Dawn Alexander-Payne has had a long association with the Department of History having been an undergraduate (B.A., 1993) and graduate (M.A., 1995) student, and having served over time as the department's graduate assistant, the administrative assistant, and adjunct teacher, an instructor, and the undergraduate advisor. She is currently working on her Ph.D. at Texas Christian University where she plans to write her dissertation of Alexander Campbell and Humanitarian Reform in the Age of Jackson.
Among Alexander-Payne's achievements have been papers presented before the Southwest Social Science Annual Convention, the Mid-America Conference on History, the Southwest/Texas Popular and American Culture Associations Conference, and more. In 1994 she received the "Lieutenant Colonial Lily H. Gridley Fellowship" to engage in research at the Marine Corps Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C.; from this came the foundation materials for her masters thesis: "Skirt Marines: Women and Social Change in World War I."
