AFamily Secrets: The Growth of Community at Los Alamos,@ New                             Mexico Historical Review 72:1 (January 1997), 39-46.

A Selective Bibliography of New Mexico History, compiler and editor,

            (Albuquerque: Center for the American West, 1992).

AWARDS

Outstanding Achievement Award, (Spring 2006)—awarded by the School of Arts and Sciences at New Mexico State to its distinguished professors.

Darnell Award, (Fall 2004)—awarded to the professor at New Mexico State who has demonstrated broad-based and superior accomplishments in teaching, research, and service to the university, the profession, and the community.

Commendation Award from American Association for State and Local History, (Fall 2004)—awarded for the course and publication “Time Traveling through New Mexico’s Past: the Spanish Colonial Period.”

Heritage Preservation Award, (Spring 2004)—awarded by the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division to the outstanding public historian in the state.

Fulbright Fellowship (January 2001-May 2001)—awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to assist Växjö University at Växjö, Sweden in developing a public history program.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS

            “Inventing Los Alamos,” numerous lectures in conjunction with the release of

                        Inventing Los Alamos on the social and cultural history of Los Alamos and                 the Atomic Age around the Southwest. (2004 to present).

“Time Traveling as a University Course,” to be presented at a Historic

                        Environment Education workshop, Őland, Sweden, (September 2006).

            “Time Traveling to the Great Depression,” presented at Bridging Ages:

                        International Seminar of Historic Environment Education and Time Travels,

                        Rome, Italy, (June 2006).

            “Time Traveling: A Workshop on Historic Environment Education,”

            presented at the Organization of American Historians/ National Council on Public History conference, Washington, D.C., (April 2006).

            “Public History on the Border,” presented at the Lineae Terrarum: 

                        International Borders Conference, Las Cruces. (March 2006)

“Time Traveling in New Mexico,” presented at Bridging Ages: International

Symposium in Historic Environment Education and Time Travels, Vimmerby, Sweden, (November 2004).

            “J. Robert Oppenheimer: The Early Years,” presented at the Oppenheimer                 and the Manhattan Project Symposium, Los Alamos, N.M., (June 2004)

ATeaching Time Traveling,@ a workshop presented at the joint conference of the National Council on Public History and the American Society of Environmental History, Victoria, B.C., (April 2004).

ALiving Between the Fences,@ presented to the Los Alamos Historical Society, Los Alamos, N.M., (November 2003).

APublic History and the Globalization of Culture: A Report from Sweden,@ presented at the Organization of American Historians/National Council on Public History joint conference, Washington, D.C., (April 2002).

AHeritage Preservation and Community Conservation in New Mexico,@ presented at the Organization of American Historians/National Council of Public History conference, Washington, D.C., (April 2002).

ABeyond Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll: The Counter Culture=s Impact on America,@ presented at The Legacy of the Sixties conference, Växjö University, Sweden, (April 2001).

ANew Mexico=s Most Endangered Historic Places,@ presented at the New Mexico Historical Society conference, Belen, New Mexico, (March 2000).

ASirens on the Hill: Civil Defense in Los Alamos in the 1950s,@ presented at the Fifties Turn Fifty conference, Laramie, Wyoming, (October 1999).

ACuentos del Varrio/Preserving Community,@ presented at the Oral History Association Conference, Buffalo, New York, (October 1998).

AInterdisciplinary Roundtable on Critical Pedagogy,@ presented at the Western Social Science Association Conference, Albuquerque, N.M., (April 1997).        

APowerwalking Through History: 400 years of Cultural Tourism in Santa Fe, N.M.,@ presented at the National Council on Public History Conference, Albany, N.Y., (May 1997).

AFamily Secrets: The Growth of Community at Los Alamos,@ presented at the New Mexico Historical Society Conference, Las Vegas, N.M. (April 1996).

AChaos Revisited: Using Complexity Theory in Social Analysis,@ presented at the Center of the American West Conference in Albuquerque, N.M. (February 1995).

GRANTS and CONTRACTS

            “Bridging Ages: International Seminar in Historic Environment Education

and Time Travels,” (2006)—received $1,900 grant to participate in this

 seminar in Rome in June 2006.

            “The History of the Mesilla Valley,” (2006)—hired by the El Paso Community

                        Foundation to write a short history of the Mesilla Valley for distribution to

                        the area’s schools.

            “A Report on the Use of Crosses in the Symbols of the City of Las Cruces,”

(2006) – hired by Federal Court Judge Robert Brack as a “706” expert to       research and write about the use of crosses in the city logo of Las Cruces.

 “Taylor Family Oral History,” (2004-2005)—received $5,200 contract from New            Mexico State Monuments to conduct oral histories of J. Paul and Mary                  Taylor and their six children in preparation of their family home     

becoming a state monument.

“El Camino Real Time Traveling,” (2004)—received $2,000 grant from the New                      Mexico Humanities Council to videotape our Time Traveling events at El

Camino Real International Heritage Center for future programming use.

AChasing Oppie,@ (2004)-- received $2,000 grant from the American Institute of Physics to research the life of Robert Oppenheimer at their College Park, Maryland archives and library.

AResearching Oppie,@ (2003)-- received $1,900 grant from the College of Arts and Sciences at New Mexico State University to research the Oppenheimer collection of papers at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Surveying the Historic Buildings of Downtown Las Cruces (August 2002- July 2003)-- received $2,000 contract to survey downtown Las Cruces from the N.M. Historic Preservation Division.

Time Traveling through New Mexican History (August 2002 to present)-- received a $9,000 grant from the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance and a $4,000 grant from the Southwest Border and Cultures Institute to conduct living history educational programs through first person interpretations at local museums. We recreated living during the Spanish Colonial period.

Administrative History of Capulin Volcano National Monument, (2001-2003) administrated a $23,000 contract for a graduate student in the Public History Program to write a history of Capulin Volcano N.M. for the National Park Service.

Border Cultural Resources Survey (1997-1998)-- received a $10,000 contract from the National Park Service to conduct a survey of the historic district of Las Trampas, N.M.

Preserving Community/Cuentos del Varrio (1997)-- received a $10,000 grant from the N. M. Juvenile Justice Division to teach teens-at-risk and their teachers in the Gadsden School District oral history so that the teens could interview the elders of their communities about their heritage and language.

SELECTED SERVICE MEMBERSHIPS AND PROJECTS

            Centennial of N. M. Statehood Task Force (2005-present) – serve on this

                        statewide committee to plan for the centennial celebration of New Mexico’s

statehood.

            National Council on Public History (2005-present) – serve on the board of

                        directors for this international organization. Also serve as the chair of the

                        Local Arrangements and a member of the Program Committee for the

                        upcoming annual conference in Santa Fe in April 2007.

            International Network in Historic Environment Education and Time Travels

(2004-present)—serve as a member of this international organization

based in Sweden that promotes living history in museums and schools.

New Mexico History Museum (2004)—served as a southern New Mexican consultant to the New Mexico History Museum, a new facility in Santa Fe to exhibit the history of the state.

New Mexico History Task Force, (2003-2004)--  served on this legislatively mandated committee to plan how to get more resources into the hands of New Mexico history teachers.

National Council on Public History Program Committee, (2002-2004)--  co-chair of program committee for 2004 annual conference in Victoria, B.C.

New Mexico Cultural Properties Review Committee, (1999-2003 and 2005- present) appointed by Gov. Johnson in 1999 and by Gov. Richardson in 2005 to serve on this policy making board for New  Mexico Historic Preservation Division.

Southern New Mexico History Day competition, (1999-present)—judge for and advisor to History Day activities in southern New Mexico.

New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance, (1997-2001)-- vice president of the statewide organization committed to historic, cultural, and language preservation of the diverse communities of New Mexico.

Re-surveying the Mesquite Historic District, (2000)-- oversaw a project for the N.M. Historic Preservation Division to document 89 historic structures in the Mesquite district.

Curriculum Retreat for Public History Educators, (Spring 2000)-- organized and moderated a one day retreat for directors and other public history educators of university programs in conjunction with the National Council on Public History annual conference in St. Louis.

New Mexico=s Most Endangered Places List, (1998- 2001) -- organized this project to identify and publicize the most endangered historic places in New Mexico in conjunction with the N. M. Heritage Preservation Alliance.

AArchitectural Styles of Mesilla,@ (1999)-- helped the town of Mesilla, N.M. in  preserving its historic district. Assisted in the TICAL VI Lime Plastering Workshop to help preserve adobe structures.

AImpact Los Alamos,@ oral history project that interviewed northern New Mexicans about Los Alamos, University of New Mexico Oral History Project (UNM-OHP), (1993-1994).