User:Tuckerresearch

Los Userboxes Están Aquí This user is male. This user is from Texas. 44 This user is 44 years old. XEN This user is a member of Xennials. This user has been on Wikipedia for 19 years, 2 months and 11 days. This user has made over 8,483 edits on All Wikis. This user is married. incl This user is an inclusionist. NO This user believes that Flagged Revisions are an abomination that will, if enacted, lead to the end of Wikipedia. Info Box This user believes that all articles should have an infobox. This user is a Sagittarian. This user is a historian. This user is an academic. PhD This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in History. MA This user has a Master of Arts degree in History. BA This user has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. This user is self-educated to an advanced college level. This user teaches at a university or other institution of higher education. This user has published a book. ACADEMIC JOURNAL This user has had his/her work published in an academic journal. POEM This user has had one of his poems published. This user is a Wikipedia Librarian. This user is a bibliophile. This user is a book collector. HIS This user's favourite subject is History. ΦΑΘ This user is a member of Phi Alpha Theta national honor society. ΦKΦ This user is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi honor society. NHS This user is a member of National Honor Society. This user is interested in history. This user is a history buff. This user is interested in the Texas Revolution. This user is interested in ancient civilizations. This user is interested in Ancient Israel. 1688 This user is interested in Whig history. This user is interested in the British Empire. This user is interested in the history of the United States. This user has ancestors who fought on both sides of the Civil War. This user is interested in World War I (1914–1918) and World War II (1939–1945). This user is interested in the history of the Cold War. This user is interested in his family history. This user is interested in maps.

TuckerResearch is from the e-mail address I chose to receive all my genealogy related material back in high school, and it sort of evolved into my screen name of choice for all scholarly topics.

I am originally from Killeen, Texas, and earned a Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in History from Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. I wrote my master's thesis on the boomtown-turned-ghosttown of Thurber, Texas. In the fall of 2006, I started work on my Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Arlington, in the field of Transatlantic History. I completed my Ph.D. in spring 2011.^[1][2] In late 2010, the Texas Tech University Press accepted my revised master’s thesis for publication. It was published as Macaroni, Oysters, and Beer: Thurber, Texas, and the Company Store in fall 2012.^[3]

On the scholarly front, I've written about Thurber, Texas, La Salle, Vincenzo Coronelli, Hans Staden and Ulrich Schmidel, José de Escandón, and place-names in Mexican Texas. I am interested in the history of cartography, especially maps of the early Spanish Empire, syncretization (or creolization) of toponyms in the New World, toponymy, discovery and exploration, and Texas history, especially during the nineteenth century.

I am professor of history at Temple College in Temple, Texas.^[4]