Faculty and Staff

Dr. Ken Heineman

Department Head and Professor of History
Office: A 210B
Phone: (325) 942-2113
Curriculum Vitae

Education
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
M.A., University of Pittsburgh
B.A., Michigan State University

Areas of Specialization 
United States social and political history in the 20th century; American immigration; urban, labor and religious history; social movements

Courses Taught
U.S. history surveys, Gilded Age-Progressive-Era America, New Deal-Era America, Cold War-America, the U.S. in the 1960s, the U.S. and the Vietnam War, U.S. urban history

Research interests 
American religious and social movements in the 1930s, Civil War-era military, social and political history with a particular interest in the Old Northwest

Sally D. Turner

Office Coordinator II
Office: A 210
Phone: (325) 942-2324

Dr. Arnoldo DeLeón

Professor of History
Office: A 210F
Phone: (325) 942-2120
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Education
Ph.D., Texas Christian University
M.A., Texas Christian University
B.A., Angelo State University

Areas of Specialization
Mexican-Americans, history of Texas, Latin American history

Courses Taught
U.S. history surveys, History 3362 (The Mexican-American in American History), History 3301 and 6301 (Texas History), History 4350 (Themes in U.S. History)

Research Interests
Mexican-Americans in the United States, Texas historiography, Texas minority groups

Dr. David P. Dewar

Assistant Professor of History
Office: A 110G
Phone: (325) 942-2157
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Ph.D., University of Kansas
M.A., Northeastern Illinois University
B.S., Northern Illinois University

Areas of Specialization
Colonial and early national America, Trans-Appalachian West, early fur trade

Courses Taught
U.S. history surveys, History 2373 (Historical Writing), History 3302 (American Colonial History), History 6321 (Early American History)

Syllabuses
History 1301 US to 1865
History 1302 US since 1865
History 3302 Colonial America
History 3310 US Constitutional History

Research Interests 
Colonial and early national American social history, the Trans-Appalachian West, early fur trade

Dr. Charles Endress

Professor of History
Office: A 104A
Phone: (325) 942-2115
More about Dr. Endress

Education
Ph.D., Tulane University
M.A., Tulane University
B.A., Vanderbilt University

Areas of Specialization
Military history, western civilization, Greek and Roman civilization, Russian history, 19th and 20th century European history, historiography

Courses Taught
History 2331/2332 (History of Western Civilization), History 3331 (Classical Civilizations, Greece and Rome), History 6333 (Recent European History Since 1918), History 4336 (Age of Nationalism: Europe, 1850-1918), History 4341 (History of Russia), History 4361 (Topics in Military History), History 6364 (Topics in U.S. National Security Policy), History 6373 (Historiography and Research)

Research Interests
French military history of the Napoleonic Era, World War I

Dr. Shirley Eoff

Professor of History and
Director of the Honors Program
Office: A 001B
Phone: (325) 942-2203
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Education
Ph.D., Texas Tech University
M.A., Hardin-Simmons University
B.A., Howard Payne University

Areas of Specialization
Modern America, modern Britain, modern Europe, U.S. diplomatic history, U.S. social/cultural history, historiography

Courses Taught
U.S. history surveys, History 3340 (English History to 1714), History 3341 (English History After 1714), History 4304 (Contemporary America, 1945 to Present), History 4333 (Recent European History Since 1918), History 6373 (Historiography and Research), History 6381 (Special Topics), History 6327 (Modern America)

Research Interests
San Angelo’s polio epidemic, West Texas women’s philanthropy

Dr. James Hindman

Professor of History and President Emeritus
Office: A 210E
Phone: (325) 942-2118
More about Dr. Hindman

Education
Ph.D., Texas Tech University
M.A., Texas Tech University
B.A., Texas Tech University

Areas of Specialization
Late 19th- and 20th-century U.S. history, American foreign policy, U.S.-Mexico relations

Courses Taught
U.S. history surveys, History 3306 (Emergence of Modern America), History 4303 (Normalcy, Depression and the New Deal), History 4324 (Sport in American History), History 6323 (Mid 19th Century American History)

Research Interests
The 1930s, the United States and wars (hot and cold) in the 20th century, sports in American history

Dr. John Eusebio Klingemann

Assistant Professor of History
Office: A 210C
Phone: (325) 942-2114
More about Dr. Klingemann

Education
Ph.D., University of Arizona
M.A., Sul Ross State University
B.A., Sul Ross State University

Areas of Specialization
Latin American history, modern Mexico, the United States-Mexico Border

Courses Taught 
U.S. history surveys, History 3335 (Latin American History), History 4351 (Mexico Since Independence), History 4360 (U.S.-Mexico Border)

Research Interests
Social movements in the 20th century, movements in northern Mexico and Villismo, Mexico’s Revolution of 1910 in Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango

Dr. Brian D. McKnight

Assistant Professor of History
Office: A 210A
Phone: (325) 942-2112
Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Ph.D., Mississippi State University
M.A., East Tennessee State University
B.A., University of Virginia’s College at Wise

Areas of Specialization
Civil War and Reconstruction, the South, the National Republic

Courses Taught
U.S. history Surveys, History 3305 (Civil War and Reconstruction), History 4330 (The South), History 2373 (Historical Writing), History 6323 (Mid 19th Century American History), History 3303 (The Young Republic)

Syllabuses
History 1301 US to 1865
History 4320 American South

Research Interests    
Irregular warfare, contested loyalties

Dr. Dennis E. Pate

Professor of History
Office: A 210H
Phone: (325) 942-2202
More about Dr. Pate

Education
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles
M.A., University of California at Los Angeles
B.A., San Jose State University

Areas of Specialization
Renaissance and reformation, Tudor and Stuart England, early modern Europe, modern European social and intellectual developments

Courses Taught
U.S. history surveys, History 2331/2332 (History of Western Civilization), History 3335 (Renaissance and Reformation), History 3336 (Absolutisms and Enlightenment: Europe 1648-1788), History 4330 (The Middle Ages), History 4335 (Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1850), History 6363 (World War II)

Research Interest
British aristocracy since 1815

Dr. Jason Pierce

Assistant Professor of History
Office: A 104C
Phone: (325) 942-2199
Curriculum Vitae

Education
Ph.D., University of Arkansas
M.A., Portland State University
B.A., Fort Lewis College

Areas of Specialization 
American West, Native American and American environmental history

Courses Taught
U.S. history surveys, History 4302 (The American West), History 4325 (Indians of North America)

Syllabus
History 1302 US since 1865

Research Interests
History of race in the American West, environment issues in the American West

Dr. R. Gary Pumphrey

Assistant Professor of Geography
Office: A 210G
Phone: (325) 942-2201
More about Dr. Pumphrey

Education
Ph.D., Texas Tech University
M.S., Texas Tech University
B.G.S., Texas Tech University

Areas of Specialization
Water resources in arid and semi-arid climates, water conservation, municipal water policy, market versus regulatory approaches to municipal water conservation, consumer attitudes toward water as a resource, human-water resource interactions, the Ogallala aquifer

Courses Taught
Geography 3305 (Geography for Educators), Geography 2301/1301 (Physical Geography), Geography 3302 (Human Geography), Geography 3303 (World Regional Geography), Geography 3304 (Regional Geography of North America)

Dr. Guoqiang Zheng

Associate Professor of History
Office: A 210D
Phone: (325) 942-2227
More about Dr. Zheng

Education
Ph.D., University of Toledo
M.A., Tianjin Normal University
B.A., Tianjin Normal University

Areas of Specialization
Modern Asia, world history, ancient and modern China, Asian-American relations, international relations

Courses Taught
U.S. history surveys, History 3370 (East Asia to 1800), History 3371 (East Asia Since 1800), History 4340 (World History Since 1945), History 4362 (Topics in Asian History), History 6340 (Topics in World History)

Research Interests
International relations; history of Sino-American political, cultural and economic relations; comparative history of East and West; modern Tibet

Mark Lesosky

Part-Time Instructor