AboutAdvisors

Andrew J. Torget is a historian of nineteenth-century North America at the University of North Texas, where he directs the Digital History Lab. The founder and director of numerous digital humanities projects -- including Mapping Texts, Texas Slavery Project, Voting America, and the History Engine.

Jim Bailey of Sunset Productions of Houston, Texas, is an award-winning television and film producer who specializes in educational video programs and television documentaries focusing on Texas history, art and lifestyles. As a 30-year veteran, he has written and produced more than one hundred television and video programs.

Lupita Barrera began her career in field interpretation at Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD). Her first appointment in 2000 was as Mission Manager of Goliad State Park, where she was the lead interpreter. Now she serves as Director of Education and Interpretation at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio, Texas.

Dreanna Belden, Assistant Dean for External Relations, has been with the University of North Texas Libraries since 2003. She holds an MLS from UNT, and her interests include exploring how digital cultural heritage collections can most effectively be used in education, and working with museums, libraries, and archives to place their historic materials online.

Dr. Don E. Carleton has been executive director of The University of Texas at Austin's Dolph Briscoe Center for American History since its creation in 1991. From 1979 until 1991, Dr. Carleton was head of the University's Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center.

Jelain Chubb joined the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in June 2010 as director of the Archives and Information Services Division and Texas state archivist. She oversees the commission’s public service areas: the Texas State Archives, the Reference and Information Center, the Texas Family Heritage Research Center, and the Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center.

Dr. 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.

Elaina Cunningham is the Education Manager at the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon. She plans and implements educational programming for Pre-K – 12th grade students, designs tours for school groups, offers distance learning opportunities and performs outreach to local schools.

Dr. Jesús F. de la Teja is University Distinguished Professor of history and holds a Ph.D. in Latin American History from The University of Texas at Austin. His research interests focus on the northeastern frontier of Spanish colonial Mexico and Texas through the Republic era.

Dr. Lynn Denton, Director of the Public History Program at Texas State University, received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin and is the founding director of the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin.

Roxanne Evans is a graduate of Drake University who has worked for nearly three decades in journalism and more than a decade in public service and politics.

Dr. Caroline Frick is founder and executive director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. She received her MA in Film Archiving and Film History from the University of East Anglia, UK and obtained her PhD in Radio-Television-Film from The University of Texas at Austin.

Chet loves Texas and loves Bar-B-Q, which means he considers his job to be the greatest job on earth. Chet is the creator, executive producer, writer, editor, and host of the three-time Emmy-award winning The Daytripper.

Carlyn Hammons recently changed roles at the Texas Historical Commission. She is now the historian for federal programs in the History Programs Division of the Texas Historical Commission.

Historian and archeologist Kay Hindes has worked as the City Archeologist for the City of San Antonio since 2003. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and has conducted a variety of cultural resource studies.

Dwayne Jones serves as the executive director of the Galveston Historical Foundation, one of the largest not-for-profit historic preservation organizations working at the local level in the country. The organization oversees a wide range of programs, including preservation, help for owners of historic homes, educational projects for children and large-scale public events.

Lisa Kaselak is an independent filmmaker from Austin, Texas. She uses photography and film to express her ideas and thoughts and concerns about social issues. Her first media project, The Twinkie Offense, photographed in large and graphic detail foods that are being marketed to children.

Anne Keene is an author and a governor of Texas appointee to the nine-member Texas Historical Records Advisory Board dedicated to the preservation of the state's archives and documentary heritage.

Janet Mansmann oversees the Social Studies curriculum for the San Antonio Independent School District. She has worked to create innovative programs for SAIDS’s students and teachers, including a partnership with the Institute of Texan Cultures to enhance online learning for teachers.

Joan Marshall, who most recently served as executive director of the Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California is a native Texan with more than 20 years of museum experience. She serves as director of the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum.

Steph McDougal is the founder of McDoux Preservation LLC. McDougal spent more than a decade in sales and marketing before opening a consulting practice in training/education and performance improvement. Since refocusing her consulting practice in 2007, she has developed a broad portfolio of work in historic preservation.

Dr. Fred L. McGhee is a maritime archaeologist and historical anthropologist whose area of expertise encompasses the maritime dimension of the African Diaspora, particularly the role of both African and African-American slave trading in the conquest and colonization of the Americas.

Darcy McNutt serves as the Magnet Texas History Teacher at Kealing Middle School in Austin, Texas. During her first year of teaching she was recognized and given the Teacher of Promise Award from Austin Independent School District.

Kristen McPike teaches fourth grade at Casis Elementary in the Austin Independent School District.

Mary Beth Rogers has worked as a professor, public servant, writer, political organizer, historian, public television CEO and author. She served as deputy treasurer of Texas under Ann Richards, later working as campaign manager for Richard’s 1990 gubernatorial bid.

Peggy D. Rudd served as the Director and Librarian of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission from 1999 to 2013. Prior to her return to her native state of Texas, Ms. Rudd served as Chief of the Bureau of Library Development at the State Library of Florida from 1994 to 1999.

Stephen Sloan is a public historian specializing in twentieth-century U.S. history, the American West, environmental history, and community history. He received a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in history from Baylor, and he earned a doctorate in public history and U.S. history from Arizona State University.