Faculty News
Summer, 2012: Drs. Arnoldo DeLeón and John Klingemann are featured in the summer issue of the Angelo State University Magazine. Read Dr. DeLeón’s story here and Dr. Klingemann’s story here.
May 1, 2012: Dr. Jason Pierce spoke at the San Angelo Genealogical and Historical Society on “The Significance of Tuberculosis on Settlement in Texas and the American West.” (Image courtesy of Caleb Allen.)
April 24, 2012: Dr. Arnoldo DeLeón’s new book War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities has been honored with the Luciano Guajardo Award by the Webb County Heritage Foundation in Laredo. The award is being presented “in recognition of efforts to promote awareness of the history, architecture, or folklore of the region.”
April 17, 2012: Drs. John Klingemann and Robert Nalbandov (Dept. of Security Studies) spoke about civil wars around the world. Dr. Klingemann discussed the Mexican Revolution and Dr. Nalbandov lectured about the situation in the the country of Georgia.
April, 2012: Dr. Ken Heineman discussed the sinking of the Titanic in an article posted on the front page of the Angelo State University website.
April 5, 2012: Dr. Jason Pierce was quoted in an article about the historic O.C. Fisher Federal Building in the Standard Times.
March 20, 2012: Dr. Ken Heineman and Cory Robinson spoke to a crowd of 100 at Fort Concho. Mr. Robinson (above), a former Angelo State history graduate student and historical interpreter at Fort Concho, spoke about Benjamin Grierson’s role in the Vicksburg Campaign of 1863 and Dr. Heineman discussed William T. Sherman.
February 12, 2012: Drs. David Dewar and Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai lectured on the rise of the Republican Party and the abolitionist movement as part of the department’s commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. Despite the weather, there was good turnout at Fort Concho on Abraham Lincoln’s 203rd birthday. Read the Ram Page article about the event here.
January, 2012
Curtis Milbourn, who received his master’s degree in history from Angelo State and is currently an adjunct professor, has been awarded the Lawrence T. Jones III Research Fellowship from the Texas Historical Association. Prof. Milbourn will continue to conduct research on Texas in the Civil War era.
January 24, 2012:
As part of the Civil War lecture series to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the conflict, Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai joined Dr. William Taylor (Dept. of Security Studies) and Mr. Preston Lewis (Director of Communications/Marketing) in discussing the Battle of Gettysburg and its significance. Over 200 people attended the event in the C. J. Davidson Center ballroom. Read the Ram Page article about the event here.
(Photograph by Pam Belcher, Ram Page.)
January, 2012:
Dr. Jason Pierce and students from his public history class were featured in the Spring 2012 issue of the Angelo State University Magazine. Their efforts in researching the history of the O.C. Fisher Federal Building in downtown San Angelo led to the creation of a brochure and website. Dr. Pierce and his students were also invited to the commemoration ceremony for the building this past fall. A historical marker for the building was unveiled at the event.
January, 2012:
Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai’s essay “‘What is a Person Worthy at Such a Time’: New England College Students, Sectionalism, and Secession” was published in Children and Youth During the Civil War Era (NYU Press) edited by historian James Marten.
December, 2011:
Dr. Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai’s essay “Leadership Class: College-Educated New Englanders in the Civil War” was published in the Massachusetts Historical Review.
December, 2011:
Dr. David Dewar is one of three local judges for the quarterly Rooster’s Quill Fiction Contest sponsored by the San Angelo Standard-Times. The contest is intended to encourage, as the Standard-Times editors suggest, “great writing and story telling.” Four times a year, judges read, analyze, and criticize the works of local authors. The entries are judged according to the following criteria: 40% creativity, 15% grammar, 15% plot development, and 30% literary quality. The judges forward their rankings to the Standard-Times. Then, the Rooster’s Quill editor tallies the rankings and a winner is declared along with second and third prizes and honorable mentions, if applicable. Entries are solicited two categories—one from authors 12-17 and another from authors 18 and older. Winners’ works are subsequently published in a Sunday edition of the Standard-Times.
December 1, 2011:
Angela Howell (center) participated in the university’s AIDS Awareness Day.
November 2011:
Dr. Ken Heineman’s article “David L. Lawrence of Pittsburgh” was published in the November 2011 of Pennsylvania Legacies.
November 30, 2011:
Dr. Arnoldo DeLeón’s edited volume, War along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities has recently been released from Texas A&M University Press. The collection, which consists of thirteenth essays written by specialists in the field of borderlands history, studies the impact that the Mexican Revolution of 1910 had on Tejano communities. According to the articles, the Revolution affected ethnic identity, demographic expansion, the security of South and West Texas communities, and other aspects of border life. Among contributors to the volume is History Dept. member Dr. John Eusebio Klingemann; his essay is titled “’The Population Is Overwhelmingly Mexican; Most of It Is in Sympathy with the Revolution …’: Mexico’s Revolution of 1910 and the Tejano Community in the Big Bend.”
Dr. John Klingemann was featured in the November 24th issue of Conexión San Angelo. To view the article, please click here.
November 16, 2011:
Dr. Ken Heineman was interviewed by the local paper, the Standard Times about his presentation on guerrilla warfare in Civil War Missouri. Read the article here.
