Dr. Arnoldo DeLeón

Office: A 210F
Phone: (325) 942-2120
E-Mail: arnoldo.deleon@angelo.edu
Professor of History

Ph. D., Texas Christian University
M.A., Texas Christian University
B.A., Angelo State University

Member of history faculty at ASU since 1973.
Areas of specialization: Mexican American History, The History of Texas, Cold War America, Latin American History.

Courses taught include U.S. history surveys; History 3362 (The Mexican American in American History); History 3301 (Texas History); History 3309 (U.S. in War and Upheaval, 1939-1989).

Scholarship: Lengthy record of publications includes articles, textbooks, and monographs. Significant works are The Tejano Community, 1836-1900 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1982; second printing by Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1997); They Called Them Greasers: Anglo Attitudes Toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821-1900 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983); Ethnicity in the Sunbelt: A History of Mexican Americans in Houston, Texas (Houston: Mexican American Studies Center, 1989; reissued with a new chapter by College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2001); (with Kenneth L. Stewart) Tejanos and the Numbers Game: A Socio-Historical Interpretation From the Federal Censuses, 1850-1900 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989); The History of Texas (authored with Robert A. Calvert and Gregg Cantrell; Arlington Heights: Ill.: Harlan Davidson Inc, 1990, 1996, 2002, 2007); Tejano Epic: Essays in Honor of Félix D. Almaráz Jr. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2005); (with Jorge Iber), Hispanics in the American West (Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006); (with Richard Griswold del Castillo) North To Aztlán: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States (Arlington Heights: Harlan Davidson Inc., 2006); Mexican Americans in Texas: A Brief History (Third edition; Arlington Heights; Harlan Davidson Inc., 2009); (joint author), Hispanics in U.S. Sports (Champaign, Ill.: Human Kinetics, 2011); with Walter L. Buenger, Beyond Texas Through Time: Breaking Away from Past Interpretations (College Station: Texas A&M University Press); and War Along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2011).

Works in Progress: Fifth Edition of The History of Texas (2013); “Basic Tejano Scholarship: The History Component,” in Bruce A. Glasrud et al. (eds.), Writing Texas History: A Guide to the History of the Lone Star State (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2011).

Awards and Honors: Research Fellow in the Mexican American Studies Visiting Scholars Program (University of Houston); Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association; member of the Texas Institute of Letters; Fellow of the West Texas Historical Association; C. J. “Red” Davidson Endowed University Professorship in History at Angelo State University.

Membership in Professional Organizations: Member of West Texas Historical Association and Texas State Historical Association; Board of Directors in Humanities Texas (1998-2004).

Community Service: informal presentations to community groups; motivational talks to public school students.