Robert P. Wettemann, Jr.

Director, Public History Program
Assistant Professor of History, McMurry University

McM Station Box 638
Abilene, TX  79697-0638
915-793-3864
FAX 915-793-3866

wettemar@mcmurryadm.mcm.edu



Education:
Ph.D. -- Texas A&M University -- May 2001
    Dissertation:  "'To the Public Prosperity':  The United States Army and the Market Revolution, 1815-1844."
    Directed by Joseph G. Dawson, III.
Master of Arts -- Texas A&M University -- December 1995
    Thesis:  "The Enlisted Soldier in the U.S. Army:  The Seventh U.S. Infantry, 1815-1860."
Bachelor of Arts with Honors -- Oklahoma State University -- May 1993
    Honors Thesis:  "Daniel Morgan's Influence on the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution"



Employment:
Assistant Professor of History, McMurry University -- August 2001 to present
Collections Manager, Grady McWhiney Research Collection -- August 2001 to present
Lecturer, Texas A&M University -- August 2000 through May 2001
Graduate Assistant Lecturer, Texas A&M University -- August 1999 through July 2001
Graduate Assistant, Teaching, Texas A&M University -- January 1998 through May 1999
Graduate Assistant, Non-Teaching, Texas A&M University -- August 1993-December 1997



Teaching/Research Fields:
American History
Military History
Public History



Publications (Articles):
"A Virginia Soldier in the Frontier Army:  The Letters of Sergeant John R. Whaley, Second U.S. Artillery, 1854-1859."
     Military History of the West  29 (Spring 1999): 63-88.

"The Girl I Left Behind Me:  United States Army Laundresses and the Mexican War," Army History, 46 (Spring 1999): 1-10.

Donald S. Frazier, ed.  The United States and Mexico at War.  New York:  Macmillan Publishing Co., 1998.
     Contributed the following articles:

"Corpus Christi"
"Jacob Brown"
"Fort Texas, Siege of"
"Fort Texas"
"Recruitment:  U.S. Recruitment"
"James Shields"
"Justin Smith"
"New Orleans"


Book Reviews:
Richard Griswold del Castillo, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo:  A Legacy of Conflict for The Journal of South Texas 15
     (Spring 2002).

Ralph Wooster, Lone Star Soldiers in Gray for The Journal of South Texas 14 (Spring 2001).

C. Edward Skeen, Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812 for The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society  97 (April 1999).

Charles M. Haecker and Jeffrey Mauck, On the Prairies of Palo Alto:   Historical Archaeology of a U.S.-Mexican War
     Battlefield for Association for Living History, Farm and Museums Bulletin 28 (Summer 1998).

Lawrence R. Clayton and Joseph E. Chance, eds. The March to Monterrey:  The Diary of Lt. Rankin Dilworth for East
     Texas Historical Journal 35 (Fall 1997).



Paper Presentations:
"A Prop for the American System:  West Point, the Jacksonians and the Market Revolution,"  presented at "Making History:
     West Point at 2000 Years," United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 9 March 2002.

"Another Source of Partisan Conflict:  The U.S. Army, Privilege, and the Internal Improvements Debate," presented at the
     Southwestern Social Science Association, San Antonio, Texas, 1 April 1999.

"Creating a National Economy:  The U.S. Army and the General Survey Act of 1824," presented at the Mid-America
     Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 18 September 1998.

"Challenging the Notion of an Isolated Officers Corps:   Officer Resignations in the Jacksonian Era, 1830-1844,"  presented at
     The Society for Military History, Wheaton, Illinois, 24 April 1998.

"'The Girl I Left Behind Me' . . .  Or Were They:  United States Army Laundresses and the U.S.- Mexican War, 1845-1848,"
     presented at the Mid America Conference on History, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 19 September
     1997.

"Enlistment Patterns in the Regular Army:  The Seventh U.S. Infantry Regiment, 1841-1848,"  presented at the Southwestern
     Social Science Association, Houston, Texas, 21 March 1996.

"From War to Peace:  The Military Reorganization of 1815 and the Foundation of American Military Professionalism,"
     presented at the Southwest/Texas Regional Popular Culture Association, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater,
     Oklahoma, 17 February 1995.

"Daniel Morgan:  Tactical Innovations at the Battle of Cowpens," presented at the Southwestern Regional Phi Alpha Theta
     Conference, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma, April, 1993.



Professional Activities:
Panel Chair, "Sex, Death and Dressing Well:  Social History of the Texas Republic," Texas State Historical Association 104th
     Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, 4 March 2000.

Panel Discussant, "The Mexican War and the Antebellum United States," Mexican War Conference, Nicholls State University,
     Thibodaux, Louisiana, 14 February 1998.



Invited Symposia and Lectures:
"U.S. Army Uniforms in Antebellum Texas," presented at the Texas Forts Trail Muster, Fort Worth, Texas, 26 April 2002.

"The Texas Forts Trail, Then and Now,"  Farmers Branch Historical Museum, Farmers Branch Texas, 5 November 2001.

"'Public Prosperity' vs. 'Privilege':  Military Engineering in the Jacksonian Era," Society of American Military Engineers, Texas
      A&M Post, 22 March 2000.

"Edward Everett, Alamo Artist:  His Letters and His Life," Alamo Battlefields Association, San Antonio, Texas, 4 March 2000.

"The United States Army, 1835-1845:  A Social Portrait," presented at Fort Scott National Historic Site, Fort Scott, Kansas,
     9 September 1995.



Other Publications:
"Living History," Texas Heritage:  A Publication of the Texas Historical Foundation (Spring 2002):  26-29.



Honors and Awards:
Fellow, United States Military Academy Summer Seminar in Military History, West Point, New York, June 1999
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Phi Alpha Theta International History Honor Society
Outstanding Graduating Senior, Department of History, Oklahoma State University, May 1993



University and Community Service:
Regional Coordinator, National History Day, 2001-02
Faculty Advisor, Company  C, 5th Regiment U.S. Infantry Living History Unit, 2001
Member, Texas Forts Trail Advisory Board, 2001-02
Member, Fort Phantom Advisory Board, 2001-02
Member, Taylor County Historical Commission, 2001-02



Professional Memberships:
Society for Military History
Phi Alpha Theta
Company of Military Historians
Association for Living History, Farm, and Agricultural Museums