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Jensen Branscombe |
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| Jensen holds a BA from the University of Georgia and an MA from the University of Alabama. She completed her dissertation at TCU in 2013. Her dissertation is titled,“Clamping the Lid on the Melting Pot: The Immigration Act of 1965 and Enforcement Along the U.S.-Mexico Border,” and she has teaching fields in Modern U.S., early U.S., women’s history, and Modern Latin America, with concentrations in U.S.immigration history, women and immigration, and the U.S. borderlands. She is currently Assistant Professor in the History Department at Tarleton State University. |  |
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Jeff Wells |
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| Jeff holds a BA from Missouri Southern University and an MA from Missouri State. He completed his PhD at TCU in 2014. His issertation is titled, “The Reform Press: The Journalists of the Farmers’ Alliance and People’s Party,” and he has teaching fields in US History, Colonial Latin America, and Military History, with concentrations in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, Journalism History, and Digitial Humanities. He is currently associate professor at the University of Nebraska - Kearney. |  |
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LeAnna Schooley |
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LeAnna holds a BA in History and Museum Studies from Baylor and an MA in Architectural Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her disseration titled "Sightseeing in Texas, 1836-1916" in May 2017. It examines the history of heritage tourism in the Lone Star State. She is now the executive director of the Center For Texas Studies at TCU. |
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Brennan Gardner Rivas |
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Brennan holds a BA from Oklahoma State Univeristy and an MA from TCU, where she wrote her thesis on the topic, "Texas Antitrust Law: Formulation and Enforcement, 1889-1903." She successfully defended her dissertation, "The Deadly Weapon Laws of Texas: Regulating Guns, Knives, and Knuckles in the Lone Star State, 1836-1930," in April 2019. She is currently a lecturer in the TCU History Department. . |
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Michael Green |
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Michael holds a bachelor's degree from Texas A&M-Commerce and a master's from TCU. His dissertation explores the history of Texas's State Supported Living Centers for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through the lens of the landmark |
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Bobby Oliver |
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Bobby holds a BS from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is completed a master's thesis titled, "Texas Ballot Reform: The Adoption of Voter Registration and the Australian Ballot System, 1887-1892" in 2015. He was recently admitted to PhD candidacy and is begininng work on a dissertation dealing with the origins of the local whites-only primary in Texas. |
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Andrew Klooster |
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Andrew holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Texas at El Paso. He has been admitted to PhD candidacy and is working on a dissertation examining the social, cultural, and political history of El Paso in the Progressive Era.
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