1 Curriculum Vitae: Marian J. Barber, Ph.D. 1813 Cedar Ave. / Austin, TX 78702 / 512-769-2858 / marianj.barber@gmail.com Education Rice University, B.A., cum laude, 1979. Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, M.P.Aff., 1988; Professional Report: The Role of Elite Councils in Local Economic Development, case studies of eight major U.S. cities. Center for History in the Media, George Washington University, Certificate in Historical Documentary Filmmaking, 1998. Class film project: Down Freedom s Main Line on the Freedom Rides of 1961. University of Arizona Summer Program in Mexico, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1999. Spanish immersion language program. University of Texas at Austin, M.A., 2002; Master s Report: On the Cusp of Jim Crow: Race and Class in the Texas Gubernatorial Election of 1892. University of Texas at Austin, Ph.D., May 2010. Major Field: United States, with specialization in race and ethnicity in the Texas-Mexico borderlands Minor Field: Modern Europe Dissertation: How the Irish, Germans, and Czechs Became Anglo: Race and Identity in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands Completed Supervised Teaching in History, Spring 2004. Papers/Presentations Piñata Ranch Stories, commissioned oral history, 2010. Brown and a Kind of White: Mexican-German Relations in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1910 to 1934, annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, 2009. Sam and Margaret, Sam Houston Symposium, Sam Houston State University, 2009. Commemorating Our Dead: Artifacts of the Czech Diaspora, poster presentation, annual meeting of the American Historical Association, 2009. "From Mexican Federalists to Know-Nothings in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas," annual meeting of the Urban History Association, 2008.
2 Leaving Deutschtum: The Rise and Fall of German Identity in the American Southwest, annual meeting of the Western History Association, 2007. Lily Whites and Longnecks: German Political Activism in Gilded Age and Progressive- Era Texas, annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, 2007. On the Celtic-American Fringe: Irish-Mexican Encounters in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, Harvard Celtic Colloquium, 2006. The Czech Cemetery: Folk Art in Stone and Zinc, Six Other Flags Over Texas conference, University of Texas at Austin, 2003. The Great Edna Manhunt of 1905, annual meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, 2002. When Death Stalked the Temperance Movement in Texas, fall conference, East Texas Historical Association, 2001. Featured in the Dallas Morning News. Publications On the Celtic-American Fringe: Irish-Mexican Encounters in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Vol. XXVI, 2010. Review: Glasrud and Pitre, eds., Black Women in Texas History in The Journal of South Texas, 2008. A Catholic Catholic Upbringing, Burnt Orange Britannia, Wm. Roger Louis, ed., Austin, 2005. Review: Acosta and Winegarten, Las Tejanas: 300 Years of History in The Journal of South Texas, 2004. The T.J. Ford Model for Leading Discussions, Promising Practices, University of Texas at Austin Center for Teaching and Learning website, 2004 to present. Teaching Experience University of Texas at Austin, Summer Session I, 2011: U.S. History Since 1865 Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, Spring 2011: Texas History, Race & Gender in 20 th Century U.S. Sport. University of Texas at Austin, Summer Session I, 2010: U.S. History to 1865 Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, Fall 2009: Texas History
3 University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2007: The Civil War in Fiction, Fact, and Film Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, Fall 2007: Texas History University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1999-Spring 2003: Teaching Assistant, U.S. and Texas history University of Texas at Austin, Fall 1999-Spring 2001: Supplemental Instruction Leader, U.S. history University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2001-Spring 2002: Supplemental Instruction Liaison, Department of History Northeast-Midwest Institute, Washington, DC, Summer, 1987: taught writing skills to undergraduate interns, each of whom produced a published article on a state economic development program. Research and Writing Experience Staff writer, Kansas City Star, 1981-1984; member of staff that won 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting for coverage of Hyatt Regency skywalks collapse; research and editorial assistant for The New Competitors: How Foreign Direct Investment is Changing America s Economy, a Business Week top 10 business book of 1989; associate editor, Guide to State and Local Economic Development, Northeast- Midwest Institute, 1989; research at agencies including the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Home Loan Bank Board, Securities and Exchange Commission, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Transportation, Department of Agriculture, Economic Development Administration of the Department of Commerce, and U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, Library of Congress, and Supreme Court, 1985-1993; staff writer, Housing & Development Reporter, 1988-1990; research at Smithsonian Institution and Library of Congress for PBS documentary, American Buffalo: Spirit of a Nation (on Nature), 1998; assisted with Stealing Time: The New Science of Aging, PBS, 1998. Honors and Activities Southwestern University Teaching Award nominee, spring 2011. Co-organizer, National History Center-American Historical Association Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching workshop, scheduled for AHA Annual Meeting, January 2011, Boston. Postdoctoral Fellow, British Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2010-2011. Phi Delta Theta Fraternity Faculty Appreciation Dinner, Southwestern University, Spring 2010, 2011.
4 Honorable Mention, Burleson Prize for best original thesis in Texas history, University of Texas at Austin, 2009. Summer Staff, American Historical Association s National History Center s International Seminar on Decolonization, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011. Junior Fellow of British Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2005 to present. Friar Society, University of Texas at Austin, 2005 to present. Co-chair, Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2008. Clara Driscoll/Texas Sesquicentennial Fellowship in Texas History, University of Texas at Austin, 2001, 2003, 2006-2007, 2008. Ann Schumacher Adkins Scholarship in German-Texas History, University of Texas at Austin, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006-2007, 2008. Churchill Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 2003. Co-Chair, Graduate Student Assembly, University of Texas at Austin, 2003-2004. Graduate Student Representative, Graduate Assembly, University of Texas at Austin, 2003-2004. Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Council, University of Texas at Austin, 2003-2004. University of Texas System Student Advisory Council, 2003-2004; chair, Committee on Graduate and Health Affairs. President s Student Advisory Council, University of Texas at Austin, 2003-2004. Graduate Student Representative, Responsibilities, Rights and Welfare of Graduate Student Academic Employees (Faculty Committee), University of Texas at Austin, 2000-2002, 2007-2008. Outstanding Teaching Assistant, History Department, University of Texas at Austin, 2000-2001. Student Representative to History Department Graduate Program Committee, University of Texas at Austin, 2000-2001. Co-founder, History Graduate Council, 2000. Co-creator, History Department graduate student listserv, 2000.
5 Elected Commencement Speaker, LBJ School of Public Affairs, 1988. Rice University: National Merit Scholar, Moody Scholar, Lady Geddes Prize in Writing. Competed in National Spelling Bee, 1970. [June 2, 2011]