Speakers Directory
Presentations by Speaker
University of Houston-Downtown
- Besides Hughes: Other Facets of Harlem Renaissance Poetry
- Natural Selection and the Human Love of Poetry
- Robert Frost as a Love Poet
- Talking Poetry: Slam and the Spoken Word Renaissance
- Thoroughly Modern Millay
- What's Love Got to Do with Poetry?
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
- A Celebration of Life: The Day of the Dead in Oaxaca
- The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful: Collecting Mexican Folk Art in Texas
Independent Scholar
- An Image-Maker from Texas: Woman Artist Gordon Conway Celebrates the Jazz Age
- A New Look for a New Woman: The Designs and Times of Gordon Conway
The University of Texas at San Antonio
- A Chautauqua Experience: An Evening with Senator Sam Houston
- A High Adventure in Cultural Awareness
Texas A&M University
- The Rise of a Border Society in Texas, 1700–1865
- Hispanic Texas in the Twentieth Century
Human Flower Project
- Why We Fell in Love with Folk Art
- White Roses for the Bride, Red Begonias for the Dictator
Texas State University
- Islam for Beginners
- Understanding the Arabs
- The Role of Women on the Arabian Peninsula
- Cultural Change Along the U.S.-Mexico Border
- Agrarian Reform and Social Change in Mexico
University of St. Thomas Houston
- Mestizo Democracy: Cultivating Unity in Diversity
- The Impact of Popular Religion on U.S. Culture, Politics, and Spirituality
The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
- Chicano Literature of the Tejano Borderlands
- La Quinceañera and Other Latina Life-Cycle Markers
Independent Scholar
- Slam Dunking the Moment
- Jump for Joy: Jump Blues, Jump Shots, the Jitterbug, and American Culture
The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
- The Human Side of Health Care
- Medical Ethics Inside Out
Sam Houston State University
- Evangelism and the Related Occupation of Coaching Football in Texas
The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
- A Brave and Wonderful Thing: The Freedom Rides
- Bleeding Red: Baseball and Fandom
- At Any Cost: Global Terrorism
- We Will Not Ride: Civil Rights in the United States and South Africa
- The Tragedy and Promise of Modern Africa
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Ethical and Spiritual Issues in End-of-Life Care
- The Strange Demise of Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Houston and the Life of Civil Rights Leader Eldrewey Stearns
Sam Houston State University
- Hispanics in Early Texas
- Religious Controversies in Seventeenth-Century Rhode Island: The Story of Samuel Gorton of Warwick, Rhode Island
- History by Dilemma
Texas State University
- Spanish Texas: A Historical Legacy
- The First Texas War of Independence
- Teaching Texas History in the Twenty-First Century
Texas A&M International University
- Fiction and Women’s Media Activism in Iran
- The Myth of the Assassins and the Rise of Ismaili Shiites in Medieval Iran
Independent Scholar
- A History of the Lady in Blue of the American Southwest
- Jumano Native Americans: Extinct or Emerging in West Texas?
- Sung and Unsung Tales of Colonial Mission History in Texas and the Southwest
Independent Scholar
- Border Radio
- Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters
- The Milling Brothers: Texas “Outlaw” Medicine Men
- Texas Medicine Show
The University of Texas at Austin
- Texas Films: The Awful Truth
- The Movie Giant as the Archetypal Texas Film: A Study in Gender, Race, and History
University of North Texas
- The Big Thicket: Ecology and a Philosophy of Value
- Frontier Mentality and the New World of Texas: Time for a New Ethics?
Texas A&M University-Commerce
- John Boles (1895–1969): Forgotten Texas Hollywood Matinee Idol
- Hymie Lichenstein: The Texas Mighty Atom
- "Mean Enough": Velma Patterson’s Sensational 1936 Hunt County Murder Trial
Schreiner University
- Belle Starr
- Women and Texas Music
- Telling Stories, Singing Songs
- Past Is Prologue: A Way of Learning
- The Power of Stories
- Jimmie Rodgers and Texas Music
Texas Black History Preservation Project
- The History of Black College Football
- Why Historically Black Colleges?
- African Americans and the U.S. Military
Texas A&M International University
- “It Might Happen, It Might Happen”: How Communities Cope with Catastrophe
- Places of Knowing, Territories of Time: The Importance of Place Attachment in Development and Change
Independent Scholar
- African American Fraternal, Social, and Civic Organizations
- Juneteenth: Its Meaning
- It’s in Our History: You Will Succeed
- Texas: This Land Is Ours
Tyler Junior College
- Understanding Islam and Muslims: New Challenges for the American Educational System
- Millennials: Reaching and Teaching Digital Natives With Web 2.0
University of the Incarnate Word
- Ancient Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Women's Stories: Contemporary Wisdom and Compassion
Stephen F. Austin State University
- Zebras, Brains, and Fingerprints: How Prenatal Hormones Shape the Human Brain
Richland College
- Like Dried Blossoms in the Wind: Images of Nineteenth-Century Western Woman
- Rural Texas Women at Work
Independent Scholar
- The History of Glassblowing in America: Negation and Assimilation of Technique
- Dale Chihuly: Early Influences and Recent Projects
- Dale Chihuly as Artist and Collector
The University of Texas at El Paso
- Crossing the Line: Mexican Children on the Texas-Mexico Border in the Early Twentieth Century
- Por la Raza y Para la Raza: The History of Mexican American Women’s Activism in Texas
- Recovering Neighborhood History
Austin College
- Visit Texas in 1835 with Dr. Gideon Lincecum
- Dr. Gideon's Medicine Chest: Nineteenth-Century Ills and Remedies
- Telling Our Stories: A Proven System to Write Your Autobiography or Family History
Texas Research Consultants
- Oral History: Preserving the Voices of Our Past
- Rediscovering Local History
Stephen F. Austin State University
- Back Then: Simple Pleasures and Everyday Heroes
- Tunes of the Times: A Musical Program
- Wedges of Separation
The University of Texas at Brownsville
- Los del Valle Oral History Series
- In Body and Mind/En Cuerpo y Mente
Trinity University
- Guns and Butter: World War II and the Development of Texas
- Why the Suburban is the State Car of Texas
Dallas Heritage Village/Dallas County Heritage Society
- "Unite with the Husband to Build Up a Home": Victorian Homemaking on the Wild Frontier
- The Trial of Toy Woolley: A Depression Drama of Love, Money, and Murder
- Courting Consumers: Teaching the Ladies of Dallas to Shop
The Texana Foundation
- German Settlement of the Texas Hill Country
- La Junta de los Rios
Independent Scholar
- Texas Music 101: At the Crossroads
- Mexican American Music in Texas
- The Rise of the Austin Music Scene: 1950 to Today
- Why Texans are Texans: What Makes Us Different from Everywhere Else?
- The Drives of Texas
- Selena: The Queen of Tejano
- Stevie Ray Vaughan: Dallas Rock, Austin Blues, and the Life and Times of the Last Great Blues Guitarist
- The Borderlands of Texas
- Wild Texas
- The High Plains
- The Brush Country
- The Texas Hill Country
- The Big Bend
Dallas Heritage Village
- Picturing the Texan Utopia: Texas Centennial Postcards
- The Hectic Flush: The Fiction and Reality of Consumption
- A Larger Housekeeping: Dallas Clubwomen and World War I
- Don't Mess with Texas Women
University of Houston
- New Perspectives on Teaching Texas History
- El Centenario: Mexican Independence Day Celebrations in the American Southwest
The University of Texas at Dallas
- The Fate of the Great Western Novel
- Literary Worth: Assessments of Artistic Measures
- Garbage In, Garbage Out
- The Role of the Writer in the Academy
- The Novel in America
- Selected Readings with Discussion
- The Role of Irony in the Distinction between Wit and Wisdom
Southern Methodist University
- There's No Crying in Baseball But There Are Lots of Laughs: A Look at the Humor of the National Pastime
- Great Baseball Books: A Look at Baseball Historiography and Baseball Literature
- Baseball in the Depression: Making a Silk Purse Out of a Sow's Ear
- The Post-War Baseball Renaissance: Baseball's Golden Decade
- Passing the Light: How Elderwisdom Shapes the Future of Families
Texas Christian University
- Texas Farm Women: Their Lives, Their Words
- Cooking and Southern Women: A History
Texas A&M University
- Archaeology, Science and Interdisciplinary Research
- “Everything You Can Imagine Is Real”
- An Ocean of Opportunities
Texas A&M International University
- Defending the Mexican Name in Texas: The Life and Times of Juan Nepomuceno Cortina
- Mexican Texans in the Civil War
El Paso Museum of Archaeology
- Mimbres Mythology: The Warrior Twins
- Mesoamerican and Southwestern Venus: Duality and Warfare
- Scarlet Macaws: Sunbirds of the Southwest
Independent Scholar
- Lone Star La-la: Texas and Zydeco Music
- Texas Blues and Its Impact on Popular Culture
Questions
Call 512.440.1991 or email speakers@humanitiestexas.org.
Speakers Directory member Rebecca Sharpless, assistant professor of history at Texas Christian University.
Speakers Directory member Norma E. Cantú, professor of English and U.S. Latina/o Literature at The University of Texas at San Antonio.