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This fall marks the beginning of my twenty-fifth year of full-time teaching at San Antonio College. My academic work was completed at:

B. A.~ Pan American College (today University of Texas at Pan American), Edinburg
M. A.~ Texas Tech University, Lubbock
30+ post-graduate hours ~ University of Texas, Austin

I currently teach American History 1301 and 1302 (online) and both a traditional and an online course in Texas History.  I absolutely love teaching Texas History and researching local and Spanish Borderlands history. My favorite time period in American History 1301 is the 1830s - 1850s. That encompasses Andrew Jackson, The Trail of Tears and the tumultous decade before the Civil War. In 1302 my favorite era is the Progressive reform period.

In the spring of 2009 I will be teaching HUMA 2319 ("American Minorities") online. In the fall of 2009, I will teach the course both online and on campus.

As a result of my love of history and reading, I have developed a love for travel.  If only there was enough time and money!  I jumped at the opportunity to travel to Russia in May of 1999 and made my second trip (Moscow, Vologda, and St. Petersburg) in January  2001, fifteen days in a beautiful "winter wonderland."  I have also traveled to Mexico, Canada and Costa Rica. My last trip to Mexico was a 20-day stay in Cuernavaca, Taxco, Puebla and Mexico City (summer 2003).  I attended a seminar sponsored by the New Jersey Project and Augsburg College on "Crossing Borders:  Multicultural Curriculum Transformation in Global Perspective."  I have incorporated many aspects of Mexico's present social, economic and political life along with its rich history. See My Photo Albums linked below.

I participated in the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program, studying and traveling in Morocco for six weeks in the summer of 2004 .  It was a marvelous experience.  We visited (and, of course, shopped) boisterous  marketplaces in Rabat, Fez, Meknes, Marrakesh and Casablanca.  We experienced indigenous small towns like Azrou, known for its Berber crafts, as well as the "Hollywood" of Morocco, Ouarzazate, where "Romancing the Stone" and "Gladiator" were filmed. See My Photo Albums linked below.

We crossed the Middle Atlas and High Atlas Mountains.  We ate a communal meal of couscous with educational leaders in the small rural community of Rich where we were treated to an elaborate ceremony of publicly washing our hands in preparation for the communal meal. We saw magnificent Roman ruins at Volubilis and spent a most miserable night at Tezzarine where a fabulous hotel spread out before us but the air conditioning units just could not cope with the desert heat.  Astonishing views awaited us at Telouet, a deserted former palace of the Glaoui dynasty accessible only in four-wheel drive vehicles, and Ait Benhaddou, a UNESCO World Heritage site, where we visited a restored Berber kasbah (fort) that today provides housing for eight families.  These were just a few of my experiences in the beautiful land known as Morocco, Maroc, Marrakesh and El Maghrib.  [ Fulbright-Hays participant projects ]

In the summer of 2005 I participated in two National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) "Landmarks in American History" workshops. The first was "Currents: The Columbia River Gorge" at Portland State University and "Remember the Alamo: An American Landmark" held at the Alamo in San Antonio.

Almost as incredible an experience as six weeks in Morocco was summer of 2006 participation in "Maya World: on-site in Chiapas, Guatemala, Honduras and Belize," an NEH Summer Institute program for community college, four-year college and university faculty. Fifteen distinguished scholars from the U. S., Mexico, Guatemala and Canada, along with local speakers, presented their field work, papers and publications on their respective fields as researchers. We visited current archaeological excavations, experienced contemporary Maya communities, studied textile production, Maya storytelling and the politics of the Maya region. See My Photo Albums linked below. I am working on others, including a personal vacation to Argentina!

I have been selected for a second "Fulbright experience" in Greece and Bulgaria this summer (2008). I am excited and know it will be as educational an experience as Morocco was. My photos will be up soon.

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Morocco

Maya World

Russia

Mexico

Argentina

Greece and Bulgaria

Last updated July 2008

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