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March 2, 2023History Peeps: Andrew Kirkendall, Professor of History
Dr. Andrew Kirkendall did not plan to become a historian. Texas A&M’s resident historian of Latin America went to Wesleyan University in 1976 with the goal of becoming an ethnomusicologist. Although he had some interest in history, and even switched his major to the subject before graduating from Wesleyan, he struggled with what to do […]
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January 4, 2023
History Peeps: Shennette Garrett-Scott, Associate Professor of History
Before Dr. Shennette Garrett-Scott became a scholar of African American business history, she spent over a decade in the Dallas mortgage industry until, fed up with the “real world,” she says, she decided to pursue a career in which she could transform people’s lives more enduringly: teaching. While she was in graduate school at the […]
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December 5, 2022History Peeps: Walter Kamphoefner , Professor of History
History Peeps: Walter Kamphoefner , Professor of History Growing up, Dr. Walter Kamphoefner felt almost destined to become a historian. He was born in the town of Defiance, Missouri, where Daniel Boone led a settlement effort in 1799, and he distinctly recalls eating picnic lunches under the shade of the Boone Historic Home. During this […]
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November 4, 2022History Peeps: Dr. Terry Anderson, Professor of History
Terry Anderson has always been a man on the go. A Texas A&M professor since 1979, he has written books on the Cold War, the Flying Tigers, social activism in the 1960s, affirmative action, and most recently the 1990s. He has also held fellowship teaching positions in Malaysia, Japan, China, Ireland, Indonesia, and the Czech […]
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October 10, 2022History Peeps: Mary Speelman, Administrative Associate V
Mary Speelman, the History Department’s Administrative Associate, is not originally from Bryan-College Station, but she promises that she got here as fast as she could. Born in Raymondville, Texas, she moved to Aggieland with her family when she was four, and hasn’t looked back since. Although the town has grown considerably since her childhood to […]
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September 12, 2022History Peeps: Dr. Brian Rouleau, Associate Professor of History
Brian Rouleau was not slow to embrace the Aggie spirit. One of his first acts upon arriving in 2010 was to purchase a pair of cowboy boots and begin two-stepping lessons with the Texas Aggie Wranglers, the university’s competitive dance group. “I never did master two-stepping,” he admits, “but it was a lot of fun.” […]
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August 8, 2022History Peeps: Dr. Albert S. Broussard, Professor of History
Dr. Al Broussard has witnessed epic changes in his time here at Texas A&M University. With a B.A. from Stanford University in 1973 and a Ph.D. from Duke in 1977, Dr. Broussard first arrived at the TAMU History Department in 1985. His job upon being hired was to create the university’s first African American history […]
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July 15, 2022History Peeps: Graduate Students attend the SMH Conference
Texas A&M University students made a strong showing at the Society of Military History (SMH) Conference held in Fort Worth, Texas this past April 28th through May 1st, with sixteen students presenting original research. As one of only six US universities designated as a “Senior Military Colleges,” Texas A&M has a long history of excellence […]
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June 27, 2022History Peeps – Dr. Sonia Hernandez, Associate Professor of History
As a professor of the US-Mexico Borderlands, Dr. Sonia Hernández’s enthusiasm for history is deeply personal. The child of Mexican immigrants, Hernández was the first member of her family born in the United States. She remembers growing up in a colonia or unincorporated town of the Rio Grande Valley near McAllen, Texas. She was first […]
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May 29, 2022History Peeps: Dr. Stephen B. Riegg, Assistant Professor of History
History sometimes seems abstract and distant but other times its relevancy is blindingly obvious. No one doubts the current salience of Dr. Stephen Riegg’s work. An expert on Russian history, he has recently published Russia’s Entangled Embrace: The Tsarist Empire and The Armenians, 1801-1914, on the Romanov dynasty’s relationship with minority ethnic groups in the […]