Kendra K. DeHart, Ph.D. Sul Ross State University LH 212 Alpine, Texas 79832 432-837-8150 [email protected] Last Updated: August 2020
______Education
Ph.D. in History August Texas Christian University—Fort Worth, Texas 2020 Dissertation: “From Victory to Validation: The Victory Study Club and Women’s Activism in San Angelo, Texas, 1942 to 1975.” Committee: Drs. Rebecca Sharpless (Advisor); Gregg Cantrell, Todd Kerstetter, Kara Dixon Vuic Comprehensive Fields: U.S. History Since 1877; U.S. History to 1877; American West; Modern European History; and American Women’s History. Master of Arts in History with a specialization in Public History 2010 to Texas State University—San Marcos, Texas 2013 M.A. Thesis: “‘Making the Best Better’: Home Demonstration Work on the Llano Estacado, 1914 to 1950.” Defended with Distinction. Committee: Dr. Rebecca Montgomery (Chair), Dr. Patricia Denton, and Mr. Dan Utley Bachelor of Arts in History; Minor in Communication Studies 2003 to Southwestern University—Georgetown, Texas 2007 Paideia Scholar
______Professional Experience
Instructor of History, Sul Ross State University—Alpine, Texas Fall 2016 Courses Taught to Date: to Present • U.S. History to 1877
• U.S. History Since 1877 • American Women’s History • History of the American West • The Study of History
Research Assistant, Texas Christian University—Fort Worth, Texas 2013 • Conducted research for TCU professors Drs. Gregg Cantrell and Rebecca Sharpless, which assisted in to 2016 the completion of publications and manuscripts. • Research consisted of visiting archive collections, uncovering various primary source materials through online databases, and finding/analyzing secondary source material that might be of particular use to their projects. Instructor’s Assistant & Lecturer, Texas State University—San Marcos, Texas 2011 • Assessed undergraduates’ performance by grading exams and writing assignments. to 2013 • Contributed to students’ understanding of course material and class requirements. • Assisted professor in day-to-day classroom management. Lectured regularly in-class and held study sessions for students outside of class.
Primary Researcher, Historical Marker for Kokernot Field—Alpine, Texas Fall • Conducted oral histories and developed original research on the historical Kokernot Field 2011 ballpark in Alpine, Texas. • Research culminated in a ten-page application to the Historical Marker Program at the Texas Historical Commission. • Completed and submitted the report for historical marker designation.
Head Researcher of Site Team, Lyndon B. Johnson National Park Service, Texas State Fall University—San Marcos, Texas 2011 • Developed a report for the National Park Service based on original research and historical analysis that will be used to augment future programmatic considerations relative to site interpretation of the Secret Service Command Post at the LBJ Ranch. • Oversaw and coordinated all research for the site team. • Conducted oral histories regarding the history of the Secret Service Command Post at the LBJ Ranch.
Co-Researcher, “El Paso: ‘The Chinese Mecca of the Southwest’,” Texas State Fall University—San Marcos, Texas 2011 • Developed a local community history project designed to recover the historical experiences of often marginalized groups in Texas history. • Conducted oral histories with Chief Justice of the 8th Court of Appeals David Chew and District Judge Linda Chew. • Researched local newspapers and maps to identify the Chinese community in El Paso. • Culminated in a final paper for publication.
Intern, Museum of the Big Bend, Sul Ross State University—Alpine, Texas Summer • Conducted collection management cataloging of the museum’s collection. 2011 • Researched and assisted the museum in admission to the American Alliance of Museums. • Conducted oral histories and deposited transcripts with residents from the Big Bend region as well as contributors and former employees of the Museum of the Big Bend.
______Certification
Teaching Certificate in Women and Gender Studies 2015 Texas Christian University—Fort Worth, Texas
Professional Associations
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• American Historical Association • Organization of American Historians • Texas State Historical Association • Texas Oral History Association • Western History Association • Southern Women’s Historical Association • West Texas Historical Association • Rural Women’s Studies Association • Triota, National Women’s Honor Society • Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society • Dallas Area Society of Historians • Alpha Chi Honor Society • Southwestern University Paieda Honor Society ______Awards & Honors Boller Dissertation Grant, Texas Christian University—Fort Worth, Texas 2019
Merited Tuition Award, Texas Christian University—Fort Worth, Texas 2014 to 2020 Boller-Worcester Travel Grants, Texas Christian University—Fort Worth, Texas 2016 to 2018 Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr. Award for Best Article in The Sound Historian: 2014 Journal of the Texas Oral History Association (2013 edition)
Provost Fellowship, Texas Christian University—Fort Worth, Texas 2013 to 2014
Outstanding Graduate Student in History, Texas State University—San Marcos, Texas 2013
Merrick Tuition Scholarship, Texas State University—San Marcos, Texas 2012 to 2013
Graduate Student Advisor to Texas State University's College of Liberal Arts Board, Texas Fall State University—San Marcos, Texas 2011
Annie Edwards Barcus Minga Orators Achievement Award, Southwestern University—Georgetown, 2005 Texas
______Publications "Crooked With Their Fingers—Boston Pickpockets in Fort Worth" in Wanted In America: Fall Posters Collected by the Fort Worth Politic Department, 1898-1903, edited by LeAnna Schooley and 2019 Thomas Kellam, Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2019.
“Jury Hung, Clay Henry Not: Scandal and Judicial Intrigue in Lajitas, Texas.” The Sound Fall Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 15 (2013). 2013
Review of “Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity” by Glen Sample Ely. The Sound Fall Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 14 (2012): 123-125. 2012
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Co-author, “‘Guarding an Impulsive Mover’: A Developmental History of the U.S. Secret January Service Command Post.” LBJ National Historic Park: Gillespie County, Texas. A National Park 2012 Service Report based on original research and historical analysis to assist in site interpretation of the Secret Service Command Post at the LBJ Ranch.
______Presentations
Chair, “Center of Big Bend Studies Session,” West Texas Historical Association Conference— April Canyon, Texas. 2019
Session Participant, “Women in West Texas History: Workshop and Research Challenges,” April West Texas Historical Association Annual Conference—Canyon, Texas. 2019
“Nixing the White, Sunbonneted, Helpmate: A Brief Historiography of Women in the May American West,” Fort Davis Public Library’s Traveling Exhibit remembering Lonesome Dove— 2018 Fort Davis, Texas.
“‘No Pink Tea Side to Women’s Clubs’: San Angelo’s Postwar Clubwomen,” West Texas April Historical Association Annual Conference—San Angelo, Texas. 2018
“Deep Roots in Shallow Soils: Lyndon Johnson, the Secret Service, and Life on the Ranch,” September American Association for State and Local History Annual Conference—Austin, Texas. 2017
“Herlinda Wong Chew: Acculturation as Resistance in the Era of Chinese Exclusion,” keynote April address delivered at the Sigma Zeta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, Texas 2016 State University—San Marcos, Texas.
“The Saga of Clay Henry: Scandal and Judicial Intrigue in Lajitas, Texas,” presentation to the March Fort Worth Westerners History Association—Fort Worth, Texas. 2016
“El Paso’s Chinese in the Era of Exclusion: Settlement and Resistance in a Border Community, October th 1881-1922,” presentation at 55 Annual Conference of the Western History Association— 2015 Portland, Oregon.
“‘For the Sake of Our Children and Our Children’s Children’: Political and Social Activism in February the Home Demonstration Club Movement,” paper presentation at the Rural Women’s Studies 2015 Association Triennial Conference—San Marcos, Texas.
“‘We Are Now Reaching for the Home:’ Home Demonstration Work and Rural September Transformation, 1913 to 1945,” paper presentation at the Century Beyond the Campus: Past, 2014 Present, and Future of Extension. A Research Symposium to Mark the 100th Anniversary of the Smith-Lever Act—Morgantown, West Virginia.
“‘Let Them Progress on Their Own Stream’: Home Demonstration Work on the Llano April Estacado, 1917-1950,” paper presentation at the West Texas Historical Association Annual 2014 Conference—Odessa, Texas.
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“A Teacher on Wheels for Farm and Ranch Women: Home Demonstration Work on the Llano April Estacado, 1917-1950,” paper presentation at the 18th Cotton and Rural History Conference, 2014 Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum—Greenville, Texas. “‘Guarding an Impulsive Mover’: Lyndon Johnson, the Secret Service, and Life on the Ranch,” March paper presentation at the Texas State Historical Association Annual Conference—San Antonio, 2014 Texas.
“‘Let Them Progress on Their Own Stream’: Expectations & Realities of Home Demonstration April Work in Twentieth-Century Texas,” paper presentation at the 2nd Annual Texas Oral History 2013 Association Conference, Texas State University—San Marcos, Texas.
“‘Help Us Help Ourselves’: Home Demonstration Work in Early-Twentieth-Century Texas,” February paper presentation at the 2nd Texas Tech University Graduate Conference—Lubbock, Texas. 2013
“‘Making the Best Better’: The Better Mattress Campaign in Texas’s Rural Communities,” November poster presentation at the Texas State University Graduate History Conference, Texas State 2012 University—San Marcos, Texas.
“Jury Hung, Clay Henry Not: Scandal and Judicial Intrigue in Lajitas, Texas,” paper April presentation at the Texas Oral History Association Annual Conference, Baylor University— 2012 Waco, Texas.
“Exploring the Reel Texas Cowboy: Exhibiting the Hollywood Western as History in the Bob November Bullock State History Museum,” paper presentation at Texas State University Graduate History 2011 Student Conference, Texas State University—San Marcos, Texas.
______University & Community Service Serving on CORE Curriculum Assessment Committee at Sul Ross State University—Alpine, Present Texas. Serving as Faculty Advisor for the Lambda-Theta Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, the National Present History Honor’s Society at Sul Ross State University—Alpine, Texas.
Serving as a Board Member for the Brewster County Historical Commission—Alpine, Texas. Present
Serving as faculty advisor for History majors/minors and Social Science majors/minors at Sul 2017 to Ross State University—Alpine, Texas. Present
Introduced the recipients of the History Department Awards at Sul Ross State University’s 2016 to Annual Honor’s Convocation—Alpine, Texas. 2019
Guest speaker to the Big Bend Chapters of the Girl Scouts of America at the Alpine Public August Library—Alpine, Texas. 2019
Volunteer judge at Big Bend Regional History Fair for regional middle school and high school April students at Sul Ross State University—Alpine, Texas. 2019
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Promoted and hosted Black History and Women’s History Months and Native American Springs Heritage Month events at Sul Ross State University—Alpine, Texas. 2017-19
Attend regularly university-sponsored events at Sul Ross State University—Alpine, Texas. 2016 to Present Registrar and Treasurer for the Hally Bryan Perry Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of 2017 to Texas—Alpine, Texas. Present
Volunteer participant in Dancing with the Alpine Stars, a fundraiser for Alpine Public Library— February Alpine, Texas. 2019
Volunteered with TCU’s Women and Gender Studies Program to assist Planned Parenthood Spring with its annual meeting—Fort Worth, Texas. 2016
Served on the Women’s & Gender Studies Programming Committee for its annual conference Fall hosted at Texas Christian University—Fort Worth, Texas. 2015
Served as Graduate Student Mentor for incoming graduate students at Texas Christian Fall University—Fort Worth, Texas. 2015
Serving as Graduate Student Coordinator for the Rural Women’s Studies Association. 2015 to 2019
Participant in DASH (the Dallas Area Society of Historians) workshops and meetings to assist 2013 to fellow historians to develop and improve their research and publications. Present
Volunteered as a judge at the regional competition of the Texas Junior Historians hosted at Spring Texas Christian University—Fort Worth, Texas. 2014
Served as an officer of Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society, Sigma Zeta Chapter, at Texas 2012- State University—San Marcos, Texas. 2013
Volunteered at the Austin History Center collecting material for a New Deal exhibit in Austin, 2011 Texas.
______Selected Student Accomplishments “Women of the Mexican Revolution in the Archives of Big Bend” Fall 2019; HIST 3310: History of the American West Students and I engaged in a public history assignment researching women in the Mexican Revolution for the purposes of assisting in the re-interpretation of the Mexican Revolution Exhibit in the Museum of the Big Bend. Through collaboration with the Library, Archives of the Big Bend, and Museum of the Big Bend, we were able to submit a formal report that will aid in the re-interpretation of the exhibit. It is officially deposited in the Archives of the Big Bend for future researchers and scholars. Students also gave a formal presentation to the Library, Archives, and Museum staff. “Sidelines to Frontlines” Spring 2018; Andrea Bode’s Senior Capstone Project
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This was a one-act play written and produced by students that discussed Andera’s evolution as an activist through her coursework in History, particularly the American Woman’s History course which I taught, and in Communication. I was honored to perform in the final production.
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