Ph.D., American History, University of Colorado-Boulder, May 1994.

Master of Arts, History, Colorado State University, December 1986.

Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy (With High Distinction), Colorado State University, 1978.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Professor of History, Utah Valley University, 2004 - Present.

Dean, School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Utah Valley State College, 2002 - 2007.

Chair, Department of History and Political Science, UVSC, 2001 - 2002.

Associate Professor, Department of History and Political Science, UVSC, 2001 - 2004.

Assistant Professor, Department of History (Tenure Track), UVSC, 1994 to 2000.

Assistant Dean, School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, UVSC, Fall 1998 to July 2000.

CURRENT AND RECENT COLLEGE SERVICE:

Panelist: Scholarship of Teaching and Engagement Conference, April 2009, UVU

Grant Writer, Co-Organizer, Moderator: Mountain Forum Conference on Traditions of the Rule of Law in Central Asia and the United States, March 2009, UVU

Faculty Representative, Student Chapter of NAACP, UVU

Director, American Studies Program, UVU

Co-Chair: Engaged Learning in the Liberal Arts Task Force, UVU

Member: Departmental Retention, Tenure, Promotion Committees, UVU

Chair: Turning Points in History Lecture Series, UVU.

Member: Committee on Interdisciplinary Studies, UVU.

Member: Steering Committee, Fine and Performing Arts Building Project, UVU.

Executive Director: Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Advisory Board, UVU.

Member: Peace and Justice Studies Executive Council, UVU.

Co-Host: Bobby Muller, Veterans for America, Peace and Justice Conference, 2007.

Co-Host: Morris Dees, Southern Poverty Law Center, Martin Luther King,Jr. Commemoration, 2007

Co-Host: Sen. George S. McGovern, Peace and Justice Conference, 2006.

Co-Organizer and Host: Sister Helen Prejean, Death Penalty Symposium, 2006.

Moderator: Panel on "The Role of 'Beauty' Pageants on College Campuses," 2005.

Introductory address: "Second Annual Vagina Monologues and V-Day Campaign Events," 2005.

Co-host and Organizer: 11th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, January 2005. Keynote: John Echohawk, Director, Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, CO.

Co-host and Organizer: 10th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration, 13 January 2004. Keynote: Yolanda King.

PUBLICATIONS

Book:

The American Foundation Myth in Vietnam: Reigning Paradigms and Raining Bombs, University Press of America, 1998.

Articles:

"A Veteran's Return to Vietnam," The Veteran, February 1997.

"The American Foundation Myth in Vietnam," Proceedings of the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery Conference on "The Image of War in Literature, the Media and Society," 1992.

"Interview with Western Historian Agnes Wright Spring," Colorado Heritage News, 1987.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Phi Alpha Theta, International History Honorary Society.

The American Historical Association.

The Organization of American Historians.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Teacher of the Year, Utah Valley State College. Selected by faculty, 1997-98.

Educator of the Year, Utah Valley State College. Selected by the students and the Programs Council, 1997-98.

Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Distinguished Service Awards nominee, 1998.

MILITARY

U.S. Army, 1969-1971, Honorable Discharge. 519th M.I. Battalion, 525th M.I. Group, MACV, Saigon, South Vietnam, March 1970 to April 1971. Military Intelligence.