B.A., Philosophy,  Colorado State University, 1978

AWARDS:

Teacher of the Year (selected by faculty) - 1997-98

Educator of the Year (selected by students) - 1997-98

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:

American Historical Association

Organization of American Historians

PUBLICATIONS:

The American Foundation Myth in Vietnam: Reigning Paradigms and Raining Bombs (Lanham, MD: Univ. Press of America, 1998).  

CONFERENCES:

Co-host and Organizer, "Dialogues on Peace and Justice." Keynote: Sen. George McGovern, 15 March 2006.

Co-host: 12th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration. January 2006. Keynote: Morris Dees, SPLC.

Panel Moderator: "The Role of Pageants on a College Campus," Feb. 24, 2005. 

 Welcome and Introductory Remarks: "Vagina Monologues," Feb. 9, 2005.

Co-host: 11th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, Jan. 11, 2005 Keynote: Larry Echohawk, Director of Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, CO.

Co-host and Organizer: 10th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, Jan 13, 2004. Keynote: Yolanda King (daughter of Dr. and Mrs. King).

Speaker: UVSC Teach-In Regarding War with . "Why George W. Bush Should Take Note of Martin Luther King Jr's Opposition to (the ) Vietnam War." Feb. 5, 2003.

Co-Host/Co-Organizer: 9th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, January 2003). Keynote Speaker: Samuel Pieh (great-grandson of Cinque, leader of the Amistad slaveship revolt in 1839).

Co-Host/Co-Organizer: 8th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, January 2002. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Wilma King.

Host/Organizer: 7th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, January 2001. Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Eckford.

Host/Organizer: 6th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, January 24, 2000. Keynote Speaker: Stanford Historian Clayborne Carson.

Commentator: UVSC Gender Conference, September 1999.

Organizer: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) seminar for Faculty and Staff, November 9, 1999. Panel of Veterans' Administration psychiatrist, psychologist and client.

Chair/Comentator: Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) Annual Meeting, Princeton University. June 1999. New Perspectives on the War in Vietnam .

Chair/Discussant: Symposium, Texas Tech University, April 1999. Teaching the Vietnam War. 

 PAPERS PRESENTED

"'The Past is Prologue:' The American War in Iraq and Lessons (Un)Learned for Today," UVSC Elderquest Spring Seminar, April 2004, UVSC Campus.

"Religion, The Handmaiden of Slavery: How Christianity Commended -- and Condemned -- Slavery in the Antebellum Period."(Co-presenter: Dr. Lyn Bennett. Ethics Awareness Week, UVSC, September 2000). 

"Gender and Sea Island Emancipation: The Unambiguous Commitment of Unitarian Aboltionist Laura Towne to the South Carolina Lowcountry Freedmen," Second Annual Gender Conference, Utah Valley State College, September 1999.

Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, March 1997, Roundtable on Education Exchange.

University of Wisconsin, Conference on Teaching Introductory History, Waukesha, WI , 1995.

Annual Conference of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado Sprigs, CO, 1992.