I earned my Bachelor of Arts Degree in History in 2003 from Tarleton State University, located in Stephenville, Texas, about seventy miles southwest of Fort Worth, Texas.  In 2006 I finished my thesis in pursuit of my Master of Arts Degree in History at Tarleton.  I have taught several sections of both U.S. and world history at Tarleton as an adjunct professor since 2005.  From fall 2008 to spring 2011 I have been a graduate instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA); in 2010 I began teaching classes as an adjunct professor at Navarro College in Corsicana.  At Tarleton I was a graduate assistant at the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, a museum documenting the boom town turned ghost town of Thurber, Texas, where I learned many aspects of public history and how to work with archives and collections.  In the fall of 2006 I started work on my Ph.D. in Transatlantic History at the University of Texas at Arlington.  I have been a contributing member of Phi Alpha Theta at both Tarleton and UTA and served as President and Vice President of the Transatlantic History Student Organization (THSO), a UTA graduate student organization for anyone interested in the encounters, discoveries, and interaction across the frontiers of the Atlantic Basin.  I have helped organize three THSO symposia with internationally known historians.  During the spring 2008 semester, I completed my comprehensive exams, and in the fall 2008 semester my dissertation prospectus was approved by my dissertation committee.  In late 2010, the Texas Tech University Press accepted my revised master’s thesis for publication in 2012.  I completed my Ph.D. in spring 2011, writing my dissertation on place-names in the Spanish New World.

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Location

Arlington, Texas

Disciplines

• History
• Geography

Affiliation

University of Texas at Arlington

Website

http://www.uta.edu/faculty/gtucker/index.html