session 21 Studies in Texas Photo-history

Landscape Artists of the Southern High Plains Romance to Realism March 28 1998 Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting Boston Massachusetts

Plains of Light Landscape Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains April 4 1997 Session chair and presentation for Historical Geography -- Frontiers Boundary Disputes and Visualization Association of American Geographers 93rd Annual Meeting Fort Worth Texas

Whither Goest Thou Coronado- Rediscovery of the Coronado Expedition in Texas April 13 1996 Paper presentation at Session Historical Aspects of the American West 92nd Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers Charlotte North Carolina

C NONmiddotREFEREED PRESENTATIONS

The Romance of Tom Green County April 142012 Texas Philatelic Association Convention invited digital media presentation for the Texas Postal History Society San Antonio Texas

Home Home on the Llano August 12 2011 Invited digital media presentation for the 1 OOth Anniversary or Centennial Meeting of the Pathfinders Club Burton Memorial Library Clarendon Texas (Donley County)

The First Hundred Years The Lost Photographers of Austin and Central Texas April 1 0 2011 Invited digital media presentation Austin History Association Austin History Center Austin Texas

Silver Falls and Blanco Canyon June 22 2004 Invited public presentation to dedicate the Silver Falls Rest Area a $27 million public improvement project in Blanco Canyon by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) Crosby County Texas

Old Margaret and the Texas Rangers The Miller Diaries of Company B Invited regional symposium May 3-4 2002 Quanah Parker Days Celebration Crowell Texas Foard County

The Real Texas Rangers Invited seminar presentation January 14 2002 Through Their Eyes Student Seminar Education Service Center Region XV San Angelo Texas (Fellow authors were noted writer Elmer Kelton and Dr Andres Tijerina)

Ten Reconceptions of the Famed Texas Rangers June 17 2000 Invited presentation for Lone Stars 177 Years of Ranger History Mike Cox moderator Western Writers ofAmerica Convention YO Ranch Hotel and Resort Kerrville Texas

Russian Cities and Social Change Morning session held June 16 1999 Invited three-hour graduate seminar and training workshop for Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) Summer Institute in Russian Studies for K-12 Teachers

10

Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

11

The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

12

B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

13

Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

14

Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

15

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Texas Visual Historiography The Regional Real Photo Artists 1906-1919 October 10 2000 Coshyorganized session with Dr Ty Cashion of The Visual Texas Western History Association 40th Annual Conference San Antonio Texas

Shadow Catchers of the Texas Panhandle March 6 1998 Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting Austin Texas Organized Session 21 Studies in Texas Photo-history

Landscape Artists of the Southern High Plains Romance to Realism March 28 1998 Association of American Geographers 94th Annual Meeting Boston Massachusetts

Plains of Light Landscape Photographers of the Texas Panhandle-South Plains April 4 1997 Session chair and presentation for Historical Geography -- Frontiers Boundary Disputes and Visualization Association of American Geographers 93rd Annual Meeting Fort Worth Texas

Whither Goest Thou Coronado- Rediscovery of the Coronado Expedition in Texas April 13 1996 Paper presentation at Session Historical Aspects of the American West 92nd Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers Charlotte North Carolina

C NONmiddotREFEREED PRESENTATIONS

The Romance of Tom Green County April 142012 Texas Philatelic Association Convention invited digital media presentation for the Texas Postal History Society San Antonio Texas

Home Home on the Llano August 12 2011 Invited digital media presentation for the 1 OOth Anniversary or Centennial Meeting of the Pathfinders Club Burton Memorial Library Clarendon Texas (Donley County)

The First Hundred Years The Lost Photographers of Austin and Central Texas April 1 0 2011 Invited digital media presentation Austin History Association Austin History Center Austin Texas

Silver Falls and Blanco Canyon June 22 2004 Invited public presentation to dedicate the Silver Falls Rest Area a $27 million public improvement project in Blanco Canyon by the Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) Crosby County Texas

Old Margaret and the Texas Rangers The Miller Diaries of Company B Invited regional symposium May 3-4 2002 Quanah Parker Days Celebration Crowell Texas Foard County

The Real Texas Rangers Invited seminar presentation January 14 2002 Through Their Eyes Student Seminar Education Service Center Region XV San Angelo Texas (Fellow authors were noted writer Elmer Kelton and Dr Andres Tijerina)

Ten Reconceptions of the Famed Texas Rangers June 17 2000 Invited presentation for Lone Stars 177 Years of Ranger History Mike Cox moderator Western Writers ofAmerica Convention YO Ranch Hotel and Resort Kerrville Texas

Russian Cities and Social Change Morning session held June 16 1999 Invited three-hour graduate seminar and training workshop for Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) Summer Institute in Russian Studies for K-12 Teachers

10

Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

11

The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

12

B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

13

Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

14

Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

15

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Landscape Photography in the Colonization of the Texas Panhandle November 21 1997 Invited presentation to the University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography Colloquium Series Austin Texas

World War III Russian Retribalization and Post-Soviet Geography January 8 1996 9AM-12PM session Fort Hood Lecture Series sponsored by Center for Post-Soviet and East European Studies for the United States Army Fort Hood Texas

The Odyssey of Post-Soviet Geography 1996 through 2000 Invited annual presentations to graduate seminar SES 381 Introduction to Post-Soviet and East European Studies University of Texas at Austin Austin Texas

IV TEACHING ACTIVITIES

A PRINCIPAL COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR FOR COURSES

World Regional Geography GRG 1023 UTSA Dept of Political Science amp Geography Fall 1991-present

Cultural Geography GRG 3213 UTSA 1991 2002-present Weather and Climate GRG 3713 UTSA upper-division 1992-present Geography of Europe GRG 3133 UTSA upper-division 1995-present Planning Theory and Practices [Graduate Course] CRP 980-X Graduate School of Architecture UTshy

Austin Intro to Urban Planning for new graduate students Fall 2004 Society and Social Issues IDS 2113 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies Degree

Spring 1992- Spring 2001 Individual Family and Community IDS 2103 UTSA College of Education Interdisciplinary Studies

Degree Fall 1992-May 2002 Twentieth-Century Russian History HIS 385 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma Washington 1999 World Civilization to 15th Century IDS 2203 UTSA 1999 Conservation and Resources GRG 3613 UTSA upper division Spring 1993 Geography of the Former Soviet Union GRG 327 University of Texas at Austin Center for

Russian East European amp Eurasian Studies Spring 1993 This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Department of

Geography Spring 1993 Cartography GRG 3513 UTSA upper-division Fall 1992-95 Geography of US and Canada GRG 3113 UTSA upper-division Spring 1992-Spring 1993 Human Geography GY 215 Auburn University upper-division Fall 1990 World Geography GY 102 Auburn University Fall 1990

B TEACHING ASSISTANT FOR UNDERGRADUATE COURSES IN

This Human World An Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas Spring 1988-Spring 1990 six semesters with Dr Paul English (1) and Dr Robin Doughty (5 semesters)

Introduction to Landforms GRG 301 L University of Texas 1989 with Dr Franciso Perez Geography of Latin America GRG 319 University of Texas Summer 1990 with Dr Greg Knapp Problems in Petroleum Engineering PEN 379 University of Texas Spring 1984 -- Spring 1985 three

semesters with Dr Podio

C DISTANCE LEARNING amp INSTRUCTION

1 Principal Extension Instructor for Undergraduate Courses in

11

The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

12

B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

13

Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

14

Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

15

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The Introduction to Physical Geography GRC 301C University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

This Human World Introduction to Geography GRG 305 University of Texas at Austin Division of Continuing EducationEIMC Fall 1988 -- Winter 1990

2 Additional InstructionHuman Relations Taught nine semesters of Texas Union Informal Classes UT-Austin Student Union Substitute Teacher Round Rock ISD Williamson County Texas Organized and led a Winter Tour to the former Soviet Union for Academic Travel Abroad New York City Wrote and produced Public Service Announcements for KLBJ and other radio stations UTSA and LIT-Austin Dept of Geography Liaison Summer Program at Oxford University (1995-2002)

D MASTERS THESIS STUDENT ADVISING Ms Yumiko Kawa Department of Political Science amp Geography Member of MA Thesis Committee Dr

Francisco Durand chair (2009) Ms Madison Partida chair of her Special Honors Thesis Honors College UTSA (2009-10) Faculty Advisor IDS Student Association (1998-2001) Faculty Lecturer The Green Society RSO UTSA (2008)

V SELECTED TEACHING CURRICULUM AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES

A EDUCATION amp HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

1 College amp University Service

Stage Representative Spring 2012 UTSA Commencement and graduation service University Marshall Fall 2010 UTSA Commencement and graduation service EDU College Structure Task Force - (Spring 2000Chair Dr Cardenas) College Restructuring Committee -(Spring 2001Chair Dr Shoho) EXCET Coordinator - (Annually from 2001-2004) - Reviewed data and Social Studies pass rates

especially for IDS students seeking certification in 2003 researched and itemized social science competencies and standards in IDS courses for secondary level (grades 8-12)

University Standing Committee on Core Curriculum - (served two-year term from 1998-99Chair Dr Gillian Cook)

University Standing Committee on Teacher Education - (Fall 1999-Spring 2000) University Standing Committee on Probation amp Reinstatement - (Fall 2002-Fall 2003) Plagiarism Delegate to University Committee on Plagiarism - (Fall 200S-Spring 2006 Fall 2006-Spring

2007)

2 Department Service

Geography Search Committees UTSA - chaired four tenure-track search committees Faculty Secretary Dept of Political Science amp Geography (2009-12) PSG Non Tenure-Track Evaluation Committee (2011 ) chair evaluations of adjunct teaching IDS Modes of Inquiry Classes - EDU (Fall 2000-Spring 2001) Administrative and oversight duties under

Dr Art Hernandez for all IDS sections of Modes of Inquiry Recruited Alycia Maurer UTSA Geography Society - (1999-2009) Two decades of active promotion of this Registered Student

Organization Delivered presentation Geography Photography Society Texas at the Turn 1900shy1920 at September 282000 meeting

IDS Program - (1999-2001) - Operated on various levels and capacities to serve the IDS program during university and college restructuring (1999-2001)

12

B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

13

Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

14

Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

15

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B PROFESSIONAL SERVICE ACTIVITIES

1 PEER REVIEWSCHOLARLY ASSISTANCE

11 Book Manuscript ReviewsScholarly Presses Reader Report for Steven Schroeder Book Manuscript The Eyes of Texas An Essay in Politics Place

and Perception - Texas Tech University (Not Published) Reader Report for F Todd Smith Book Manuscript From Dominance to Disappearance The Indians of

Texas and the Near Southwest 1786-1859 - University of Nebraska (Book published in 2003) Reader Report for Jim Kimmel Book Manuscript The San Marcos A Rivers Story - Texas AampM

University (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for Carol Dawson and Carol Johnston Book Manuscript House of Plenty The Rise Fall

and Revival of Lubys Cafeterias - University of Texas (Book published in 2005) Reader Report for David Buisseret et a Book Manuscript Historic Texas from the Air - University of

Texas Press (Book published in 2009) Reader Report for Carson amp Glasrud et aI Book Manuscript The Giant Side of Texas - Texas Tech

University Press (2010) Reader Report for Peter Rose Book Manuscript The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of

the Llano Texas Tech University Press (2010) Reader Report for Lawrence T Jones III Book Manuscript Ute on the Frontier Early Texas

Photography 1843-1900 Texas AampM University Press Reader Report for Dr Daniel Arreola Book Manuscript Picturing the Place Placing the Picture

University of Texas Press (2012)

12 Article Manuscript Reviews Peer Review Reader Report for Dr Daniel J Gelo article submission Comanche Country and Ever

Has Been A Native Geography of the Nineteenth Century Comancheria in Southwestern Historical Quarterly 103273-308 (2000)

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Perhaps the Most Incorrect Land LineshySouthwestern Historical Quarterly (Published 2000)

Peer Review I Reader Report for liThe Irrigated Valley A Case Study of Conservation in Northwest Texas 1880-1930 currently in press with Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Peer Review Reader Report for manuscript article Boots on the Ground A History of Fort Bascom in the Canadian River Valley (2010 for journal New Mexico Historica Review)

13 Book EndorsementsPublished Jim Kimmel The San Marcos A Rivers Story (TAMU Press 2006) back cover Richard Francaviglia The Cast-Iron Forest A Natural and CulturalHistory of the North American Cross

Timbers (University of Texas Press 2001) back cover David Buisseret Richard Francaviglia Gerald Saxon and Jack Graves Jr Historic Texas from the Air

(University of Texas Press 2009) inside dust jacket Norman F Porter Sr Atascosa County History through 1912 (Galvan Creek published 2007) back

cover Peter Rose The Reckoning Order and Law Come to the Forks of the Llano Texas Tech University

Press (2010) Daniel Arreola Piefuring the Place Placing the Picture University of Texas Press (2012)

14 Loans of Historic Photographs for PublicationOther Authors Photo Loan to Ana Castillo Crimm and Sarah Massey for Turn-of-the-Century Photographs from San

Diego Texas (University of Texas Press) Photo Loan to Dr T Lindsay Baker More Ghost Towns of Texas (University of Oklahoma Press)

13

Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

14

Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

15

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Photo Loan and explanatory text to Southwestern Historical Quarterly for Tomb of Stephen F Austin Vol CIX No1 (July 2005) 134-35

Photo Loan to Dr Ty Cashion Pigskin Pulpit A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches (Texas State Historical Association Press 2006)

2 Offices I Elections Associations Election to Vice-President Texas Institute of Letters (2008-09) Election to Council (equivalent to Board of Directors) Texas Institute of Letters (2004-06 2008-10) Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (2008-2009 term) Election to Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2009-10 2011shy12) Charter Member and Election to Board of Directors Texas Map Society (1998-2000 term)

3 Major PanelsPublic Service Presentations

2002 Texas Book Festival I Featured Moderator panelist The Texas Rangers Justice in the Lone Star State Saturday November 16 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

2001 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist Fact-Finding Missions Authors on Research Sunday November 18 2001 State Capitol Austin Texas

1998 Texas Book Festival I Featured Author and panelist for Raiders of the Lost Archives Saturday November 14 1998 State Capitol Austin Texas Laura Bush Chairman and hostess

4 Conference Program Committees

2012 Program Committee Chair Texas State Historical Association 2010 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2009-10 Program Committees Chair Texas Map Society 2005 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association 2000 Program Committee Member Texas State Historical Association

5 OrganizerA~demic Conference Conference chair and principal organizer for Mapping the New World Spanish Colonial Cartography amp Map-Makers April 3-5 2009 co-sponsored by the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Texas Map Society

6 Press ReleaseslAssistance Press Release photographs and interviews to Chris Anderson reporter for two articles Expert

disputes origins of the word Texas and New Lead on Coronado Expedition San Antonio ExpressshyNews April 301996 page 1A and 6A The front page article was picked up and published further by the New York Times and their wire service and websites

Press Release and interview to Vivian Salazar Features Editor for Plains of Light Amarillo GlobeshyNews October 22 1996

Press Release to Donna Brockman for Photos of Early Hereford Hereford Brand September 17 1996 page 1

UTSA Press Release to Association of American Geographers for Landscape Photographers of Texas Panhandle-South Plains Fort Worth Annual Meeting April 3 1997

History is everywhere in Texas Riding Line Spring 2001 page 9 Wrote full-page profile and essay on history for newsletter of the Texas State Historical Association Austin Texas

14

Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

15

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Sombrilla Vo15 No2 (Winter 1999) Provided UTSA alumnus magazine with interview color negatives rare prints and all illustrations for their (award-winning) article The Language of Discovery concerning my research in the historical geography of Texas

7 Interviews Interview to Vincent Davis and loans of historic photos for COLFA magazine article Snapshots of Texas

in Ovations Volume 5 (November 2010) Interview to Kent Biffle Texana editor A Private in the Texas Rangers Dallas Morning News

November 2001 Interview to Rebecca Luther for Door Culture Sombrilla Vo16 No4 Winter 2001 Interview to Mary Lenz for Golden-Cheeked songbird Houston Post July 16 1990 (p A-12) Interview to Kelly Faro for History Repeats Itself Third Coast Magazine Vol 5 No5 December 1985 Interview to David Oliphant for Nueces chapter of Austin (Fort Worth Prickly Pear Press 1985)

8 Additional Public Service Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 23 (2006-08 2008shy

10 2011-12) Board of Directors Vice-President Long Canyon Homeowners Association Phase 2 (1992-94 1994-96)

9 Consulting Services Expert Reviewer STARR Exam Educational Testing Service Inc reviewed all geography questions

for new statewide high school exam in academic readiness (2011-12)

15