Ronald E Goodwin, Ph.D.

Contact Information

Professor and Interim Department Head
Office: 318 G.R. Woolfolk Bldg.
Phone: 936-261-3208
Email  ·  Curriculum Vitae

Teaching/Research Area of Interest

• Urban History
• African American History
• American Slavery
• New Deal in Texas

Education

• PhD, MA, MS, Texas Southern University
• BA, Texas Lutheran University

Selection of Courses Taught

• US History Survey courses
• African American History
• Urban History
• American Chattel Slavery
• Military History
• Contemporary US History
• Early National US History

Selected Research Activities

• The New Deal and Texas History: Saving the Past through Hardship and Turmoil. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Forthcoming, 2021
• “Houston’s Super Neighborhoods Action Plans: Collaborative Planning or Status Quo?” Special Edition of Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South. Forthcoming, 2021
• “I Too Sing Texas Our Texas: Black Texans and New Deal Community Service Projects.” In Conflict and Cooperation: Reflections on the New Deal in Texas edited by Milton Jordan and George Cooper (Nacogdoches: Stephen F. Austin Press), 2019
• “Time to Go: Reasons Why the White Middle Class Abandoned Houston” Journal of South Texas 32 (Fall 2018): 52-64
• The Mask of Microaggressions: Case studies of Racism in the US, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co. (co-authored with Dr. Mark Tschaepe), 2017
• “Sweatting Civil Rights,” Texas Insights vol.VII, no.5 (May 2017)
• “Subprime Lending: The Mirage of Homeownership” Global Journal of Multidisciplinary Research vol.1, no.1 (November 2016)
• Remembering the Days of Sorrow: The WPA and the Texas Slave Narratives. Abilene: State House/McWhiney Foundation Press, 2014
• “Black Paradox in the Age of Terrorism: Military Patriotism or Higher Education?” in Texas and War: New Interpretations on the Military History of the Lone Star State, edited by Dr. Charles Grear and Dr. Alexander Mendoza. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2012
• “Into Freedom’s Abyss: Reflections of Reconstruction Violence in Texas” in Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865-1874, edited by Dr. Kenneth W. Howell. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2012
• “On the Edge of First Freedoms: Black Texans and the Civil War” in The Seventh Star of the Confederacy, edited by Kenneth W. Howell, 268-286 Denton: University of North Texas Press (co-authored with Dr. Bruce Glasrud), 2009
• “Control After Dark: Slave Owners and Their Control of Slaves’ Intimate Relationships or Who’s Your Daddy?” Journal of History and Culture 1 (2008): 18-29

Selected Service Activities

• Co-Chair, Levi Jordan Plantation Advisory Committee, Texas Historical Commission, 2020-present
• Member, Texas New Deal Review Editorial Board, 2020-present
• Member, Journal of History and Culture Editorial Board, 2018-present
• Member, Night Heron Media Advisory Board, 2020-present
• Fellow, Texas Academic Leadership Academy, Cohort 2, 2019-2020
• General Editor, PVAMU Book Series, Texas A&M University Press, 2019-present
• Contributor, Texas Institute for the Preservation of History & Culture, 2017-present
• Media Interviews:
  • Avoiding the Mistakes of 2016, by Aswad Walker, Houston Defender, October 29, 2020
  • ‘Sad and Joyful’: N.Y.C. Marks Juneteenth After a Month of Protest, by Nikita Stewart and Alan Feuer, New York Times, June 19, 2020
  • He woke the world up.’ Houston’s Third Ward remembers George Floyd, by Henry Glass and Camilo Smith, Christian Science Monitor, June 9, 2020
• Fellow, PVAMU Academic Affairs, 2018-2020
• First Vice President, Central Texas Historical Association, 2019-2020
• Senator, Brailsford College of Arts & Sciences, PVAMU Faculty Senate, 2014-2018
• Parliamentarian, PVAMU Faculty Senate, 2014-2017