Kyle Wilkison
Department of History
Collin College
Plano, Texas 75074
(972) 881-5834
Kwilkison@ccccd.edu
http://iws.ccccd.edu/kwilkison

Education

1995	PhD, American History, Vanderbilt University
1985	MA, American History, East Texas State University
1983	BA With High Honors, History, East Texas State University

Current Position

1994-

Professor of History, Collin College

Past Positions

1996-2000	Lecturer, Department of Historical Studies, University of Texas at Dallas.
1994-1999	Adjunct Professor, Department of History, Texas A&M University - Commerce.
1987-1994	Adjunct Professor, Departments of History, Eastfield College, Mesquite, Texas; Grayson College, Denison, Texas; Collin College, Plano, Texas; Texas A&M University-Commerce.
1985-1987	Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.
1983-1985	Teaching Assistant, Department of History, East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas.
1978-1983	Factory Laborer, Lance, Inc., Greenville, Texas
1978	Construction Worker, Harper Construction, Campbell, Texas
1976-1977	Construction Worker, McKnight Construction, Commerce, Texas

Courses Taught

Freshman	United States History to 1877; United States History from 1877
	"Rhetoric and the Republic: A Learning Community" (English Composition & Rhetoric and U.S. History II) Spring, Fall and Spring, 1996-1997
Sophomore	History of Texas (Collin College)
Junior	History of Texas (University of Texas - Dallas)
Senior	The American South (UTD and Texas A&M Commerce)
	The Old South, 1607-1865 (UTD)
	The New South, 1865-Present (UTD)
	American Civil War and Reconstruction Era (UTD)
	U.S. Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920 (UTD)
Graduate	U.S. Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1870-1920 (A&M Commerce)

Publications

Books

2010	The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, edited with David Cullen. Texas A&M University Press, 2010.
2008	Yeomen, Sharecroppers and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914. Texas A&M University Press, 2008.

Chapters and Essays

2010	“'The Right to Work, to Starve, to Die': Texas’ Forgotten Radical Heritage," with David Cullen in The Texas Left: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism, Kyle Wilkison and David Cullen, Eds. Texas A&M University Press, 2010.
2009	“The Communist Party of the United States and African American Presidential Candidates: James W. Ford, Charlene Mitchell, Jarvis Tyner and Angela Davis” with David Cullen in The African American Presidency: From Douglas to Obama, edited by Bruce Glasrud and Cary Wintz (Routledge Press, 2009)
2009	Editor, "James H. Conrad: The Making of an Oral Historian," The Sound Historian, 2009. 12:1-17.
2006	“Blue Collar Workers,” Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History. James Ciment, General Editor. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2006.
2004	“Introduction to Rural Social Movements in America,” and editor, “Rural Social Movements in America,” Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Immanuel Ness, General Editor. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 3:759-839.
2004	“Agrarian Socialism,” Encyclopedia of American Social Movements, Immanuel Ness, General Editor. New York: M. E. Sharpe, 2004. 3:796-801.
2000	"The Long Arm of History: The Labor Movement Among Texas Police Officers," in Ronald G. DeLord, ed., The Ultimate Sacrifice: The Trials and Triumphs of the Texas Peace Officer. Austin: Peace Officer's Memorial Foundation, 2000. pp.14- 22.

Reviews

2009	Review of Jeffrey A. Johnson, 'They are Red Out Here': Socialist Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1895-1925 (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) in Western Historical Quarterly (forthcoming).
2009	Review of James M. Smallwood, The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2008) in *The Journal of Southern History* (November 2009) LXXV, No. 4, 1079-1080.
2008	Review of Joseph Gerteis, Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement (Duke University Press, 2007) in *Choice:* *Current Reviews for Academic Libraries* (October 2008).
2008	Review of Mary G. Rolinson, Grassroots Garveyism: the Universal Negro Improvement Association in the rural South, 1920-1927 (North Carolina, 2007) in *Choice* (January 2008).
2006	Review of Thomas A. Krainz, Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in the American West (Albuquerque, 2005) in Choice (November 2006).
2006	"Statists, All!" Review essay of Chad Morgan, Planters' Progress: Modernizing Confederate Georgia. New Perspectives on the History of the South Series. (Gainesville, 2005) in H-SOUTH, H-Net Reviews June 2006.
2006	Review of Thad Sitton, ed., Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life From the Edge of the Texas Hill Country (Austin, 2003), *Oral History Review* Vol. 32. 2:124-126.
2006	Review of Thomas Summerhill, Harvest of Dissent: Agrarianism in Nineteenth Century New York (Chicago, 2005) in Choice (March 2006).
2006	Review of Mark Schultz, The Rural Face of White Supremacy: Beyond Jim Crow (Urbana, 2005) in Choice (February 2006)
2005	Review of Glenn Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South (Tuscaloosa, 2004) in Choice (June 2005).
2005	Review of Thad Sitton, ed., Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life From the Edge of the Texas Hill Country (Austin, 2003) in *East Texas Historical Journal* (Spring 2005).
2004	Review of Gene Wunderlich, American Country Life: A Legacy (University Press of America, 2003) in Choice (May 2004).
2004	Review of Michael McGerr, A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920 (New York, 2003) in Choice (February 2004).
2003	"A Not-So-Different Day in Louisiana." Review essay of Greta de Jong, A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970 (Chapel Hill, 2002) in H-SOUTH, H-Net Reviews, April 2003.
2000	“Jesus and Jefferson Meet Marx in Early-Statehood Oklahoma.” Review essay of James Bissett, Agrarian Socialism in America: Marx, Jefferson and Jesus in the Oklahoma Countryside, 1904-1920 (Norman, 1999) in H-POL, H-Net Reviews, March 2000.

Conference Papers and Other Professional Activities

1997-2009	Co-chair and organizer, thirteen Annual Cotton and Rural History Conferences, Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas.
2009	“Southern, Christian and Socialist: Rural America’s Forgotten Radical Heritage,” Thirteenth Cotton and Rural History Conference, Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas.
2008	"Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Poor Peoples' Protest in Texas, 1870-1914,” Fall Meeting, East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.
2004	“Texas Socialists, 1898-1914,” Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas.
2003	“Two Centuries of Protest: Rural Social Movements in America, 1750s-1980s,” Historical Lecture Series, Heritage Farmstead Museum, Plano, Texas
2001	Chair, “Hidden but Not Forgotten: Civil War Guerrillas and Vigilantes in Northeast Texas.” East Texas Historical Association Spring Meeting, Ft. Worth, Texas.
2000	“The Religious Left: Christian Dissenters in Early Twentieth Century Texas,” Eugene V. Debs and the Politics of Dissent in Modern America Conference, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
2000	"Capitalism Comes to the Plain Folk: The Transitional Generation in Texas, 1870-1910." East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.
1998	Commentator, James L. Roark’s paper, “Why the South Lost: Recent Interpretations of the Civil War.” Texas Community College Teachers Association Annual Conference, Dallas, Texas.
1997	“Red Reverends: Christian Socialists in East Texas,” East Texas Historical Association, Nacogdoches, Texas.
1997	Chair, “Narratives From Cotton: Slavery, Freedom and the Great Depression,” First Annual Cotton and Rural History Conference, American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas.
1997	“The Rise of Tenancy and the Fall of Independence: Collin County Farmers, 1870-1910.” Heritage Farmstead Museum, Plano, Texas.
1995	“The Degradation of Women’s Work: Texas Farms, 1870-1910” Southwestern Historical Association / Southwestern Social Sciences Association, Dallas, Texas.
1994	“Plain Folk Critics of Capitalism: Cultural Persistence and Economic Change in Texas, 1870-1910,” Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas.
1994	“The Plain Folk Community in Texas, 1870-1910,” The American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas.
1993	“From the Homeplace to No Place: The Demise of Self-Sufficient Agricultural Production in Texas,” Southern Historical Association, Orlando, Florida.

College Service - Presentations

2008	Presented (with Joan Jenkins), "Academic Freedom Concerns and the Course Redesign Initiative," Brownbag Lunch Series, Faculty Council Committee on Teaching and Learning, February 15, 2008, SCC.
2002-2007	Faculty panelist, New Student Orientation Programs
2006	“Religion, Radical Politics and Plain Folk in the New South, 1870-1915.” Study Grant Lecture, presented to the Faculty of Collin College, May 5, 2006
2004	Honors Institute Recruitment Presentation, Fall High School Counselor's Workshop, October 29, 2004
2003	Guest Speaker, Phi Theta Kappa Induction Ceremony, February 2003
2003	Guest speaker, Phi Theta Kappa Induction Ceremony, October 2002
2000	“The Honors Program at Collin College,” Presented to Austin Community College visiting administrators

College Service - Committees

2009-2011	Member, Sabbatical Leave Committee (elected)
2009-2011	Member, Council on Excellence (elected)
2009-	Member, Core Curriculum Assessment Group
2007-2009	Member, Faculty Council (elected)
2007-2009	Chair, Committee on Academic Freedom
2007-2009	Member, Sabbatical Leave Committee (elected)
2007	Member, History 1301 Online Course Template Committee
2006-2007	Member, History Faculty Search (two positions)
2006	Member, History Faculty Fall 2006 Search (two positions)
2005-2006	Member, History Faculty Search (three positions)
1995-2006	History Day Task Force - History Day Judge
1995-2005	Member, Honors Council Interim Director, Interdisciplinary Honors Program (Fall 1998) Honors Scholar-in-Residence Committee (1999-2005) Chair, Committee on Course Definition and New Course Application and Evaluation (2001) Chair, Honors Institute Program Assessment Internal Review Task Force (2005)
2003-2005	Member, Faculty Online Group
2003-2005	Member, Curriculum Advisory Board
2004-2005	Member, History Faculty Search
2004-2005	Co-Chair, Vice President for Academic Affairs Search Committee
2004-2005	Member, History Faculty Search Committee
2004-2009	Created and maintain Department of History website
2003-2004	Member, History Faculty Search Committee (two positions)
2003-2004	Member, Anthropology Faculty Search Committee
2002-2004	Member, Tuition Refund Appeals Committee
2002-2003	Member, Anatomy and Physiology Faculty Search Committee
2002-2003	Member, External Review Task Force, Associate Faculty/Instruction Office Program Assessment
2002-2003	Member, Internal Review Task Force, Program Assessment, History Department
2002-2003	Member, Associate Dean of Social Sciences Search Committee
2001-2003	Member, Vice President for Academic Affairs' College Restructuring Task Force
2001-2002	Member, External Review Task Force, Philosophy Department Program Assessment
2001-2002	Member, Reference Librarian Search
2001-2002	Member, Speech Faculty Search
2001-2002	Member, History Department Textbook Selection Committee
2000-2002	Coordinator (Chair), Department of History, Spring Creek Campus
2000-2001	Member, Sabbatical Leave Committee (elected)
2000-2001	Member, Collin College Mission and Purpose Statement Task Force
1999-2000	Chair, History Faculty Search Committee (two positions)
1998-1999	Member, Selection Committee, Professor of the Year Award
1998-1999	Member, History Department Online Course Committee
1998	Member, Enrollment Management Task Force
1997-1998	Chair, Dean Search Committee, Social Sciences Division
1996-1997	Member, History Faculty Search Committee
1996-1997	Member, Social Sciences Dean Search Committee
1996	Coordinated National Women’s History Month Exhibit, Library Display
1995-1997	Member, Human Relations Task Force
1995-1996	Member, Psychology Faculty Search Committee
1995-1996	Member, English as a Second Language Instructional Associate Search
1995-1996	Member, History Department Program Assessment Task Force
1995	Coordinated National Women’s History Month Exhibit, Library Display
1994-1995	Member, Mathematics Faculty Search Committee

Community Service

2009-2010	Eddie (Sarge) Stimpson, Jr. Community Memorial and Scholarship Committee
2002-2008	Board of Trustees, Heritage Farmstead Museum, Plano, Texas
2007	Chair, Executive Director Search Committee, Heritage Farmstead Museum, Plano, Texas
2001-2009	Member, Selection Committee, Honors Thesis Award, Texas A&M University-Commerce
2004	“Texas Had a Religious Left?” Seniors Active in Learning Lecture Series, Plano, September 30, 2004
2002	"Headed to Reilly Springs," presented to the Hopkins County Genealogical Society, Sulphur Springs, Texas, January 17, 2002.
2002	"The Rural Poor Majority in U.S. History." Guest lecture to "Emeritus Class," Richland College, Richardson, Texas, February 5, 2002.
1998-2001	“An Unfolding: American History, American Quilts,” presented with Stephanie Hanson and Sam Tullock to the Lone Star Quilt Guild, Sulphur Springs, Texas; Allen Quilters' Guild, Allen, Texas; and, McKinney Quilting Guild, McKinney, Texas.
2000	“American History Through American Quilts,” Allen Quilters’ Guild, Allen, Texas
1998-1999	Consulting Scholar, Local History Grant Proposal, Allen Public Library, Allen, Texas
1997	Member, “Community and Crisis. The Heroin Crisis in Plano Committee," Collin College
1996	Co-Chair, “Community and Crisis: A Public Forum on the Greenville, Texas, Church Burnings,” Collin College

Grants and Awards

2009	Best Book on East Texas History, Ottis Lock Endowment Award, for Yeomen, Sharecroppers and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914, by the East Texas Historical Association
2009	T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award for Yeomen, Sharecroppers and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870-1914, by the Texas Historical Commission
2009	“Dr. Kyle Wilkison Scholarship,” Engaged Faculty Scholars, Collin College; scholarship awarded to Anibal M. DeLeon Perez
2008	“Dr. Kyle Wilkison Scholarship,” Engaged Faculty Scholars, Collin College; scholarship awarded to Emil Davtyan
2007	“Dr. Kyle Wilkison Scholarship,” Engaged Faculty Scholars, Collin College; scholarship awarded to Cinde Matkin Rawn
2005	Faculty Study Grant, Collin College: “Readings in Religion, Radical Politics and Plain Folk in the New South"
2003	“Dr. Kyle Wilkison Scholarship,” Engaged Faculty Scholars, Collin College; scholarship awarded to Vanessa Macedo
1997	Outstanding Faculty Member, Division of Social Sciences, Collin College
1990	Ottis P. Locke Research Grant, East Texas Historical Association
1990	First Alternate, Leland Sage Dissertation Award, Vanderbilt University
1985	W. Eugene Hollon Outstanding Graduate Student in History, East Texas State University
1984	Jewell and Jesse Guy Smith Outstanding Graduate Student in History, East Texas State University
1983	Outstanding Senior in History, East Texas State University

Professional Memberships

American Cotton Museum Association
Dallas Area Social Historians' Group
East Texas Historical Association
          Editorial Board, East Texas Historical Journal, 2009-
          Membership Committee, 2009-
Southern Historical Association
Texas Oral History Association
          Board of Directors, 2005 -
Texas State Historical Association
Working Class Studies Association