HELEN McLURE

Willliam P. Clements Department of History

PO Box 750176  Dallas, TX  75275-0176

(214) 768-3684

hmclure@smu.edu


 

EDUCATION

 

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

            Clements Department of History Ph.D. expected August 2008

            Advisor: Dr. Sherry Smith, Professor of History

Dissertation: “‘I Suppose You Think Strange the Murder of Women and Children’: Lynching and Whitecapping in the American West, 1850-1930”

 

            University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas

            M.A. in History, May 2002

Thesis: “‘With the Past Let These Be Buried’: The 1873 Mob Massacre of the Hill Family in Springtown, Texas”

Advisor: Dr. Richard V. Francaviglia, Professor of History

 

University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas

B.A. in History, August 2000

                                   

EXPERIENCE

 

            History 2312, U.S. History from Reconstruction to the Present

            Southern Methodist University  Summer 2006

 

History 2312, U.S. History from Reconstruction to the Present

Southern Methodist University

Co-taught with Dr. Thomas Knock and Alicia Dewey  Spring 2006

 

Graduate Research Assistant, History Department, University of Texas at Arlington

                        September 2001 – May 2002

 

Graduate Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Texas at Arlington,

September 2000 – May 2001

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

"Bad Men, Unsexed Women, and Good Citizens: Outlaws and Vigilantes in the American West,” in The West, edited by Benjamin Johnson (New York: ABC-CLIO Perspectives Social History Series, 2007).

 

“‘With the Past Let These Be Buried’: The 1873 Mob Massacre of the Hill Family in Springtown, Texas.”  Southwestern Historical Quarterly 105 (October 2001): 292-321.

 

“The Wild, Wild Web: The Mythic American West and the Electronic Frontier.”  Western Historical Quarterly 31 (Winter 2000): 457-76.

 

REVIEWS AND PRESENTATIONS

 

Bill Neal, Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials. Book review for Western Historical Quarterly (forthcoming February 2008)

 

"CWWH Roundtable: The Legacy of Irene Ledesma, Writing Gender sin fonteras." Western History Association, St. Louis, Missouri, 2006

 

“Lynching and the Language of Citizenship: ‘Naturalizing’ Rustlers in Texas, 1870-1890,” Western History Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2004

 

“Women and Lynching in Texas, 1860-1930,” Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas, 2003

 

Max Evans, Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver City to Ketchikan. Book review for Western Historical Quarterly (Summer 2003)

 

“‘A Real Unsexed Terror’: Gender and the Lynching Ritual in the American West,” Phi Alpha Theta Southwest Regional, University of Texas at Arlington, 2002

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

Irene Ledesma Prize, Coalition for Western Women’s History, October 2005

 

University Scholar, President’s Convocation for Academic Excellence, University of Texas at Arlington, April 2002

 

George Wolfskill Graduate Student Award, History Department, University of Texas at Arlington, March 2002

 

Western History Association Bert M. Fireman Prize, for the best article by a graduate student published in the Western Historical Quarterly, October 2001

 

Jenkins Garrett Scholarship Award for Outstanding Essay on Greater Southwestern History, History Department, University of Texas at Arlington, March 2000

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

 

Bill Clements Dissertation Fellowship, Clements Center for Southwest Studies

            Southern Methodist University, 2007 - 2008

 

            Ph.D. Fellowship, Clements Department of History

                        Southern Methodist University, 2002 – 2007

 

Dissertation Research and Travel Grant, Clements Department of History

            Southern Methodist University, 2006

 

            Dissertation Research and Travel Grant, Office of Research and Graduate Studies

                        Southern Methodist University, 2006

 

Dissertation Research and Travel Grant, Clements Center for Southwest Studies

                        Southern Methodist University, 2005

           

Dissertation Research and Travel Grant, Clements Department of History

                        Southern Methodist University, 2005

 

            Dissertation Research and Travel Grant, Office of Research and Graduate Studies

                        Southern Methodist University, 2005

 
Last updated April 2008
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