CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Jacqueline M. Moore
 Professor of History
Austin College
900 N. Grand Avenue
Sherman, TX 75090
Office: (903)813-2262

Email:jmoore@austincollege.edu

Teaching fields: United States History since 1877
African American History
East Asian History

The Silk Road
 

BACKGROUND

Education

Ph.D 1994 University of Maryland, College Park, US History

M.A. 1988 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, US History

B.A. 1986 University of Iowa, History Iowa Teacher's Certification, Secondary Education, 1986: World History & American Government

BOOKS

Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Nineteenth Century Masculinity and Class on the Texas Frontier (Forthcoming New York University Press)

 

Teaching the Silk Road: Reflections and Pedagogical Essays for College Teachers  Co-edited with Rebecca Woodward Wendelken. (Forthcoming SUNY Press)          

 

Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2003.

 

Leading the Race: The Transformation of the Black Elite in the Nation's Capital, 1880-1920, Charlottesville, VA: University  Press of Virginia, 1999.

 

Co-editor of the African American History Series (Scholarly Resources 2002-2004, Rowman & Littlefield 2004-present)


RECENT PAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS

Review of Bridging Race Divides: Black Nataionalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935, by Kate Dossett for Social History (forthcoming 2009)

 

Chair and Comment for panel, “Masculinity In Nineteenth Century America,” Mid-America Conference on History, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO, September 25-27, 2008.

 

“Cow Boys, Cattle Men, and Competing Masculinities on the Texas Frontier” for international conference “What is Masculinity? How Useful is it as a Historical Category?”  May 15-16, 2008, Birkbeck College, University of London.

 

“Beyond Marco Polo: Medieval Silk Road Travel Accounts in the Classroom” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 8-11, 2008 Kalamazoo, MI.

 

Review of The Paper Bag Principle by Audrey Elisa Kerr, 74, no. 1(February 2008): 222-23.

 

“Cow Boys vs. Cattle Men: Restraining Masculinity on the Texas Frontier,” November 14, 2007, Clements Center Lecture Series, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas

Review of A Black Congressman in the Age of Jim Crow by John F. Marszalek, for the Journal of American History 94, no. 2(September 2007): 571-72.

"Using Primary Documents to Teach the Silk Road" ASIANetwork Annual Meeting, Lisle, Illinois, April 20-22, 2007

Chair, "Jim Crow and Progressivism" panel at American Historical Association Annual Meeting,  Philadelphia, 2006

Review of Manning the Race, by Marlon B. Ross,  American Historical Review  (Feb. 2006): 211-12.

"Black Nationalism"  featured speaker at Race and the Humanities, Undergraduate Research Conference, Austin College, April 2005

"Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, the Road to Conflict" Fall 2004 Burress Lecture,  Howard Payne University, November, 2004.

Review of The New Politics of Race: From Du Bois to the 21st Century, Marlese Durr, ed. Journal of American Ethnic History 23, 3(Spring 2004):134-35.

Review of Bargaining With the State From Afar: American Citizenship in Treaty Port China, by Eileen P. Scully  American Historical Review, 108, 1(Feb. 2003): 175.

Anna Julia Cooper (1859-1964): Educator, Clubwoman, and Feminist" in Portraits of African American Life Since 1865,  Nina Mjagkij, ed., Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources, 2003.

Works in Progress

“Cow Boys vs. Cattle Men: Restraining Masculinity on the Texas Frontier” scholarly article in draft stage

A Beginner's Guide to the Silk Road (manuscript in planning stages)

"Black History as an Alternative Strategy for Racial Uplift Among the Washington Black Elite," article

Awards and Honors

 Austin College Humanities Division Award for Scholarship, 2008, 2003

 

2007-2008 Summerlee Foundation Research Fellow for the Study of Texas History at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

 

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) Nominating Committee, 2007 to Present

 

Participant in 2006 NEH Summer Institute, The Silk Road: Early Globalization and Chinese Cultural Identity

 

Humanities Division Award for Service, 2006

 

Student Assembly Faculty Member of the Month, January 2005, April 2002, November 1999

           

CASE Professor of the Year, Austin College nominee 2005

 

Governing Council, SHGAPE 2005-2009

Participant in the East West Center Asian Studies Development Program's 2002 Summer Institute for Infusing Southeast Asian Studies Into the Undergraduate Curriculum.

Chair, Article Prize Committee, SHGAPE, 2002-2006

Chair, Editorial Board of H-SHGAPE (Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era) List Serv, 1999 to present

Selection Committee, James Madison Fellowship, 1999, 2000

Memberships and Community Activities

Organization of American Historians

Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

League of Women Voters, Membership Chair, 1997 to 2003
                                             Recording Secretary 2005 to 2007

Sherman Musical Arts Singers, 1998 to present

Future Research Interests

Masculinity in the American West

The Silk Road

Civil Rights Movement

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