Professor of History and American Studies
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences Program
Box 358436
University of Washington, Tacoma
1900 Commerce Street
Tacoma, Washington, 98402-3100
PHONE 253-692-4466
FAX 692-5718
EMAIL magician52@comcast.net
Ph.D., History, University of Washington (Seattle), 1985
Mentor: W. J. Rorabaugh
M.A., History, University of Montana, 1977
B.A., History, Central Washington State College, 1974
Early America
Frontier
American Studies (Early American Literature and Folklore)
Pacific Northwest
American Social
2000-present: Professor of History and American Studies, University of Washington, Tacoma
1992-2000: Associate Professor, University of Washington, Tacoma
1990-1992: Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Tacoma
1989-90: Assistant Professor, Eastern Montana College
1988-89: Member of the Faculty, Deep Springs College (CA)
1985-88: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Tennessee Technological University
2000-present: Coordinator, American Studies Concentration, University of Washington, Tacoma
1997-present: Founder and President, Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame Association and the Kittitas County Heritage Center Association, Ellensburg, Washington
1990-present: Founding Faculty Member, University of Washington, Tacoma
In progress: Mississippi River Valley: The Course of American Civilization
2006: The Confederation Congress and the West, 1783-1787 (New York: Edwin Mellen Press)
2004: A Patriot’s History of the United States: From Columbus’ Great Discovery to the War on Terror (New York: Sentinel [Penguin Group] ), with Larry Schweikart, winner of the Lysander Spooner Award for Advancing the Literature of Liberty (Laissez-Faire Books). Paperback and Audio book editions, 2007.
1999: Frontiers of Western History: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Western History, edited with Mary L. Hanneman (Needham, Mass: Simon and Schuster Custom Publishing). Revised second edition, 2007.
1998: Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination (Reno: University of Nevada Press), finalist for Spur Award (Western Writers of America)
1990: Western Rivermen, 1763-1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990), winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Book Award
Submitted: “ ’Goin’ Down That Road’: The Rodeo Cowboy in Film,” in The Landscape of Western Movies (University of Kansas Press)
1996: “Who Was David Crockett?,” in Calvin Dickinson and Larry Whiteaker (eds.) Tennessee: State of the Nation (New York: American Heritage Custom, 1995), 47-53
1991: “The Ohio: Artery of Movement,” in Robert L. Reid, ed., Always A River: The Ohio River and the American Experience (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991), 105-29.
2007: “Turner, Trekboers, and Adaptation: A Socio-Culutral Analysis of the South African Frontier,” submitted
2006: “Ikua Purdy, Yakima Canutt, and Pete Knight: Continuity and Tradition Among Pacific Basin Rodeo Cowboys,” Journal of the West, 45 (Spring 2006), 43-50.
2005: “ ‘I Just want to be a Cosmic Cowboy’’: Hippies, Cowboy Code, and the Culture of a “Counter” Culture,” Western Historical Quarterly 36 (Autumn 2005), 275-99
1998: “Origins and Evolution of North American Rodeo,” Journal of the West 37 (Jan. 1998), 69-79
1996: ” ‘When the Cowboys Are Indians and the Indians Are Cowboys’: Plains and Plateau Indian Rodeo Riders in Literature,” Pacific Northwest Forum 10 (Winter-Fall 1996), 94-111
1994: “The ‘New’ Western History Stillborn,” The Historian 57 (Fall 1994), 201-208
1994: “‘Row Boatmen Row!,’” The Songs of the Early Ohio and Mississippi Rivermen,” Gateway Heritage, Quarterly Journal of the Missouri Historical Society 14 (Winter, ‘93-’94), 46-59
1992: “Mabel Strickland and the Rise and Decline of the Early Rodeo Cowgirl,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 83 (October 1992), 122-27
1990: “The Riverman As Jacksonian Man,” Western Historical Quarterly, 21 (August, 1990), 305-20
1986: “Justice For The Indians: The Federalist Quest,” Essex Institute Historical Collections, 122 (April, 1986), 124-41
1985: “Sired By A Hurricane: Mike Fink, Western Boatmen, and the Myth of the Alligator Horse,” Arizona and the West, 27 (Autumn, 1985), 237-52
1983: “The Lower Mississippi in 1803: The Travelers’ View,” Missouri Historical Review, 77 (April, 1983) 253-71
1981: “Anti-Federalism and Libertarianism,” Reason Papers, 7 (Spring, 1981), 73-94
1978: “The Federalists and the West, 1783-1803,” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, 61 (October, 1978), 315-32
1977: “Jay, Gardoqui, and the Mississippi River Debate, 1785-1787,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 36 (Winter, 1977), 447-67
Forthcoming: “Mississippi River,” in Encyclopedia of the Midwest
2000: “Mississippi River,” in Oxford Companion in American History
1998: “Rivermen,” in Encyclopedia of Western History
1997: “Steamboats,” and “Transportation, River” in Encyclopedia of Tennessee History
2006: “John Ford Clymer: The Life and Art of a Pacific Northwest painter and Illustrator,” Columbia: Magazine of Western History (Fall 2006),
2002: “Alligator Horses on the Old Mississippi,” Two Parts, The Waterways Journal 116 (August 19 and August 26, 2002), 13-14
2000: “Desert of Wheat: Zane Grey’s Contemporary Western,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 91 (Fall 2000), 217-18
1999: “Rodeo Tales: Injury, Death, and Glory in the Arena,” Persimmon Hill 27 (Winter 1999), 25-29
1999: “Rodeo Reminiscences,” ibid., 30-31
1998: “Yakima Canutt: From Colfax to Hollywood.” Columbia, The Magazine of Northwest History 12 (Summer 1998), 38-43
1997: “Cowboyphobia, or The Emperors Wear No Duds,” Journal of the West 36 (October 1997), 3-6
1996: “Ken Kesey’s Last Go-Round,” The Ketch Pen (Rodeo History Society) 9 (Summer 1996), 10-11
1996: “The Rodeo Cowboy in Art: A Sampler,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 87 (Winter 1995-96)
1995-96: “‘Hard Day’s Night’: The Beatles’ 1964 Seattle Concert,” Columbia, Magazine of Northwest History (Summer 1996) 6-11 (with Pat Diviney)
1995: “Beyond the ‘Endless Mountains’: The View From The Ohio River,” Queen City Heritage, Quarterly Journal of the Cincinnati Historical Society (Fall 1995)
1995: “Showdown at the P. C. Corral: The Demise of the ‘New’ Western History,” Columbia, Magazine of Northwest History 9 (Spring 1995), 3-5
1995: “Trailing the Rodeo Cowboy: The Rodeo Art of Clifford P. Westermeier,” The Ketch Pen 7 (January 1995), 2-5
1993-94: “Mabel Strickland, Rodeo Cowgirl,” The Ketch Pen 6 (December-January 1993-94), 2-3
1993: “Ellensburg’s Rodeo Grounds,” The Ketch Pen 6 (July 1993), 18-19
1992-93: “Presidential Assassinations in American Folklore and Popular Culture,” Columbia, Magazine of Northwest History 6 (Winter 1992-93) 2-5
1991: “Let ‘er Buck! How the Ellensburg Rodeo Was Born,” Columbia, Magazine of Northwest History, 5 (Summer, 1990), 10-12
1986: “Historical Works on Early American Rivermen,” Bookman’s Weekly, 78 (Nov, 24, 1986), 2141-43
1984: (ed.), “Reminiscences of a Common Boatman, 1849-1851,” Gateway Heritage, Quarterly Journal of the Missouri Historical Society, 5 (Fall, 1984), 36-49
1984: “Big Sky Burger: The Great Montana Hamburger Chase,” Montana Magazine, 64 (March-April, 1984), 19-20
1984: “Souvenirs of a Controversy: The Cook-Peary Postal Cards,” Alaska Journal, 14 (Summer, l984), 54-57
1982: “Life on the Mississippi–Towboat-Style,” The Lookout, 74 (June-July, 1982), 13-16
1997-present: “Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame Inductees,” an annual series in the Ellenburg Daily Record. Republished as “Special Hall of Fame Record Insert”
2005: “The Elections of 1816 and 2004: Federalists and Democrats Compared”
1992: “The Birth of the Ellensburg Rodeo,” Ellensburg Daily Record
1986: “Across Siberia By Rail,” two-part series in Ellensburg Daily Record
1983: “Spit in the Ocean, or ‘Greasewood City: You Can’t Get There From Here,’” Ellensburg Anthology
1982: “War Stories (Part 1),” Ellensburg Anthology
1981: “Rick Ramsay, or Why Reader’s Digest Won’t Publish My ‘Most Unforgettable Character’ Essay,” Ellensburg Anthology
1981: “The Birth of Kittitas Valley Rock,” two-part series in Ellensburg Daily Record
1978: “My Life on the Mississippi,” two-part series in Ellensburg Daily Record and Daily Missoulian
l976: “Stories of the American Revolution,” ten-part series in the Ellensburg Daily Record
Over seventy-five additional newspaper articles, essays, and short stories in Daily Missoulian (Mt) Bridgeport Leader (Ill.) and St. Francisville Times, Trenton Sun (Ill.), and Ellensburg Daily Record (Wa.)
Forthcoming: Peter La Chapelle, Proud to be an Okie: Cultural Politics, Country Music, and Migration to Southern California, in Pacific Historical Review
Forthcoming: Mississippi River culture
Forthcoming: Claus-M. Naske, Ernest Gruening: Alaska’s Greatest Governor, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly.
2007: Roy Rogers and Dale Evans: King of the Cowboys and Queen of the West, in Pacific Historical Review
2006: Renne Lagreid, Riding Pretty: Rodeo Royalty in Journal of the West
2007: James H. Justus, Fetching the Old Southwest, in Journal of Southern History
2005: Mary Ellen Rowe, Bulwark of the Republic: The American Militia in the Antebellum West, in Western Historical Quarterly
2005: The Western Steamboat, in Journal of Southern History
2004: Michael Vouri, The Pig War: Showdown at Griffin Bay, in The Pickett Society Quarterly
2003: Peter Stanfield, Horse Opera: The Strange History of the 1930s Singing Cowboy, in Pacific Historical Review
2003: Peter S. Onuf, Jefferson’s Empire: The Language of American Nationhood, in Continuity
2002: Richard W. Etulain, Telling Western Stories, in Nevada Historical Quarterly
2002: Daniel Herman, Hunting in the American Imagination, in Oregon Historical Quarterly
2002: Ray Allen Billington and Martin Ridge, Westward Expansion, abridged and revised 7th edition, in Columbia, Magazine of Northwest History
2001: Michael A. Bellesiles, Arming America: Origins of a National Gun Culture in Indiana Magazine of History
2001: Emily Foster (ed.), The Ohio Frontier: An Anthology of Early Writings, in Ohio Valley History
2001: Lawrence Clayton, et al, Horsing Around: Contemporary Cowboy Humor in Journal of the West
2001: Dick Steward, Duels and the Roots of Violence in Missouri, in Pacific Historical Review
2001: Wild West Shows, in Oregon Historical Quarterly
2000: Neal O. Hammon (ed.,) My Father Daniel Boone: The Draper Interviews With Nathan Boone in Journal of the West
2000: Blake Almendinger and Valerie Matsumoto (ed.), Over the Edge: Re-Mapping the American West in Journal of the West
1999: Wayne S. Wooden and Gavin Ehringer, Rodeo in America, in Montana, Magazine of Western History
1999: Elizabeth A. Perkins, Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Early Ohio Valley, in American Historical Review
1999: Laban S. Records, Cherokee Outlet Cowboy in Journal of the West
1999: Kent Steckmesser, The Western Hero in History and Legend in Journal of the West
1999: Baillargeon and Tepper (eds.) Legends of Our Time: Native Cowboy Life in Columbia, Magazine of Northwest History
1999: Will James, Lone Cowboy: My Life Story in Journal of the West
1999: Captain James Coomer, Life on the Ohio, in The American Neptune
1999: Volunteer Forty-Niners, in Tennessee Historical Quarterly 1998: America by Rivers in Journal of the West
1998: Joint review of Jon M. and Donna McDaniel Skovlin, Hank Vaughan: Hell-raising Cowboy from the Bunch Grass Territory and Thomas L. Clark, Western Lore and Language: A Dictionary, in Oregon Historical Quarterly
1997: Clyde Milner (ed.) A New Significance: Re-Imagining the American West in Journal of American History
1997: Stephen Aron, How The West Was Lost in Indiana Magazine of History
1997: Harvey Jackson, Rivers of History: Life on the Coosa, Tallapoosa, Cahaba, and Alabama in American Historical Review
1996: Coy Cross II, Go West Young Man! Horace Greeley in Journal of the Great Plains
1996: Keith Peterson and Mary E. Reed, Controversy, Conflict, and Compromise: A History of Lower Snake River Development and Keith Peterson, River of Life, Channel of Death: Fish and Dams on the Lower Snake, a double review in Oregon Historical Quarterly
1996: Jens Lund, Flatheads and Spoonies: Fishing For A Living in the Lower Ohio Valley, in Indiana Magazine of History
1996: Wilma Duniway, The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860, in Pacific Historical Review
1996: Nat Love, The Life and Adventures of Nat Love… in Tennessee Historical Quarterly
1996: Theodore Roosevelt, The Winning of the West (repr., 4 vols), in Tennessee Historical Quarterly
1996: Sally Zanjani, Ghost Dance Winter and Other Tales of the Frontier in Journal of the West
1995: William C. Davis, A Way Through the Wilderness: The Natchez Trace and the Civilization of the Southern Frontier, in Tennessee Historical Quarterly
1995: David H. Mould Dividing Lines: Canals, Railroads, and Urban Rivalry in Ohio’s Hocking Valley, 1825-1875, in American Historical Review
1995: Meredith L. Clausen, Spiritual Space: The Religious Architecture of Pietro Belluschi, in Journal of the West
1995: James P. Ronda, Astoria and Empire, in Journal of the West
1994: Ruth Ferris, St. Louis and the Mighty Mississippi in the Steamboat Age: The Collected Writings of Ruth Ferris, in Gateway Heritage, Quarterly Journal of the Missouri Historical Society
1994: Martin Ridge (ed.), History, Frontier, and Section: Three Essays by Frederick Jackson Turner, in Oregon Historical Quarterly
1994: John Mack Faragher, Daniel Boone, Life and Legend of an American Pioneer, in American Historical Review
1993: Bernie Rhodes, with Russel P. Calame, D. B. Cooper, The Real McCoy, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly
1993: Jane Pattie, Cowboy Spurs and their Makers in Southwestern Historical Quarterly
1992: Ruth B. Moynihan, Susan Armitage, and Christiane Fischer Dischamp (eds.), So Much to be Done, Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier in Pacific Northwest Quarterly
1991: Richard W. Slatta, Cowboys of the Americas in Pacific Northwest Quarterly
1990: William H. Goetzmann, Looking at the Land of Promise, Pioneer Images of the Pacific Northwest, in Columbia, Magazine of Northwest History
1989: Grant McConnell, Stehikin, A Valley in Time, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly
1989: David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, and The Tall Tales of Davy Crockett, The Second Nashville Series of Crockett Almanacs, 1839-1841 in New Mexico Historical Review
1988: Robert E. Walls, Bibliography of Washington State Folklore and Folklife in Columbia, Magazine of Northwest History
1988: Fay E. Ward, The Cowboy at Work: All About His Work and How He Does It in Oregon Historical Quarterly
1988: Sam McKinney, Reach of Tide, Ring of History: A Columbia River Voyage, in Pacific Northwest Quarterly
1988: Grady McWhiney, Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South, in Journal of the Early Republic
1987: Michael Lofaro (ed.) Davy Crockett: The Man, The Legend, The Legacy, 1786-1986, in Pacific Historical Review
1985: Carole Simon-Smolonski, Journal 1862: Timothy Nolan’s 1862 Account of His Riverboat and Overland Journey to the Salmon River Mines, Washington Territory in Pacific Northwest Quarterly
2007: “The Fountainhead: The Life, Art, and Anti-Communism of Ayn Rand,” American Architectural Society, Blue Mouse Theatre, Tacoma, WA.
2007: Examination Commentator, Naval War College, Selected Security Year-End Oral Examinations and Presentations, Whidbey Island Naval Air Station
2006: “John Ford Clymer: The Life and Art of a Pacific Northwest Painter and Illustrator,” Curtiss Hill Memorial Lecture, Washington State Historical Society
2004: “Cowboy Culture and Counterculture,” Carroll College Guest Lecturer Series, Helena, Montana.
2003: “Ikua Purdy, Yakima Canutt, and Pete Knight: Continuity and Tradition Among Pacific Basin Rodeo Cowboys,” Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Honolulu, Hawaii
2003: “Wild West Show and Rodeo Images in Popular Culture,” Comment, Western History Association, Fort Worth, Texas
2002: “ ‘I Just Want to Be a Cosmic Cowboy’: The Rodeo Cowboy in Country Rock Music,” Western History Association, Special ProRodeo Hall of Fame Session, Colorado Springs Colorado
1999: “Big Four: Origins of Northwest Rodeo in Pendleton, Walla Walla, Ellensburg, and Lewiston,” Western History Association, Portland, Oregon
1999: “Songs, Now and Then, of the Mississippi Boatmen,” Natchez Literary Conference, Natchez, Mississippi
1999: “Northwest Rodeo and Rodeo Cowboys,” Quarterly Speaker, Fox Island Historical Association, Fox Island, WA
1998: “Hippies and Rodeo Cowboys: The Culture of a Counterculture,” Keynote Address, Nebraska Historical Society Annual Meeting, Valentine, Nebraska, October
1998: “Flatboat Wars and Mississippi Rivermen,” Mississippi Territory Bi-Centennial Conference, Natchez, Mississippi
1997: “Vision, Grace, and Power at Oneida and Zoar,” Comment, Communal Studies Association, Tacoma, WA
1997: “Are Rodeo Cowboys Real Cowboys?,” Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, Portland, OR
1997: “The Emperors Wear No Duds,” Luncheon Address, Missouri Valley Historical Association Meeting, Omaha, NE
1996: “Northwest Rodeo in History and Popular Culture,” Keynote Address, Annual Meeting, Fort Steilacoom Historical Society, Ft. Steilacoom, WA
1995: Comment, “Western Sports and Leisure” Panel, Western History Association, Denver CO
1994: “The Stillbirth of the ‘New’ Western History,” Luncheon Address, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Seattle
1992: “Beyond the ‘Endless Mountains’: The View From the River,” Western History Association, New Haven, CT
1991: “Mabel Strickland: Hall of Fame Cowgirl,” Western History Association, Austin, TX
1991: “King of the River,” Keynote Address, Ohio River Conference, Louisville, KY
1990: “Boatmen’s Castes and Demography,” Front Range Early Americanist Consortium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
1988: “The ‘Flatboat Wars’ Myth and the Civilizing of the Mississippi Boatmen,” Western History Association, Los Angeles, CA
1987: “Law and Order Comes to Memphis,” Keynote Address, Phi Alpha Theta Regional, Spokane, WA
1985: “Western Boatmen: Myths and Other Realities,” Western History Association, Sacramento, CA
1985: “The Folklore of the Mississippi Boatmen,” Pacific Northwest History Conference, Helena, MT
1984: “Big Mike Fink: King of the Keelboatmen,” Pacific Northwest American Studies Association, Pullman, WA
1984: “Mike Fink, Western Boatmen, and the Myth of the Alligator Horse,” Coast Branch, American Historical Association, Seattle, WA
1984: “History, Folklore, and the Western Boatmen,” Society of Historians of the Early American Republic, Indianapolis, IN
Over twenty paper presentations and comments at Phi Alpha Theta International History Society Regional Conferences
2006-present: Department of Education “The American Constitution” Workshops, Wayne State College
2006: Curtiss Hill Memorial Lecturer, Washington State Historical Society
2005: Distinguished Teaching Award, UW Tacoma
2005: Lysander Spooner Award (Laissez Faire Books) for Advancing the Literature of Liberty, for A Patriot’s History of the United States
2004: ASUWT (Associated Students of the University of Washington, Tacoma) President’s Excellence in Leadership and Service Award (First Recipient)
2004, 1997-98: Faculty Member, Bryn Mawr College and Princeton University Summer Program of the Institute for Humane Studies
1993-2004: Seven-time Nominee, UWT Distinguished Teaching Award
1999: Finalist, Spur Award (Western Writers of America)
1994-95: UWT Founders’ Endowment Research Grant
1994: Exchange Professor, Tacoma Community College
1992: Phi Alpha Theta Book Award for Western Rivermen, 1763-1861
1991: F. Leroy Hill Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University
1986: Huntington Library Fellow
1985: Arthur A. Denny Graduate Fellowship
1985: John Pine Memorial Award (Phi Alpha Theta)
1984: Claude R. Lambe Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University
1984: Newberry Library Fellow
1983: Washington Pioneer Daughters Scholarship
1974 & 1976: Phi Alpha Theta International Paper Prize Awards
1974: Honors Graduate, Central Washington State College
The Historical Society
Washington State Historical Society
Pacific Northwest Historians’ Guild
Kittitas County Historical Society
Rodeo History Society (National Cowboy Hall of Fame)
Phi Alpha Theta International History Honorary Society
National Association of Scholars
Founder, Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame Association
2006-7: Program Chair, Pacific Northwest History Conference, Washington State Historical Society
2006-7: Interim Editor, Pacific Northwest Quarterly
2006: Referee, Nevada Historical Quarterly
2005: Referee, University of Nebraska Press
2005: Jurist, National Endowment for the Humanities Grants, Washington DC
2002-present: Judge, Washington State History Day Competition, Central Washington University
2002: Referee, Oregon Historical Quarterly
2002: Referee, Washington State University Press
2001: Local Arrangements and Program Co-Chair, Phi Alpha Theta Northwest Regional, UWT
1999: Local Arrangements Committee, Environmental History Association Conference, Tacoma, March, 2000
1997: Program Committee, Pacific Northwest History Conference
1996-present: Founder and Secretary, Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame Association
1996-97 Manuscript Award Committee, Phi Alpha Theta International
1996: Program Committee, Western History Association, Denver Meeting
1996: Local Arrangements Committee: National Public History Association Meeting, Seattle
1995-present: Occasional Guest Editor, Pacific Northwest Quarterly
1995: Referee, Journal of the Early Republic
1995-present: National Rivers Hall of Fame Nominations Committee
1994, ’98, 2004: Acting Editor, Pacific Northwest Quarterly
1994: Referee, Oregon Historical Quarterly
1993-96: Phi Alpha Theta Paper Prize Committee
1992, 1995: Judge, National History Day Competition
1992-present: Book Review Editor, Pacific Northwest Quarterly
1991-present: Founding Advisor, UWT’s Alpha Zeta Gamma Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta International History Honorary Society
1991-93: Consultant, Mississippi River National Corridor Study (National Parks Service)
1990-present: Commentator, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Student Paper Sessions
1990-present: Board of Editors, Pacific Northwest Forum
1988-90: Consultant, Always A River Project (Ohio Commission for the Humanities)
1987: Referee, Minnesota Historical Society Press
1987: Consultant, Southern Illinois Riverwork Project
1985: Local Arrangements and Program Chair, Phi Alpha Theta Northwest Regional Conference, Seattle, WA.
Administrative
1998-2005: Coordinator, American Studies Concentration
2003-2004: Coordinator, General Studies Concentration
Standing Committees
1997-present: Annual Pie Party Staff Appreciation Chair
2003-present: Outstanding Student Organization and Leader Selection
2003-2006: Gift of Service Awards Selection
2006: Educational Consultant (gratis), UW Tacoma Campus Security Force RAD (Rape Aggression Defense) Course
2006: Chair, Distinguished Teaching Award Committee
2000-2005: Student Conduct Advisory Committee
1998-2005: Next-Step Scholarship Annual Awards
1996-2005: Student & Activity Fees, ASUWT
1995-2005: Admissions and Academic Standards (Chair, ‘96-‘99)
1990-1995: Commencement
1990-95: Student Affairs (Chair 1990-95)
1990-93: Speakers and Programs
Ad Hoc Committees
2006: Tenure and Promotion Member (Dr. Michael Kucher)
2006: Full Professor Promotion Member (Dr. Julie Nicoletta)
2006: Student Life Organizations Director Search
2005-2007: Tenure and Promotion Chair (Dr. Guido Preparata)
2005: Tenure and Promotion Member (Dr. Katie Baird)
2003: Full Professor Promotion Member (Dr. Belinda Louie)
2004: Tenure and Promotion Member (Dr. Joe Sharkey)
2003: Tenure and Promotion Member (Dr. D. J. Parker, Business)
2003: Full Professor Promotion Chair (Dr. Marcy Stein, Education)
2003-present: UWT Honors Program Planning
2002: Chair, Junior Faculty Third-year Review
2001-2002: UWT Legal Education Task Force
2000: Third Year Review Chair (Dr. D. J. Parker)
2000: Economics Search (two concurrent searches)
1998-2000: UWT Founders’ Endowment (Chair)
1999: Tenure and Promotion Chair (Dr. Julie Nicoletta)
1999: Campus Alcohol Policy Task Force
1998: UWS New Faculty Tour
1997: Psychology Search (two concurrent searches)
1996-97: UWT New Campus Grand Opening Planning
1996: All-Campus Conference
1996: Public History Search (Chair)
1996: Museum Studies and Public History Curriculum Planning Group
1995: Annual Review Non-Tenured Nursing, Ed., and Business Faculty
1994: Tenure and Promotion Chair (Dr. David Morris)
1994: Education Certification Search Committee
1993-present: Tenure and Promotion Committees
1993-present: Annual Review of Non-Tenured IAS Faculty Committee
1992: Masters in Education Search Committee
1992-95: Education Liaison
1991: Masters in Education Planning Committee
Other Services
2001-present: Founding Co-Advisor, UWT Pre-Law Society
2002-2005: Founding Advisor, UWT Rodeo Club
1995: Project Director, UWT History Project
1994: Exchange Professor, Tacoma Community College
1990-94: Community College Liaison
1990-94: Fall Orientation Planning
1993: Monuments Symposium speaker
1993-95: Founding Advisor, UWT Independent Student Newspaper
1991: Campus Security Task Force and Security Orientation
1990-95: Student Recruitment: Puyallup Fair, Ethnic Fest, Olympic College, Green River College, Tacoma Community College
1990-present: Founder and Advisor, UWT’s Alpha Zeta Gamma Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta International History Honorary Society
1990-present: Community Outreach Speaker (over thirty public addresses)
1985-present:
Founding Director, Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame
Co-Founder, Kittitas County Heritage Center Association
Den Leader, Cub Scouts of America
Merit Bage Counselor, Boy Scouts of America
Public Schools volunteer
Oldtown Coop Pre-school volunteer
St. Patrick’s Middle School teaching volunteer
Prison Awareness Program (Monroe Prison) Volunteer
Elderhostel
Five-Alive entertainment
United Good Neighbors
Food Bank
Numerous nursing home and other volunteer magic shows
Public Television and Radio Subscriber and Fundraiser
CWU Alumni Association
Ellensburg Rodeo Volunteer
Guest speaker for Rotary, Kiwanis, Friday Club, and other service and business organizations and churches
Amateur magician
Travel
Music (country and rock)
Movies
1968-70: Artillery Sergeant, United States Marine Corps, Vietnam
1970-74: Restaurant Cook
1977-l981: Towboat Deckhand, Oil Tankerman, and Cook on Upper and Lower Mississippi, Illinois, St. Croix, Ouachita, and Arkansas rivers and the Gulf of Mexico.
