Brenda Taylor Matthews Professor of History Social Science Department, Chair Texas Wesleyan University 1201 Wesleyan Fort Worth, TX 76105-1536 (817) 531-4916 [email protected]

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D. Texas Christian University, Department of History, 1994 Dissertation: "The Farm Security Administration: Meeting Rural Health Needs in the South, 1933-1946"

Major Field: United States History Minor Fields: United States Borderlands Early Modern Europe Course Work GPA: 4.0

• M.A. Texas Christian University, Department of History Thesis: "The Influence of Gerard Groote's 'Devotio Moderna' on Ignatius Loyola and Catholic Reform"

• B.S. Secondary Education: History / Biology, Dallas Baptist University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• 2011-Present Pate Professor of Modern American History

• 2004-Present Professor of History, Texas Wesleyan University, Chair of Social Science Department

• 2000-2007 Associate Professor of History, Texas Wesleyan University

• 2003-Present Chair of Social Sciences, Texas Wesleyan University

• 2005 Fall semester-Sabbatical

• 1998-1999 Fulbright Professor, American Studies, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

• 1995-2000 Assistant Professor of History, Texas Wesleyan University

• Occasional Faculty Texas Christian University, United States History. Adjunct Faculty Texas Wesleyan University, United States History. Adjunct Faculty , United States History

• Graduate Assistant to Spencer Tucker, Department Chair, Texas Christian University. Graded Modern European History including courses in European Intellectual, the Cold War, United States Military History, and History of Vietnam

TEACHING AREAS:

• United States in World Perspective • United States History to 1876 and Since 1876 • Humanities: The Human Experience and the Human Prospect • History of Texas • Beyond the Mississippi: Advance of the American Frontier • United States-Spanish Borderlands • History of Mexico • The New Deal • The New South • Women of the Western World Since 1500 • Women and Reform • Historiography and Historical Methods • Internship • Interdisciplinary General Education

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS:

• “Daily Life at OLV,” in the book Grace and Gumption: The Cookbook, Texas Christian University Press, July 2010.

• “Ladies of Victory: Fort Worth’s OLV and the Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur,” in the book Grace and Gumption: a History of Fort Worth Women, Texas Christian University Press, 2007.

• "Home Economists and Nurses in Health Delivery: The Farm Security Administration, 1933-1946," in the book The New Deal and Beyond: Social Welfare in the South since 1930 , University of Georgia Press, 2003.

• "Texas: Past and Present," in the book Rediscovering America, New Approaches to American Culture , Stuttgart, Germany: J.B. Metzler, 2001.

• Book Review, Facing the “King of Terrors”: Death and Society in an American Community, 1750- 1990, Journal of the West , 2001.

• "The New Deal and Health: Meeting Farmers' Needs in Ropesville, Texas, 1933-1943." Journal of the West . January 1997.

• "Women in World War I." In Encyclopedia of World War I: Europe , edited by Spencer Tucker. New York: Garland Press, 1996.

• "George Bush." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• "Lt. William Laws Calley, Jr." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• "Jimmy Carter." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• "William Clinton." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• "John K. Galbraith." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• "Great Society Program." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• "Henry Luce." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War, edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• "Potsdam Conference." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• "Franklin D. Roosevelt." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• Benjamin Spock." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• "Harry S. Truman." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• "Woodrow Wilson." In Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War , edited by Spencer Tucker. California: ABC-Clio, 1998.

• Book review for the Journal of the West on To Serve the Greatest Number , a book on a group health program in Seattle, Washington. October 1998.

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS:

• “Dalworthington Gardens: New Deal Community,” East Texas State Historical Association, Waco, Texas, March 2011.

• “The Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur on the Frontiers of Education in Texas,” Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 2006.

• "The Indian in Texas History: Teaching and the Internet." 22 nd American Indian Workshop, University Michel De Montaigne-Bordeaux III, Bordeaux, France, April 2001.

• Chair and Organizer, "Undergraduate Research using Oral History: History Comes Alive!" Southwestern Social Sciences Association, Fort Worth, Texas, March 2001.

• Discussant, “Translating History, or Thinking Across the Past: Admiring Virtue from Afar: The Stress Between Self and Civic Virtue in Early America,” Midwest Modern Language Association, Kansas City, Missouri, November 2000.

• Chair and Discussant, National Archives Symposium, Fort Worth, Texas, February 2000

• “Farm Security Administration New Deal Health Experiment in Cass County, Texas.” East Texas Historical Association, Galveston, Texas, February 2000.

• "Home Economists and Nurses in Health Delivery: Farm Security Administration, 1933-1946." Southern Historical Association, Birmingham, Alabama, November 1998.

• “Wheeler County 1942: New Deal Medical Care Finally Comes to the Plains of Texas.” Center for Great Plains Studies 1998 Symposium, “Health, Lifestyle, Sport and Recreation on the Great Plains, Lincoln, Nebraska, April 1998.

• “…And (I) must eat everything cooked”: Assistant Economist Emily S. Hoag and One Hundred Farm Women.” Southwestern Social Science Association, Women’s Caucus, Corpus Christi, Texas, March 1998.

• “The Farm Security Administration: Economists, Nurses, and Farmers, 1937- 1946.” Southwestern Social Science Association, Women’s Caucus, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1997.

• “’Vanquishing the Disguised Joker’: The Farm Security Administration and Maternal-Infant Care in Taos, New Mexico, 1940-1946.” Western Historical Association, Lincoln, Nebraska, October 1996.

• "New Deal Colony Building: The Failure of the 'Complete Community' in Dyess Farms, Arkansas, 1934-1946." The Mississippi River and her People, National Archives Symposium, Memphis, Tennessee, March 1996.

• "The Farm Security Administration Medical Work: Impact on Women's Health, 1933-1936," Seventeenth Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, Missouri, September 1995.

• "Lost Opportunity: The Farm Security Administration and Rural Medical Care in the South, 1933-1946," Southwestern Social Science Association, Dallas, Texas, March 1995.

• "Farm Security Administration: Meeting Health Needs in Ropesville, Texas, 1935-1943," Annual Meeting, Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas, March 1994.

PUBLIC LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS:

• “Eleanor Roosevelt: After the Whitehouse,” Six Flags Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, March 2012.

• “New Deal Art,” Tarrant County Medical Association Retired Physicians Meeting, October 2010.

• “Our Lady of Victory in Images,” American Business Women’s Association, Midlothian, TX, March 9, 2009.

• “Grace and Gumption at the Goosetree,” Goosetree Symposium, Texas Wesleyan University, March 24, 2009.

• “Images of the Sisters,” Tarrant County Historical Society, Our Lady of Victory, April 2008.

• “The Sisters of Saint Mary of Namur in Fort Worth,” Six Flags Chapter of the Daughters of the Revolution, November 2006.

• "The Republic of Texas: Yes, there was a Republic of Texas Navy!" at the Sons of the Republic of Texas meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, October 5, 2002.

• "'Something must be done…' Roosevelt's New Deal," in conjunction with Volkhochshule (Community Education) exhibit of Dorothea Lange's photography, Stuttgart, Germany, January 1999.

• "New Deal Art and the Left," also in conjunction with Lange exhibit, Stuttgart, Germany, February 1999.

• "From Hearth to Factory: Women and Work," celebrating International Women's Day, Stuttgart, Germany, March 1999.

• USIS (United States Information Service) Munich: "The American Dream: Fiction and Reality in a Multicultural Society," conference coordinated with Paedagogisches Institut der Landeshauptstadt Munich in Achatswies,"The Imagined West: Fulfilling the American Dream," Achatswies, Germany, March 1999.

• Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Tubingen (German-American Institute in Tubingen): "Is There Still a Southern Distinctiveness" for Visiting German Teachers traveling to South Carolina, Tubingen, Germany, April 1999.

• "Henry David Thoreau and Civil Disobedience," with Dr. Marianne Erickson, on the anniversary of the essay “Resistance to Civil Government,” Stuttgart, Germany, May 1999.

• Amerika Haus Berlin Teachers' Conference with University of Greifswald: "Current Trends in American Culture," lecture, "New Frontiers in the American West,” Berlin, Germany, May 1999.

• Byrnes Institute Stuttgart English Teachers' Seminar in conjunction with Kirchentag (Church Day), "Religion in the United States," lecture "The Products of Religious Freedom: Mainstream Denominations, Fringe Groups, and Cults in the U.S." with Dr. John F. Matthews, Stuttgart, Germany, June 1999.

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

• Texas Wesleyan University Board Service Award, May 2009. • Sam Taylor Fellowship, Proposal for Research on Our Lady of Victory Convent and Academy, Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church, $700, November 2005. • Sam Taylor Fellowship, Proposal for Research on Historiography of Texas Immigration , Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church, $1500, November 2000 • Selected for Fulbright, Lectureship, University of Stuttgart, Germany, 1998- 1999 • Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 1996 • Texas Wesleyan University Favorite Professor, 1995 • Graduate Fellowships, Texas Christian University, 1991-1993 • Membership in Phi Alpha Theta • Membership in Pi Gamma Mu

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Tarrant County Historical Society, Secretary, Board Member • Texas Wesleyan University and PolyTechnic Community Oral History • Internship Advisor with Students at the following institutions:  National Archives-Southwest Region  Texas Christian University Archives, Jim Wright Collection  Log Cabin Village  Amon Carter Museum  Fort Worth Library, African American Museum Collection  Fort Worth Museum of Science and History  XTO Energy • North Texas Fulbright Chapter, Texas

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: • Charter Member, North Texas Fulbright Chapter, Texas • American Association of University Professors • American Historical Association • Southern Association of Women Historians

LANGUAGE: • Spanish • German

REFERENCES:

• Dr. Marcel Kerr, Interim Dean of Natural and Social Sciences, Texas Wesleyan University • Dr. Trevor Morris, Professor of Political Science Texas Wesleyan University • Dr. Allen Henderson, Provost, Texas Wesleyan University • Dr. Clayton Brown, Texas Christian University