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The 2010
Emeritus
Professors
Lecture Series
Scholarly History of Americans in War, Disease,
and Disaster
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Speakers:
Dr. Thomas M. Hatfield: Military
History
as High Adventure
Dr. Hatfield is an
American academic, lecturer, writer, and historian. He is a
senior
research
fellow at the Dolph Briscoe Center
for American History at the University of Texas
at Austin and
director of the Center’s Military History Institute. He received
his
B.S at Trinity University,
and his M.A. and PhD. from the University
of Texas at Austin.
He was a
postdoctoral fellow at UCLA.
Hatfield was the founding president of the John Tyler Community
College
in
Richmond, Virginia; an associate commissioner of the Texas
Coordinating
Board
for Higher Education; and the founding president of Austin
Community
College.
He is a former president of the University Professional and
Continuing
Education Association of the USA,
and was a founding faculty member of the Normandy Scholar
Program at
U.T. He is
currently writing the biography of James earl Rudder, war hero
and
president of
Texas
A&M University
to be published in 2011 by Texas A&M University Press.
Dr. Gene G. Preuss:
Disaster and the Urgency of
History
Dr. Preuss is
Associate Professor of History at the University of
Houston-downtown,
where he
serves as the History Program Coordinator and Achieving the Dream
Program Core
Team Leader. He is active in state, regional, and national
professional
history
organizations, and his research focuses on the history of minority
education.
He is currently working on a study of Secretary of Education Lauro
Cavazos and
African-American public schools in Texas.
He has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, and was
co-author of There
is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and
Hurricane
Katrina
published by Routledge in 2006 with Alan H. Stein. His book, To
Get
a Better
School System: On Hundred Years of School Reform in Texas
was
published by
Texas A&M university Press in 2009.
Dr. Mari Nicholson-Preuss:
Infectious Disease in Modern Medicine
Dr. Nicholson-Preuss
is an adjunct professor of history at the University of
Houston-Downtown. She
earned her M.A. and B.A. in History at Texas
Tech University
and a PhD. from the University
of Houston.
Her
fields of
study included the history of medicine, modern social history and
Britain and the
British
Empire. Her dissertation, “Down and Out in Old JD,”
traced
the
evolution of Houston’s
public
hospital and examined the impact of a widely publicized epidemic
in its
nurseries on public attitudes toward indigent health care. She is
the
2010
recipient of the Excellence in West Texas History Postdoctoral
Fellowship
sponsored by Angelo
State University
and the West Texas Historical Association. Dr. Nicholson-Preuss
has
presented
at international and national conferences on a variety of topics
related to her
scholarship ranging from hospitals in hurricanes to antibiotic
resistant nosocomial
infections in the 1950s.
Northridge Lecture Hall (NRG
4136)