Thomas Clarkin, Ph.D.
EDUCATION
University of Texas at Austin
1998 Doctor of Philosophy, History
1993 Master of Arts, History
1983 Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor, San Antonio College, 2012-Present
Assistant Professor, San Antonio College, 2008-2012
Instructor, San Antonio College, 2005-2008
Lecturer, San Antonio College, 1999-2001, 2003-2005
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, 2002-2003
Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, 2001, 2002
Adjunct Faculty, University of Texas at San Antonio, 1999-2001
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, 1997-1998
PUBLICATIONS
Book
Federal Indian Policy in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations, 1961-1969.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001.
Book Chapters
“The First Citizens: LBJ and American Indians,” in Mitchell Lerner, ed., Looking Back at
LBJ: White House Politics in a New Light, (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005).
“Federal Indian Policy and Self-Determination During the Kennedy and Johnson Years,”
in Sterling Evans, ed., American Indians in American History, 1870—2001: A Companion
Reader (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood/Praeger, 2002).
“Coronado Explores the North American Interior,” in Frank Thackeray and John Findling,
eds., Events That Changed America Through the Seventeenth Century (Westport:
Greenwood Publishing Co., 2000): 22-33.
“The French and Indian War,” in Frank Thackeray and John Findling, eds., Events That
Changed America in the Eighteenth Century (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Co.,
1998): 45-57.
“Abolition,” in Frank Thackeray and John Findling, eds., Events That Changed America in
the Nineteenth Century (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1997): 81-94.
“The Civil Rights Movement,” in Frank Thackeray and John Findling, eds., Events That
Changed America in the Twentieth Century (Westport: Greenwood Publishing Co., 1996):
153-68.
Journal Articles
“The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum.” The Public Historian (Summer
2006): 206-208.
Book Reviews
Laurence Marc Hauptman. In the Shadow of Kinzua: The Seneca Nation of Indians since
World War II, in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, forthcoming.
David La Vere, The Texas Indians, in Western Historical Quarterly, 36(3): 385.
Harvey Frauenglass, The Cidermaster of Rio Oscuro in New Mexico Historical Review,
79(3): 398-99.
Herbert Eugene Bolton, The Hasinais: Southern Caddoans as Seen by the Earliest
Europeans in Journal of South Texas, 16(1): 111-13.
Donald Fixico, The Urban Indian Experience in America in New Mexico Historical
Review, 78(1): 103-104.
Kathleen J. Bragdon, The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast in HAmIndian, H-Net Reviews, June 2002.
Thomas W. Cowger, The National Congress of American Indians: The Founding Years in
New Mexico Historical Review, 76(4): 447-48.
Distance Learning Course
"Native Americans and the United States.” Correspondence course, Extension and
Instruction Materials Center, University of Texas at Austin. Summer, 1997.
Editor
Documentary History of the John F. Kennedy Presidency (LexisNexis)
General Editor, Volumes 19-25: “The Bay of Pigs”; “The Berlin Crisis”; “Kennedy and
Lyndon Johnson”; “Kennedy and the Democratic Party”; “The Alliance for Progress”;
“Kennedy and the Environment”; “Kennedy and the Council of Economic Advisers”
Textbook Features
“Reasons for the War of 1812,” in Boyer’s The American Nation. Austin: Holt, Rinehart
and Winston, 2001.
“Bakke v. Regents of the University of California: The Question of Affirmative Action,”
in America Past and Present, 4th ed. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1995.
Reprinted in 5th ed., 1998.
Encyclopedia Articles
Encyclopedia of the American Indian
Johnson, Lyndon; Udall, Stewart
American National Biography Online
“Gonzalez, Henry B.”
The Encyclopedia of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001.
“Seattle”; “Transportation: Roads and Turnpikes”
American National Biography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
“Boldt, George Hugo”; “Bunche, Ralph Johnson”; “Cohen, Felix Solomon”; “Cooper,
Henry Ernest”; “Dubuclet, Antoine”; “Thomas, Elmer”
PRESENTATIONS
“American Indians in U.S. History” AP U.S. History Summer Institutes, 2004-2008, 2010
2013.
“Self-Determination Policy During the 1960s: JFK and LBJ.” Western History
Association, 1999.
“Lyndon Johnson and Native Americans.” Texas State Historical Association, 1998.
“Native Americans and the War on Poverty.” The Legacy of LBJ and the Great Society
Symposium, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1998.
"Senator Clinton Anderson and the Persistence of Termination: Federal Indian Policy,
1961-1970." Arizona/New Mexico Historical Conference, 1998.
“The Passage of the 1968 Civil Rights Act: The Role of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s
Assassination.” Southwestern Social Sciences Association, 1996.
“LBJ and the 1966 Midterm Elections.” Southwestern Social Sciences Association, 1994.
HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS
“Bring the World Home and Home to the World,” San Antonio College, Title VI A
Improving International Studies and Foreign Languages, U.S. Department of Education,
2005.
Visiting Scholar Grant, Carl Albert Congressional Center, University of Oklahoma, 2002.
Moody Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 2002.
Faculty Excellence Award, University of Texas at San Antonio Disability Services, 2000.
Mary M. Hughes Research Fellowship, Texas State Historical Association, 2000.
Friends of the Princeton University Library Research Fellowship, 1997.
Houston Endowment President's Excellence Fellowship, University of Texas, 1997.
Thematic Fellowship in the Peoples and Cities of the Southwest, University of Texas,
1997.
Dissertation Fellowship in Southwestern History, University of Texas, 1996.
Research Grant, Harry S Truman Library Institute, 1996.
Visiting Scholar Grant, Carl Albert Congressional Center, University of Oklahoma, 1996.
Moody Grant, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 1995.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND SERVICE
NEH Summer Seminar, “Territorial Expansion and the Constitution in the Early Republic”
(2106)
STAAR Content Validation Team (2010-2014)
Judge, Texas History Day (2006-2007, 2011-2014)
Evaluator, Humanities Texas Institute for Teachers (2014)
Presenter, AP History Workshop (2009-2011, 2013)
Achieving the Dream National Conference (2007)
NEH Landmarks Program, Immigration, (2007)
Achieving the Dream Summer Institute (2006)
NEH Landmarks Program, “Untarnishing the Gilded Age” (2006)
NEH Landmarks Program, “Mounds, Earthworks, and the Prehistory of the Ohio Valley”
(2006)
NEH Landmarks Program, “The Steel Industry in Ohio” (2005)
Peer Reviewer, Pacific Historical Review
Peer Reviewer, University of Oklahoma Press
Content Reviewer, Children’s History Series, University of New Mexico Press
Peter Becomes a Trail Man (2003)
Across the Wide River (2003)