Deborah M. Liles, Ph.D
Curriculum Vitae
498 Sosebee Bend Road, Weatherford, Texas, 76088. (817)
Education:
University of North Texas.Ph.D. August 2013.Dissertation: “Southern Roots, Western Foundations: The Peculiar Institution and the Livestock Industry on the Northwestern Frontier of Texas, 1846-1864."Areas of study: Texas, Mexico, 20th Century U.S., and Local.Committee members: Richard B. McCaslin, Randolph B. Campbell, Aaron Navarro, Todd Moye, and Ian Finseth.
University of North Texas, M.A. (History) May2008.
Thesis: “Wyatt Cephas Hedrick: Builder of Cities.”
Areas of study: Texas, Southern Plains Indians, and Mexican-American history. Committee members: Richard B. McCaslin, Randolph B. Campbell, and F. Todd Smith.
Columbia College, B.A. July 2006.
Weatherford College, A.A. May 2005.
Work History with University of North Texas 2007-Present:
Contact information.Department of History (940) 565-2288
Classes taught:
2610 American history survey to 1865 (online and traditional).
2620 American history survey after 1864 (online and traditional).
4261 Local history: Murder, Money, and Mystery.
4261 Local history: Rough and Rowdy Cowboys on the Frontier.
4260 Gold, Silver, and Settlement in the Americas
4900 Texas History Research
5900.721 Special Problems Class: North American Mining Frontiers.
Classes prepared to teach—under graduate or graduate level:
Texas History.
Texas, Mexico, and the United States: 1810 to 1836.
Texas, Mexico, and the United States: 1836 to 1861.
Texas Women.
Texas Indians.
Slavery in Texas: 1821 to 1865.
African American history in Texas.
Agriculture and Industry in Texas.
The Civil War in the West.
Women and the West.
Jackson to Lincoln: 1828 to 1861.
Slavery in the Americas.
Service:
2018 Program Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2017 Hiring committee for Communications Department. UNT.
2017, 2018 Program Committee, Central Texas Historical Association.
2017 Board Member for the East Texas Historical Association.
2017 Terry Preservation Committee, East Texas Historical Association.
2016 C.K. Chamberlain Award Committee, East Texas Historical Association.
2016-2017 Ottis Lock Committee, East Texas Historical Association.
2016-present. Executive Advisory Committee Member for Handbook of Texas Women’s History project.
2016 Women Ranchers in Texas symposium organizer with Leland Turner and Cecilia Venable.
2016 Manuscript review for Wayne Ludwig, The Chisholm Trail, for Texas A&M Press.
2016 Program Committee, Texas State Historical Association.
2016 Program Committee, East Texas Historical Association.
2016 Program Committee, West Texas Historical Association.
2016 Book Editor for Journal of the Central Texas Historical Association.
Fall 2015. Master’s committee member for Erin Darity.
2015-2016 Committee member, Parker County Cemetery Association.
2015 Local Arrangements Committee for Texas State Historical Association.
2015 Program Committee, West Texas Historical Association.
2014-2017 Membership Committee for the East Texas Historical Association.
2014. Texas History Day regional representative for Texas State Historical Association.
2013-2015. Webb Society Sponsor for UNT Department of History.
2014-2015 Liz Carpenter Award Committee for the Texas State Historical Association.
2014Manuscript review of Vicki Adams Tongate’s Transcendent Ties: A Northern Girl’s Sojourn in Confederate Texas for University of Texas Press.
2014 C. K. Chamberlain Award Committee. East Texas Historical Association.
2013 Peer review for the East Texas Historical Association Journal
2014-2017.Gil Samples Award Committee. University of North Texas.
2014-2016 President of the Women’s Breakfast Group.East Texas Historical Association.
2013-2014 Secretary of the Women’s Breakfast Group.East Texas Historical Association.
Spring 2010 Graduate representative on Search Committee for new professor of Texas history.
Texas History Conference, Spring 2009 and 2010.
TECOM, Fall 2008, 2009, 2010, 2014.
NACCS Conference 2008.
Conference Papers, Addresses, and Invited Speeches:
January 2018. “Unlikely Connections: Texas Cattle, California Gold, and Slavery in Antebellum Texas.”Allen Public Library by request.
February 2018. “The Myth of Oliver Loving.” Fort Worth Westerners by request.
October 2017. “Texas Cattle and California Gold.” 21st Annual Alton C. Allen Historical Conference. Hallettsville, Texas.
September 2017. “Saddle Politics on the Texas Frontier.” Texas Political History Conference, Tarleton University, Stephenville, Texas.
June 2017. “Cattle, Defense, and Railroads in Texas.” Speaker for Humanities Texas.
June 2017: “Wyatt C. Hedrick, the New Deal, and Will Rogers Coliseum of Fort Worth, Texas,” Texas New Deal Symposium, Dallas.
May 2017. Speaker for dedication of Oliver Loving state marker. Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.
March 2017: “Oliver Loving, Dean of the Texas Trails,” Texas State Historical Association
October 2016: “Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi,” Chair, East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches.
October 2016: “Wyatt C. Hedrick, the New Deal, and Will Rogers Coliseum of Fort Worth, Texas,” East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches.
October 2016: "Before Freedom Came: Slaves and the Livestock industry in Texas." West Texas Historical Association.
June 2016: “Martha Landers Loring Moore: An Unlikely Woman on the Texas Frontier.” Women Ranchers in Texas symposium. East Texas Historical Association.
April 2016:"Before Freedom Came: Slaves and the Livestock industry in Texas." West Texas Historical Association.
April 2016:“Cattle, Sheep, and Wildlife Management,” Chair.West Texas Historical Association.
April 2016: “Southern Roots, Western Foundations: Slavery and the Cattle Industry in Antebellum Texas.” Central Texas Historical Association’s Spring Symposium.
March 2016: “Slaves in the Texas Livestock Industry,” Southwestern Social Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada.
March 2016: Session chair, “Window into 1850s Frontier Texas on the Brazos: A Bilingual Educator in a Unique Setting, The Paradox of the Indian Reservations, and a Historic Pioneer Family,” Texas State Historical Association, Irving, Texas.
February 2016: Session chair. “Formidable Texas Women,” East Texas Historical Association, Beaumont, Texas.
October 2015: Roundtable participant, “Why Rural History Matters; An East Texas Rural History Roundtable,” East Texas historical Association.
October 2015: Session chair, “East Texas Agriculture: The People, the Land, the Literature,” East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.
October 2015:"The Gold Rush, Livestock, and Slavery in Denton County, 1846-1865." By invitation for the Frisco Heritage Museum.
July 2015. “Black Slaves in the Texas Cattle Industry.” By invitation for the Marvin Dulaney Western Heritage Symposium, Fort Worth.
April 2015: “In the Absence of Cotton: Slaves in the Livestock Industry." For Cotton and Rural History Conference, Greenville.
April 2015:“Capitalism in the 1850s along the Northwestern Frontier of Texas,” West Texas Historical Association, Wichita Falls.
March 2015: “Women on the Southern Frontier of Texas during the Civil War.” By invitation for the South Texas Historical Association, Kingsville, Texas.
October 2014:“Cowboys, Indians, and Capitalism on the Northwestern Frontier of Texas.” Paper for the East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.
August 2014: “Will Rogers Coliseum.” By invitation for Fort Worth Aerospace Optimist Club.
August 2014:“Southern Roots, Western Foundations: Parker County, Texas, 1856-1864,” By invitation for the Parker County Historical Association.
April 2014: “Slave Holders and Wealth in Northwestern Antebellum Texas – Not the Traditional Interpretation.” Paper for the Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas.
April 2014: “Southern Roots, Western Foundations: Cattle, Slaves, and
Cattle Drives from Stephens County, Texas.” Paper for the West Texas Historical Association, Odessa, Texas.
March 2014:“Southern Roots, Western Foundations: The Peculiar Institution, Cattle, and the Northwestern Frontier.” Paper for the Texas State Historical Association Conference in San Antonio.
February 2014: “Not your Typical Southern Belle.” Paper for the East Texas Historical Association Spring Conference, Emory, Texas.
April 2013: “Southern Roots, Western Foundations: A Comparison in the Development of Slavery and Cattle in East and West Texas.” West Texas Historical Association Conference, Wichita Falls, Texas.
March 2013: “Will Rogers Coliseum.” By invitation for the Billy W. Sills Center for Archives, Fort Worth.
March 2013:“Southern Roots, Western Foundations: Stephens County, Texas, Cattle Barons, and Slave Ownership.” UNT History Conference, Denton, Texas.
February 2013: “A War of Her Own:Women on the Frontier of Northwest Texas During the Civil War.” Women’s Panel for the East Texas Historical Association, Galveston, Texas.
October 2012: “Will Rogers Coliseum.” By invitation to Tarrant County Historical Association.
October 2012: “Uncontested Ground: The Northwestern Frontier of Texas, 1846-1855.” By invitation for the “Quanah and Cynthia Ann Parker Pictorial Exhibit,” at Fort Worth Central Library.
September 2012:“Southern Roots, Western Foundations: A comparison of the establishment and success of slavery and the cattle industry in Johnson and Liberty counties.” East Texas Historical Association Conference, Nacogdoches, Texas.
September 2012:Moderator for “The History and Growth of Digital Collections” panel, Digital Frontiers, Denton.
September 2012:“The Portal to Texas History and Research for Graduate Students.” Presenter at VIP Pre-conference event for Digital Frontiers, Denton.
August 2012: “The Digital Stephen F. Austin Papers:Teaching the History of Texas Using Digital Innovations.” For Texas State Historical Association’s Exploring Texas Workshop Series.
July 2012:“Will Rogers Coliseum and Auditorium,” By invitation to Fort Worth Rotary Club.
March 2012:“Uncontested Ground: The Northwestern Frontier of Texas, 1846-1855.West Texas Historical Association Conference, Alpine, Texas.
October 2011: “The Digital version of Texas during the Stephen F. Austin Era: How Digital Mapping Creates New Perspectives in History.” Paper for Association for Documentary Editing’s 33rd national meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah.
September 2011:“Southern versus Western: Slavery’s Role in the Establishment of Northwestern Texas.”Paper for the Mid-America History Conference, Norman, Oklahoma.
March 2011: “By the Ways of the South: How Slavery Shaped Two Counties in Northwestern Texas.” Paper given at Texas State Historical Association Conference, El Paso, Texas.
November 2010: “Conducting, Preserving, and Using Oral History from Small Communities.” Invited presentation to Parker County Heritage Society, Weatherford, Texas.
April 10, 2010: “Inventing the Past: How Historiography Contributes to Deceptions in Small Communities.”Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Abilene, Texas.
January 2010: “Slavery in Parker County, Texas – How Southern Ideals Shaped the Western County.” North Texas Historical Society, by invitation, Weatherford, Texas.
September 2009: “Wyatt C. Hedrick: Architect of Texas;the 1920s and 1930s.” Southwest/TexasPCA/ACA, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
August 10, 2009: “Wyatt C. Hedrick: Architect of Texas,” by invitation at the Pacific Historical Conference, Albuquerque N.M.
April 2009: “Wyatt C. Hedrick: Architect of Texas” Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, Denton, Texas.Winner of Best Graduate Paper of conference.
Published Work:
Book Reviews:
Review of Catherine Clinton, Stepdaughters of History for Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. Spring 2018
Review of Jesus Frank de la Teja, ed., Lone Star Unionism, Dissent and Resistance: Other Sides of the Civil Warfor Panhandle-Plains Historical Review. Winter, 2017.
Review of Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, Sweet Freedom’s Plains: African Americans on the Overland Trails, 1841-1869, for Western Historical Quarterly. Spring, 2017.
Review of Glen Sample Ely, The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858-1861, for Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Winter,2016.
Review of Light Cummins, On History’s Trail: Speeches and Essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012, for Panhandle-Plains Historical Review. Winter, 2016.
Review of John Ryan Fischer, Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai‘i for Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Summer,2016.
Review of Jack Bailey, A Texas Cowboy’s Journal: Up the Trail to Kansas in 1868 ed. by David Dary, for Southwestern Historical Quarterly. Spring,2016.
Review of Lawrence T. Jones, III, Lens on the Texas Frontier for Southwestern Historical Quarterly.Winter, 2015.
Review of Elizabeth Turner, Stephanie Cole, and Rebecca Sharpless, eds., Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives for Panhandle-Plains Historical Review. Winter,2015.
Review of Margaret Lewis Furse, The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present for Journal of Southern History. Spring, 2015.
Review of Jacques D. Bagur, ed., Captain W.W. Withenbury’s 1838-1842 Red River Reminiscences for Southwestern Historical Quarterly.Summer, 2015.
Review of Paul H Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud eds., West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State for Chronicles of Oklahoma.2014.
Review of Gerald Moorhead, Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast for Southwestern Historical Quarterly.January 2014.
Review of T. Lindsay Baker, American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs for West Texas Yearbook.Spring, 2013.
Review of Mary L. Scheer, ed., Women and the Texas Revolution for East Texas Historical Journal. Fall 2013.
Review of Rick Miller, Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881 for Southwestern Historical Quarterly.October 2013.
Review of Rhonda Lashley Lopez, Don’t Make Me Go to Town: Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country for West TexasYearbook.Spring, 2012.
Review of Susan Erb, editor,On the Western Trails: The Overland Diaries of Washington Peck for Pacific Northwest Quarterly.Summer, 2011.
Review of Amy Wink,Tandem Lives: The Frontier Texas Diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree, 1856-1884, for West Texas Yearbook.Spring, 2011.
Review of Mark Gretchen’s Slave Transactions of Guadalupe County, Texas forSouthwestern Historical Quarterly.October 2010.
Review of Candace S. Greene One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record, forWest TexasYearbook.Fall, 2010.
Books, Articles, and Miscellaneouspublished, awaiting publication, or proposed:
Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi, Deborah Liles and Angela Boswell, eds. University of North Texas Press, October 2016.Winner of the 2016 Liz Carpenter Award for best book on Texas Women’s Historyand 2016 Lock Award for best book on East Texas History.
“Not Your Typical Southern Belles: Women on the Western Frontier of Civil War Texas.” Chapter in Women in Civil War Texas, Liles and Boswell, eds.
“Before Emancipation: Black Cowboys and the Livestock Industry.” Chapter in Black Cowboys and Their Imprint in the West, Bruce Glasrud and Michael N. Searles, eds., Oklahoma Press 2016. Book was2016Winner of Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture.
Black Texans in Central Texas History, Bruce Glasrud and Deborah M. Liles, Texas A&M University Press. Currently submitted and under review for 2018 publication.
“Betwixt Old Ways and New Freedoms: African Americans in Central Texas,” with Bruce Glasrud for Black Texans in Central Texas History, Glasrud and Liles, eds., Texas A&M University Press, 2018.
“Livestock and Slavery in North Central Texas: A View from Stephens County.” Chapter in Black Texans in Central Texas History, Glasrud and Liles eds.
Chisholm Trail. Compiler for Texas State Historical Association ebook. Summer 2017.
“Martha Alice Loring: An Unlikely Woman on the Texas Frontier,” accepted for publication in Central Texas Studies: The Journal of the Central Texas Historical Association, Vol. 2 (Fall 2017).
Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, At the Rodeo, In the Community, Deborah M. Liles and Cecilia Gutierrez Venable, eds. Currently submitted and under review for the Ruthe Wingarten Women’s history series at Texas A&M University Press for 2018 publication.
“In Search of Lucinda: Women and the Livestock Industry in Early Texas,” Chapter in Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, At the Rodeo, In the Community, Liles and Venable, eds.
Oliver Loving: Dean of the Texas Trail Drivers. Manuscript under contract with Texas A&M University Press for 2018 publication.
“Women on the Texas Frontier,” blog entry for the Rural Women’s Studies Association. June 2016.
Digital Austin Papers, Andrew J. Torget, General Editor, Debbie Liles, Associate Editor. 2015.
“Book Notes” Military History of the West, Alex Mendoza, ed., 2014 and 2015.
Southern Roots, Western Foundations: The Peculiar Institution and the Livestock Industry, manuscript under contract by LSU Press for 2018 publication.
Debbie Liles, “Slavery and Cattle in East and West Texas,” East Texas Historical Journal, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Fall 2014): 29-38
“Inventing the Past: How Historiography Contributes to Deceptions in Small Communities.” West Texas Historical Association Year Book, 2013.
Will Rogers Coliseum.Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2012. Published.Used in conjunction with my master’s thesis to obtain historic preservation for the three original buildings of the Will Rogers complex.
“Uncontested Ground: The Northwestern Frontier of Texas, 1846-1855,” West Texas Historical Association Year Book.2011.
“Designing and Teaching an Online Class: User Manual.” University of North Texas, History Department handbook supplement.2011.
The Journals of J.J. and Alice Walker. Manuscript in progress to be submitted to University of Tennessee Press.
The Journals of Samuel and Susan Newcomb: Settlers on the Cattle Frontier of Texas. Manuscript in progress to be submitted to Texas A&M University Press.
Sample of Panels Organized for Conferences:
“Struggle to be Legally Gay in Texas.” For 2017 Central Texas Historical Association meeting. First LGBT panel for the organization.
“Texas LGBT Communities.” For 2016 Texas State Historical Association meeting. First LGBT panel in the organization’s 119-year history.
“Texan Ranching Women.” For 2017 Central Texas Historical Association.
“Women and Texas History: The Civil War Years.” For 2018 Texas State Historical Association.
Chisum, Loving, & Slaughter: Noted Southwestern Cattlemen. For 2017 Texas State Historical Association.
“Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi,” For 2016 East Texas Historical Association.
“Formidable Texas Women.” For 2016 East Texas Historical Association.
“Women in Civil War Texas.” For 2014 East Texas Historical Association.
“Women in Civil War Texas.”For 2014 Texas State Historical Association.
“On Slavery's Frontier: Court Cases, Cattlemen, and the Fate of Female Planters.” For 2014 Texas State Historical Association.
“Interpreting Colonial, Antebellum, and Early 20th Century Texas.”2013 West Texas Historical Association.
Untitled entries:
Historian/commentator for documentary Identifying and Historically Verifying the Primary and Secondary Cattle Trails.October 2016.