EDUCATION

University of Oklahoma, B.A. 1963; University of Texas at Austin (Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, Cambridge University, 1970-71), Phd., 1972

PUBLICATIONS

Into the Heart of the Fire : The British in the Spanish Civil War—A Study of Ideas, Politics, and Class in the Thirties (Stanford, 1998; paperback, 2000)

EMPLOYMENT

University Distinguished Teaching Professor (2001-)

Professor, Department of History, Southern Methodist University (1997-)

Teaches modern British history, the social and intellectual history of Europe, modern European history, women in European history, atomic energy and the modern world.

Associate Dean for General Education (1990-1993)

Directed, monitored and evaluated four-year liberal arts curriculum taken by all undergraduates. Developed curriculum, recruited faculty and set policy for First-Year Writing Program, Fundamentals Mathematics, team-taught interdisciplinary CORE courses. Developed First-Year Seminars, which grew from four to fifty-five in the three years of my tenure (focusing on such issues as ecology, ethics, Vietnam, the Sixities, the Good Society)

Implemented and directed four-year Honors Program for 200 undergraduates; responsible for identification, selection, and recruitment of honors students.

Supervised Honors student advising and extra-curricular programming in cooperation with the Advising Center and the Vice President for Student Affairs.

Conceived and implemented a community outreach program called the Inner-City Experience Program in which students take an urban studies class in East Dallas and tutor neighborhood children. Some students live in a house that was built by SMU faculty, students, and staff in cooperation with Habitat for Humanity. The program has received extensive coverage in The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and on both local and national television. National awards have come from CASE and Habitat for Humanity.

Associate Professor (1980-1997)

Assistant Professor, Department of History (1974-1980), Director of Undergraduate Studies for six years.

Associate Director, Dean of Students, and Associate Professor of History, London Study Center, Schiller College (1972-74)

Responsible for curricular planning, student advising, chairing a history department that carried out instruction in four European countries, and institutional development.

Captain, Medical Service Corps, U.S. Army (1964-1967)

University Distinguished Teaching Professor (2001-)

HOPE Professor (1999-2000; 2000-2001, 2001-2002)

Cary Maguire Center Public Scholar (1996-1997)

SMU Nominee for the Carnegie Foundation Teacher of the Year Award (1995)

SMU Rotunda Outstanding Professor Award (1977-78, 1980-81, 1984-85, 1987-88)

General Education Excellence in Teaching Award (1986-87)

Phi Beta Kappa Laurence Perrine Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship (1983-84)

The “M” Award for “outstanding service to the University” (1984-1985)

The New York International Film and TV Festival-First Prize for writing and narrating “The University and the Fate of the Earth.” A film examining the responsibility of universities to teach courses on atomic energy (1982)

CASE National Silver Medal Award for the SMU Inner Community Experience Program, recognized as one of the five outstanding university outreach programs in the U.S. (1992-1993)

Faculty Volunteer of the Year Award “for exemplary leadership in the Greater Dallas Community.” Award was for work with Central American refugees and the SMU Law School political asylum clinic (1992-93)

Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award (November 1998)

Mortar Board Faculty Award for “outstanding commitment to the students of SMU” (1998-99, 2000-2001))

Faculty Member of the Month (March 1996, Nov 1999) in acknowledgment of outstanding contributions to the students of SMU

Three year term (2001-2003), Morris D. Forkosch Prize Committee of the American Historical Association honoring annually the best book in the fields of British, British Imperial, and British Commonwealth history since 1485

Fulbright National Screening Committee (1999-)

Florida State University Institute for Student Values, “The University and the Community in the 21st Century: The SMU Inner-City Experience Program” (February 1994)

NEH Conference, University of Texas at San Antonio, “The Challenge of General Education,”
(August 1992)

Texas Conference on Higher Education, “The CORE Curriculum and American Higher Education: the SMU Experience” (July 1991)

University of Toronto Spanish Civil War Symposium, “British Workers, Intellectuals, and the Spanish Civil War” (February 1989)

American Historical Association Conference on the Teaching of History, The University of North Texas, “The Political Impact of Liberation Theology on the Central American Poor: El Salvador and Nicaragua”
(October 1988)

McMaster Association for 18th Century Studues, “William Blake and Revolutionary Europe” (October 1982). In honor of David A. Erdman.

North American Conference on British Studies, Chicago, “Popular Religion and Radical Politics in Great Britain in the 1790s” (October 1972)

Member of Board, Dallas Peace Center (1994-95)

Member of Board, Proyecto Adelante, a non-profit agency providing legal aid to Central American refugees (1984-1991)

Designated an “expert witness” by Immigration and Naturalization Service for testimony on Central American refugee asylum cases (1984-1994)

Frequent speaker on peace and justice issues, nuclear issues, women’s issues, and Central America: