This report was submitted to the Denton County Commissioner’s Court on December 12, 2023. The independent research contained herein was inspired by a collaborative community effort to highlight the emerging historical narrative of the St. John's freed-persons community of Pilot Point, its unexplained disappearance in the 1930s, and the events that led to the community's cemetery becoming landlocked and inaccessible to the public for more than eighty years.

Poster promoting the Global Studies Faculty Seminar visiting speaker series with Dr. Ussama Makdisi, professor of history at Rice University and Arab-American Educational Foundation Chair of Arab Studies.

Minutes from the Global Studies Faculty Seminar March 2014 meeting.

Minutes from the Global Studies Faculty Seminar February 2014 meeting.

Minutes from the Global Studies Faculty Seminar January 2014 meeting.

Minutes from the Global Studies Faculty Seminar October 2013 meeting.

Minutes from the Global Studies Faculty Seminar September 2013 meeting.

This poster presentation discusses research on a transformative instructional initiative on globalizing curriculum. The project involved students learning about the legacy of Stalinism in modern Russia and connecting students to their virtual peers in Russia via the internet.

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on The Food We Eat. In this presentation, the author discusses race and food habits.

Poster for the 2012 University Forum on Teaching & Learning. This poster discusses a project for a UNT history course, History 4263, on Palestinian history. In the course, students explore historical foundations and interpretations of modern Palestinian history.

This poster describes an experiential learning activity for the UNT course History 5040, Historiography of Stalinism. The goal is to apply critical reasoning to Stalin's politics in a courtroom environment.

Paper for the 2011 ACL Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. This paper discusses topic modeling on historical newspaper.

Paper on mapping texts and combining text-mining and geo-visualization to unlock the research potential of historical newspapers.

This article reviews the book "Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands," edited by Gene Allen Smith and Sylvia L. Hilton.

Book chapter discussing the Peasant Union in the 1920s, the formation of a peasant identity, and modernizing discourse.

Article on the History Engine Project, an online archive consisting of thousands of narratives written and contributed by undergraduates.

This article discusses the image of the future in Russian communism.

Book chapter discussing research on the issues involved in the secession of Virginia around the Civil War, including slavery and politics.

This work discusses Soviet mass perception from the 1920s to the 1930s. This work was supported by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation, grant No. 805/1998, and by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. The work has also greatly benefitted from the discussion at the workshops held by the Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project at CREES, University of Toronto.

This book presents a study of collective representations in Soviet Russia concentrates on perceptions of Lenin's image from a socio-anthropological, rather than political, view. In addition to Communist Party information, official documents, memoirs and folklore, newly opened secret reports of the Soviet political police are used for the first time. The book analyzes the development of the cult from Lenin's lifetime up to the process of "de-Leninization" in the 1990s. Much of the research concerns the perception of Lenin's death and the decision to embalm his body, the campaign called "the Lenin enrollment", renaming of Petrograd and organization of "Lenin Corners". The book also presents new material devoted to Lenin museums, along with archive documents and never-published photographs.