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Book Publication: The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas (University of Texas Press, 2010)

	Visiting Professor, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, The University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2010
	Chair, General Education Committee, Del Mar College, 2010 (term extends to 2011)
	Member, Faculty Council, Del Mar College, 2010 (term extends to 2013)
	Presentation: "The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas," University Hillel, University of Texas at Austin, April 2010

Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas Associate Professor, History (2009-present) Assistant Professor, History (2004-2009)	August 2004 - Present
Teach 15 credit hours per semester in U.S. History.  Duties also include academic advising and service on faculty committees. U.S. History to 1865 U.S. History 1865 to the Present   Member, Faculty Council, 2010 (term extends to 2013) Chair, General Education Committee, 2010 (term extends to 2011) History Program Coordinator, 2009-2010 Chair, Core Curriculum Committee, 2009-2010
The University of Texas at Austin	Summer 2009, 2010
Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies
Visiting Professor, Jewish Studies
Taught summer course titled "Texas Jews," an undergraduate seminar listed in the Departments of History, Jewish Studies, American Studies, and Religious Studies.

Dawson Community College, Glendive, Montana           Instructor, History/Humanities	August 1999 - May 2004
Taught 15 credit hours per semester in history, humanities, and Native American studies.

The University of Texas at Austin          Assistant Instructor, Department of American Studies	August 1996 - May 1997 January 1999 - August 1999
Designed and taught "Religion and Society in American Literature," a lower-division writing-component course.

The University of Texas at Austin                  Teaching Assistant, American Studies Program	August 1995 - May 1996
Assisted professor of "Introduction to American Studies."

The University of Texas at Austin                Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Electrical and Computer        Engineering	September 1994 - May 1995
Evaluated written project reports for electrical engineering students studying technical writing.

Travis County Adult Literacy Council, Austin, Texas Volunteer and Instructor Trainer	April 1991 - May 1993
Volunteered as a tutor for adult nonreaders and helped design and lead training workshops for new tutors.

The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas (University of Texas Press, 2010).

	"On the Frontier: Jews Without Judaism," in Lone Stars of David, ed. Hollace Ava Weiner and Kenneth D. Roseman (Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2007): 18-32.
	"Texas," Encyclopaedia Judaica, Second Edition v. 19 (Detroit: Thomson-Gale,  2006): 659-661.

	"Edgar Goldberg and the Texas Jewish Herald: Changing Coverage and Blended Identity," Southern Jewish History 7 (2004): 71-108.
	"Edgar Goldberg and Forty Years of the Texas Jewish Herald," Western States Jewish History 30 (July 1998): 290-314.  Reprinted from "'Texas News for Texas Jews': Edgar Goldberg and the Texas Jewish Herald," The (Houston) Jewish Herald-Voice Rosh Hashanah Edition (September 1995): 6-23.
	"'Ride 'Em, Jewboy': Kinky Friedman and the Texas Mystique," Southern Jewish History 1 (1998): 23-42.
	"'Not to Damn But to Fructify': Ezra Pound and Contempo," The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin 25 (1995): 110-131.
	"A Masque of Mutual Acquiescence: William Faulkner at the University of Virginia," The Walden Review 1 (Spring 1991): 19-21, 41-43.

	Forgotten Gateway: Coming to America Through Galveston Island, 1846-1924. Exhibit, Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin.  Southern Jewish History 12 (2009): 264-267.
	Ralph A. Wooster, Robert Calvert, and Adrian Anderson, eds., Texas Vistas, Third Edition.  Journal of the West 46 (Summer 2007): 97.
	Eliza R.L. McGraw, Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness. Southern Jewish History, 10 (2007): 241-43.
	Marjorie Meyer Arsht, All the Way from Yoakum: The Personal Journey of a Political Insider.  Journal of the West 45 (Fall 2006): 80.
	John Raeburn, A Staggering Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography.  Journal of the West 45 (Fall 2006): 90-91.
	Timothy K. Perttula, ed. The Prehistory Of Texas. Journal of the West 44 (Summer 2005): 101.
	Anne C. Loveland and Otis B. Wheeler, From Meetinghouse to Megachurch: A Material and Cultural History.  Journal of South Texas 18 (Fall 2005): 313-316.
	Stanley E. Ely, In Jewish Texas: A Family Memoir.  Journal of the West 39 (Spring 2000): 81-82.
	Gerald E. Poyo, ed.  Tejano Journey, 1770-1850.  Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas 28 (October 1997): 103-104.

Editorial Board Member, Southern Jewish History, 2003-2007.

	"The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas," Corpus Christi Havurah, Corpus Christi, Texas, July 2010.
	"The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas," Texas Jewish Historical Society Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, April 2010.
	"The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas," University Hillel, University of Texas at Austin, April 2010.
	"Outsiders on the Inside: Dallas Jews and Civil Rights." Southern Jewish Historical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 2009.
	"Cowboys and Indigents: Galveston Movement Recipient Communities in Texas."  Galveston Movement Symposium, Austin, Texas, September 2009.
	Roundtable Moderator, "The Galveston Movement as Immigration Solution: A Centennial Retrospective."  Galveston Movement Symposium, Austin, Texas, September 2009.
	"Conversos" and "Texas Jewish Pioneers."  Congregation Beth Israel, Corpus Christi, Texas, July 2009.
	"Crypto-Jews and Pioneers: History or Heritage?"  Dallas Jewish Historical Society, Dallas, Texas, February 2009.
	"Alexander Ziskind Gurwitz: Yiddish Memoirist and Hebrew Teacher in Frontier Texas," Southern Jewish Historical Society, Washington, D.C., November 2007.
	"Who Was the First Jew in Texas?: Problems Identifying and Understanding Early Texas Jews," Lone Stars of David Book Tour, Houston, Texas, May 2007.
	"Who Was the First Jew in Texas?: Problems Identifying and Understanding Early Texas Jews," Lone Stars of David Book Tour, Corpus Christi, Texas, April 2007.
	"Cowboys and Indigents: A History of Texas-Jewish Fiction," Southern Jewish Historical Society Annual Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, November 2006.
	"Imagined Frontiers: Texas Jews in Recent Works of Fiction," American Studies Association of Texas Annual Conference, Wichita Falls, Texas, November 2005.
	"Conversos and Pioneers: Do They Matter?"  Lone Stars of David: A Texas Jewish History Symposium, Texas Jewish Historical Society, Austin, Texas, April 2005.
	"The Interior Frontiers of Texas Jews," Fellowship Research Presentation, Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 2001.
	"Miles and Miles of Texas: Immigrant Jews and Lone Star Space," Southwestern Social Science Association, Corpus Christi, Texas, March 1998.
	"Jews in Texas?"  American Studies Association of Texas Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 1997.
	"'Ride 'Em, Jewboy': Kinky Friedman and Texas Jewish Toughness," Southern Jewish Historical Society Annual Conference, Hot Springs, Arkansas, November 1997.
	"'The Jewish Civil War': The Texas Jewish Herald and the Crisis of National Leadership," Western Jewish Studies Association Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, April 1996.
	"Texas Jews and the New York Kehillah," American Studies Association of Texas Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, November 1995.
	Panel Chair, "Cormac McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses," American Studies Association of Texas Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, November 1995.
	Program Committee, American Studies Association of Texas Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, November 1995.
	"Langston Hughes and Contempo," American Studies Association of Texas Annual Conference, San Marcos, Texas, November 1994.
	Chair of Organizational Committee, Graduate Symposium in American Studies and American Civilization, Austin, Texas, November 1994.

	Project Completion Grant, Southern Jewish Historical Society, 2008
	Loewenstein-Wiener Research Fellowship, Jacob R. Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, 2000-2001
	University of Texas Bruton Fellowship, 1998
	University of Texas Thematic Fellowship in the Peoples and Cities of the Southwest, 1997
	Phi Beta Kappa, University of Texas at Austin, 1989
	Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, University of Texas at Austin, 1989
	Adele Steiner Burleson English Department Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 1987

U.S. History to 1865/1877 U.S. History 1865/1877 to Present Texas Jews Religion and Society in America The American Civil Rights Movement Intro. to Native American Studies North American Plains Indians

Montana History Intro. to the Humanities I Intro. to the Humanities II Western Civilization to 1600 Western Civilization 1600 to Present World Regional Geography

American Jewish History, especially in Texas, the South, and Southwest U.S. social and cultural history American religion Texas History Ethnicity and race

Native American studies U.S. West, including the histories of Texas and Montana Diasporas/homelands American literature