Published Llano Estacado: Island in the Sky, for which he served as co-editor and contributed teh lead essay. The book includes six photographers' images and essays by Barry Lopez, William Kittridge, Annick Smith, Stephen Graham Jones, Rick Bass, and Sandra Schofield. It is a photographic and literary examination of the Llano Estacado.
In 2010, Bogener gave a paper at the West Texas Historical Association on the cultural nuances of Lubbock and the Llano Estacado. Some of his Environmental History students took a field trip to Palo Duro Canyon, and on another occasion, chinked the T-Anchor cabin north of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum. Students Chuck Jewell and Chris Johnson both received scholarships. Jamie Stanfield and Bogener submitted four grant proposals to Kellogg, Rockefeller, NEH, and the Ford Foundation. None of the proposals were funded, however. Larissa Gardner completed a successful internship with Ogallala Commons in Nazareth. Bogener participated in the Social Studies Collaborative Conference in Lubbock in the fall. He completed a chapter for Paul Carlson’s upcoming edited work, The Giant Side of Texas, and submitted two entries on the Pecos River for the upcoming Water Encyclopedia of North America.
Bruce Brasington
Named a Texas A&M System Regents' Professor, one of only a handful in the 101 year history of WTAMU. Published articles in Proceedings of the XIII International Congress of Medieval Canon Law and Zeitschrift der Savigny Stiftung fuer Rechtsgeschichte. Won two Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Awards for spring and fall.
In 2010, Brasington was the Guest Lecturer: International Summer School, Forschungsstelle für vergleichende OrdensgeschichteTechnische Universität Dresden during July-August 2010. He lectured to graduate students from the USA, Italy, and Japan on canon law and the religious life prior to IV Lateran (1215). He gave the Plenary Address: Annual Meeting of the Texas Medieval Association at Southern Methodist University, 23-25 September 2010. The title of his talk was, "The April of the World: Medieval Encounters in the Golden Age of Spiritualism." Brasington spoke on Power and Accountability in Medieval Canon Law: The Many Lives of the Maxim 'Quia privilegium meretur' at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds, UK, 12-15 July 2010. His graduate student, Andrea Olivarez, won the “outstanding paper” prize at the annual graduate medieval conference held at University of North Texas in February.
Elizabeth Clark
Organized and co-led a summer study abroad student trip to Poland and Germany. The students and faculty visited Lech Walesa's office in Gdansk, delivered greetings from WT, and gave a gift (Walesa was hospitalized at the time, so they could not meet as planned). Won a Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award for spring.
Paul Clark
Elected to a 3 year term to the Council on Conferences of the Association of Asian Studies. The AAS is a scholarly, non-political, non-profit professional association with 7000 members worldwide. It publishes the Journal of Asian Studies, the premier journal in the field of Asian Studies, and has its own book series and press. Won two Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Awards for spring and fall.
Marty Kuhlman
Received the 2011 WTAMU Alumni Association's University Excellence Award. Won a Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award for spring.
Byron Pearson
Presented a paper entitled "The Environmental Legacy of Stewart Udall" at the April meeting of the American Society for Environmental History. Won two Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Awards for spring and fall.
Patricia Roeser
Presented a paper on "High Plains Public History" at the West Texas Historical Association Conference in April.
In 2010, Roeser was awarded a $500 FDSCA grant, served as a judge for paper presentation at the TAMU Pathways Symposium, served on the National Council on Public History membership committee, and prepared a paper for the Nineteenth Century Studies Association annual meeting in New Mexico in the Spring. It is about the intersections of class and gender during the fundraising campaign to build the Bunker Hill Monument.
Jean A. Stuntz
Published a chapter in the anthology Women on the Plains of North America (Texas Tech University Press 2011). Won a Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Award for spring.
In 2010, Stuntz finished her year as Faculty Senate President and her year as President of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. She presented Papers at the Texas State Historical Association and at the West Texas Historical Association. She received contracts for two book chapters and a creative non-fiction piece on Texas history.
Bryan E. Vizzini
Presented a conference paper at the Pop Culture Association / American Studies Association in San Antonio in April. Won two Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Awards for spring and fall.
In 2010, Vizzini presented “Love and Romance in Revolutionary Mexico” at the 2010 international Film & History Conference on November 13.
Previous Accomplishments
Elizabeth Clark received a Fulbright-Hays and a traditional Fulbright research grant in spring 2008. She spent the 2009 academic year conducting research in Poland.
Paul Clarkwas named Outstanding Professor for the Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities by the Mortar Board organization of WT in 2010.
Marty Kuhlmanpublished Always WT - The Centennial History of West Texas A&M University in 2010.
Joe D. Rogers, adjunct professor, was elected President of the Texas Archeological Society for 2010.
Wade Shafferwas named Interim Provost of West Texas A&M University in February 2011. He is the academic director for the $930,000 Teaching American History grant received by Region XVI Education Service Center. The grant is for three years and targets public school American history teachers.
Jean Stuntzreceived the Faculty Service Excellence Award for the Sybil B. Harrington College of Fine Arts and Humanities in 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011. She served as President of the Faculty Senate for 2009-2010 and as President of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online for 2010.
Student Success Stories
Current Students:
Larissa Gardner won a laptop - the prize was donated by WT alumna Shirley Nichols.
Both Stephanie Bowden and Grant James were part of a Killgore Student Summer Research Grant proposal that Bogener wrote to conduct research primarily in New Mexico. Both students were investigating incidents of violence in the wake of the Lincoln County War which supposedly ended in 1881. Both students visited the State Archive and Records Center in Santa Fe, the special collections and library at UNM in Albuquerque, the Hubbard Museum and Archive in Ruidoso, and the Chavez County Museum/Archive in Roswell.
Hillarie Easely McPherson, Carley Dumenil and Jan Weston presented papers at the West Texas Historical Association conference in April.
Stephanie Bowden presented a paper at the WTAMU Student Research Conference last spring. She is now expanding the paper with the intent to publish an article as a grad student.
Former Students
Kyle Winter graduates in May 2010 with a JD from Texas Tech Law School.
Christy Czerwien: Has been admitted to the graduate program in history at the University of Pittsburgh.
Tracy Stewart was accepted into the PhD program at Texas Tech.
Ashley Franklin was an intern at the Texas Supreme Court.
Anessa Stegner, former history major and student body President, is teaching as an instructor and is writing her dissertation at the UC Irvine.
Joanna Junker is doing the same at Stanford.
Departmentally: Public History is up and running
Undergraduate:
As of now, there are 19 students enrolled in the first ever offered Public History Course at WTAMU.
History Graduate Program:
The grad program last year had 22 individual students enrolled. In 2010, 38 individual students enrolled—many of whom are interested in public history, three seminars have made. This represents an increase of 72 percent.
