Cummins 2006 Minnie Stevens Piper Professor
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Light T. Cummins holds the Guy M. Bryan Chair of American History at Austin College, where he is a Professor of History and has been a member of the faculty since 1978. A native Texan, he received his Bachellor's and Master's degress from Southwest Texas State University, now known as Texas State University, where he has received a Texas State University Alumni Achievement Award. After serving as an officer in the United States Air Force, he received a Ph.D. from Tulane University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to Spain. His wife, Victoria Hennessey Cummins, is also a Professor of History at Austin College, where she specializes in the colonial history of Latin America.
Cummins is interested in
late 18th and early 19th century Louisiana, Texas, and the Gulf Coast,
especially the Anglo-American migration into these areas during and
after the American Revolution.
Among his publications are A
Guide to the History of Louisiana (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982,) A
Guide to the History of Texas
(Westport,
CT: Greenwood Press, 1988,) Spanish
Observers in the
American Revolution (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press,
1992), Louisiana:
A History (Chicago: Harlan Davidson,)
Austin College: A Sesquicentennial History
(Austin: Eakin Press, 1999,) and several dozen articles in various
historical journals.
His latest book, United States History to 1877, is a
textbook for
college survey and Advanced Placement courses.
He currently has a
contract with the TCU Press
to
research and write a biography of Emily Austin Bryan Perry, the
daughter of Moses Austin and the sister of Stephen F. Austin. To
read short biography of Emily Austin Bryan Perry by Cummins, click Here.
He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Texas Council for the Humanities, now known as Humanities Texas, and of the Louisiana Historical Association. Cummins is a lifetime fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association.
Cummins is the co-director
of the Austin College Center for Southwestern and Mexican Studies.
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Here for more information about the center.
For a copy of Light
Cummins' c.v.,
click
Here . For a copy of a short biography of him, click
This page last updated on
October 25,
2007
