EDUCATION

• Ph.D. University of Texas, El Paso, Borderlands History, December 2022
• M.A. University of Texas, San Antonio, History, December 2009
• B.A. University of Texas, San Antonio, American Studies with minor in History and African American Studies, Magna Cum Laude, Summer 2006
• B.S. Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Biology, December 1998

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Instructorship with Dr. Keith Erekson and the Center for History Teaching and Learning. University of Texas at El Paso.  Hired for Fall 2012.
• Assistant Instructorship with Dr. Charles Martin teaching Texas History. Department of History. University of Texas at El Paso.  Fall 2011.
• Reader/Grader, Department of History and Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Texas at San Antonio, January 2005-2006.
• Supplemental Instructor, Tomas Rivera Center, University of Texas at San Antonio, Spring 2005
• District Manager, Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Texas, May 2002-September 2003.
• Pharmaceutical Sales Representative, Schering-Plough Pharmaceuticals, New Jersey, January 2002-May 2002
• Distributor Relations Representative, Bayer Diagnostics, New Jersey, June 1999-January 2002  
  

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

El Paso Community College

• Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Fall 2010—Spring 2011.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Borderlands.
• U.S. History and French Empire
• Historical Studies of Race, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity.
  

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Graduate Advisory Committee Scholarship. University of Texas at San Antonio.  Department of History, January 2009.

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

•  “Peculiarly Their Own:  A Challenge to a Historical Text,” 48^th Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association of Texas.  San Antonio; November 2004.
• “The Lee Street Riot: Memory, Commemoration, and Myth of the “Good War,” 1942-2000, Phi Alpha Theta UTEP-NMSU Joint Conference. El Paso, March 2012.

PUBLICATIONS

•     Review of War on the Gulf Coast: the Spanish fight against William Augustus Bowles by Gilbert C. Din.  H-Net.  Forthcoming July 2012.

ORGANIZATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• American Studies Association (ASA), 2004-present.
• Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honor Society, 2004-present.
• Mortar Board National Scholastic Honor Society, 2005-present.
• Alpha Chi National Honor Society, 2005-present.
• Phi Alpha Theta, 2006- present
• American Historical Association (AHA), 2006-present
• Southern Historical Association, 2007-present.
• Louisiana Historical Association, 2007-present.
• Organization of American Historians, 2007-present.
  

LANGUAGES

• English