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Dr. Julie Leininger Pycior Professor of History

 

Education:

• B.A., Michigan State University, 1970 (with honors)
• M.A., University of Notre Dame, 1975
• Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, 1979

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Mexican Americans; Immigration (especially from Mexico); Biography/memoir; the 1960s; the Presidency; U.S. Catholicism; Public Television

Publications:

Author:  LBJ and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power (University of Texas Press, 1997),  Chicanos in South Bend: Some Historical Narratives (Notre Dame IN: Centro de Estudios Chicanos e Investigaciones Sociales, Inc., 1976).

Editor, Moyers on America: A Journalist and His Times, by Bill Moyers (New Press, 2004)

Twelve articles in scholarly journals

Other Activities:

Book contract, Texas A&M University Press, for "Against the Odds: Mexican American  Community Organizations in Texas, 1900-1930"

Over twenty papers presented at scholarly conferences

Research grants from the Lilly Endowment; the Florence and John Schumann Foundation; the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation; the Institute for Research in History

Historical advisor, PBS, 1999-

Awards:

T.R. Fehrenbach prize, Texas Historical Commission, 1998 (for LBJ and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power)

Who's Who in America, 2003 -

Who's Who of American Women, 2005 -

Courses Taught/Teaching:

• HIST 210: Great Issues in American History
• HIST 207: United States: Reconstruction to the Present
  
• HIST 225: Hispanic America
• HIST 318: Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean
• HIST 444: Modern America (1930-)
• HIST 452: American Foreign Relations 1900 to the Present
• HIST 464: American Biography
• HIST 471: The American West
• HIST 490: Senior Seminar: (The Art of Biography)
• LLRN 103:  Global Origins of the United States

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-7126
• Office: Miguel 410
• Fax: (718) 862-8044
• e-mail: julie.pycior@manhattan.edu

 

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