Willliam P. Clements Department of History
PO Box 750176 Dallas, TX 75275-0176
(214) 768-3684
EDUCATION
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
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
"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.
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
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.