Gene Rhea Tucker - Transatlantic History Ph.D. Program, The University of Texas at Arlington

Gene Rhea Tucker

Ph.D. Candidate

Graduate Teaching Assistant/Graduate Instructor

Transatlantic History Ph.D. Program

The University of Texas at Arlington

gene.tucker@mavs.uta.edu

Office: UH 318

Office Phone: (817) 272-2909

Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitæ

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 am currently in the process of trying to get my thesis published by a university press. I have taught several sections of both U. S. and world history at Tarleton as an adjunct professor since 2005. Since the fall of 2008 I have been a graduate instructor at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). 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.