Tracy M. Shilcutt
Department of History, Abilene Christian University
ACU Box 28130, Abilene, Texas 79699
325. 674.2370
tracy.shilcutt@acu.edu

Education:

Ph.D. Texas Christian University, May 2003.
Major Field: American History
Minor Fields: Modern European History, Modern British History

M. Div. Abilene Christian University, in progress.

M.A.  Abilene Christian University, 1993.
Field: American History with an emphasis in Public History.

B.A. Abilene Christian University, 1980.
Major: Political Science

Current Status: 

Chair, Department of History
Associate Professor of History, Abilene Christian University (ACU)

Teaching Experience:

2009-present- Associate Professor of History, ACU.

Spring 2012- Faculty in Residence, Study Abroad, Oxford England, ACU.

2010- Instructor, Honors Cornerstone.

2003-2009- Assistant Professor of History, ACU.

2009- Instructor, Honors Integrated Core (IC2) Pilot.

2008- Instructor, Honor’s Cornerstone Pilot.

2004-present- Colloquia Instructor, Honors Program, ACU.                                      

2003-2007- Instructor and Advisor, University Seminar, First Year Program, ACU.                                     

August 2003- Instructor, Study Abroad, Oxford England, ACU.

2002-2003- Instructor of History, ACU.

Fall 2001; Summer 2002- Adjunct instructor, ACU.

Spring1996; 1998-1999- Adjunct instructor, McMurry University, Abilene, Texas.

Summer 2000              

Spring 2000- Graduate Teaching Instructor, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas.

Publications:

Books:

Tracy M. Shilcutt with David Coffey and Donald S. Frazier, Historic Abilene: An Illustrated History. Austin, Texas, 2000.

Articles in Journals:

“Soldiers were everywhere:  Abilene and Camp Barkeley, Texas 1940 to 1945,” Sound Historian, Journal of the Texas Oral History Association, Volume 12, 2009.

Articles in Encyclopedias:

“Nurses, Military,” in International Encyclopedia of Military History, James C. Bradford, ed. Routledge, 2004.                                 

“Clarissa H. Barton,” “Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke,” “Sherian Grace Cadoria,” “Margaret Corbin,” “Dorothea Lynde Dix,” “Mary Agnes Hallaren,” “Oveta Culp Hobby,” “King William’s War,” “Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley,” “Alden Partridge,” “Julia Catherine Stimson,” “Sally Louisa Tompkins,” and “Mary Edwards Walker,” in Encyclopedia of U.S. Military History, Spencer Tucker, ed. New York, 2003.

“Albert Sidney Johnston,” “Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston,” in The United States and Mexico at War: Nineteenth Century Expansionism and Conflict, Donald S. Frazier, ed. New York, 1998.

Book Reviews:

Medic!, How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs. By Robert “Doc Joe” Franklin, Red River Valley Historical Journal (Winter 2007): 139-140.

Professional Presentations and Activities:

April 2011. Director, Phi Alpha Theta Regional Conference, hosted at Abilene
Christian University by the Zeta Beta Chapter.

2010. Referee, Statehouse Press, Abilene Texas; one manuscript.

March 2009. Commentator: Session-“A Corner of the Canvas: How local history
informs broader themes of Texas history,” Texas State Historical
Association, 2009 Annual Meeting, Austin Texas.

April 2008. Chair: “Session 15, Cold War,” Phi Alpha Theta, North Central Regional
Meeting, Texas Weslyan, Fort Worth, Texas.

April 2008. Judge, Best Graduate and Undergraduate papers, Phi Alpha Theta, North
Central Regional Meeting, Texas Weslyan, Fort Worth, Texas.

March 2008. "'Soldiers Were Everywhere': Camp Barkeley and Abilene, Texas, 1940-
1945," Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Corpus
Christi, Texas.

November 2007. “Born in Blood,” Chautauqua Lecture, McWhiney Foundation, Buffalo
Gap, Texas.

March 2005. “Combat Aid Men in World War II: The Front Line Experience,”
Southwest Social Sciences Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans,
Louisiana.

September 2002. “First Link in the Life Chain: World War II Infantry Combat Medics in
Europe.” Mid-America Conference on History, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

March 1999. “Dancing Under the Texas Stars: Social Relationships and Morale
Building at Camp Barkeley.” Southwest Social Sciences Association
Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas.

January 1998. “Planting the Seed: From Bluebonnet Brigade to Memorial Museum.”
Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference, Lubbock,
Texas.

April 1995. “Camp Barkeley and World War II.” Historic Preservation Conference,
Austin, Texas.

February 1995. “The Bluebonnet Brigade: Women, Volunteerism, and the Homefront in
World War II.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association
Conference, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

March 1993. “The Bluebonnet Brigade: Women and War in Abilene Texas.” Southwest
Social Sciences Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Public History, Professional Experience:

1997-1999. Collections Manager, McWhiney Foundation, Abilene, Texas.

1993-1995. Curator of Exhibitions and Collections, Grace Museum (formerly the Museums of
Abilene), Abilene, Texas.

1993. Exhibit Designer, Texas and Pacific Railroad Exhibit Project, Grace Museum,
Abilene, Texas.

Public History, Museum Interpretive Projects and Curated Exhibitions:

1999- Homefront Abilene, 1941-1945, history exhibit, Grace Museum. Research, Design,Production, and Installation.

1995- The Working Cowboy: Photographs from the Frank Reeves Collection.  Grace Museum. Design, Production, and Installation. Research in collaboration with the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University. 

1995- Joel Phillips: The Contemporary West.

Grace Museum, Design and Installation.

1995- Curator’s Choice: Works from the Permanent Collection.

Grace Museum, Research, Design, and Installation.

1995- A Tale of Two Cities: Dallas and Fort Worth Schools of Art.

Grace Museum, Research, Design, and Installation.

1994- Treading the West: A History of the Cowboy Boot, history exhibit, Grace Museum. Research, Design, Production, and Installation.

1994- Juanita Tittle Pollard:  A 50 Year Retrospective.

Grace Museum, Research, Design, and Installation.

1994-  Selections from the Ben E. Keith Collection of Western Art.

Grace Museum, Co-curated with Terence Keane.

1994- Looking Back: 50 Years of Annual Competitions in Abilene.

Grace Museum, Research and Installation.

Consulting and Preservation Projects:

1996-present- Public History Consulting:

Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas; Women of ACU Museum, Abilene Christian University; 12^th Armored Division Memorial Museum, Abilene, Texas; Jay Moore, Abilene Documentary series.

2007- Consulting, Abilene Library Consortium Digitization Project, Carisse Berryhill and Devrha Bennett.

August 2002- Assistant Director, Ridgewell Air Base Site Survey Project, Ridgewell, East Anglia, England, Vernon L. Williams, Director.

2001- “Historical and Architectural Development of the Historic Courthouse Master Plan,” primary historical research and manuscript production for the 1915 Taylor County Courthouse: Restoration Project, presented to the Texas Historical Commission, 2001.

1995- Museum Workshop, “How to do Oral History Interviews,” presented to the Women of ACU Museum.

1994- Co-Chair, Bluebonnet Brigade/Camp Barkeley Reunion, Abilene, Texas. Projects included: Oral Histories, Memorabilia Room, Banquet, Panel Discussions, “Abilene: Then and Now” bus tour, and Camp Barkeley Excavation. Jointly sponsored by the Grace Museum, the Taylor County Historical Commission, and the Abilene Christian University Department of History, 1994.

1992-93- Project Director, The Bluebonnet Brigade/Barkeley Oral History Project, sponsored by the Department of History, Abilene Christian University.

University Service, Abilene Christian University:

2012. Chair, Department of History.

2012. CAS Representative, University Undergraduate Council.

2010-2011. Immediate Past Chair, Faculty Senate.

Fall 2010. Member, Heritage Task Force.

2009-2010. Chair, Faculty Senate.

2009. Member, Presidential Search Committee.

2008-2009. Chair-elect, Faculty Senate.

Spring 2008. Member, ACU 21st Century Vision: Preparation of the Strategic Plan
(VLT) Curricular Programs, Honor’s College.

2007-2008. CAS Representative, Faculty Senate.

2007-2008. Member, Broom Colloquium for Missions and World Christianity
Advisory Committee.

March 2007. Participant, Faculty focus group on alternative learning space
design.

2006. Member, Search and Review Committee for the Director of
Faculty Enrichment.

Fall 2006-Spring 2008. Member, Special Task Force on Faculty Workload.

2005-2008. Member, Honor’s Advisory Council.

2005-2007. Member, Quality of Life Committee.

2005-2010. New Faculty Mentoring Program.

Spring 2005. Member, Faculty Search Committee, external resource person,
Department of Sociology, ACU.

Spring 2005. Interviewer, Presidential Scholars.

2004-2007. Member, University Seminar Council, First Year Program.

2004-2007. Member, Passport/Welcome Week Steering Committee, First
Year Program.

2004-2006. Member, Think Tanker on Innovative Learning, Center for
Teaching Excellence.

2004-2007. Member, Friends of the ACU Library Board of Directors.

2004-2005. Chair, VISTA (Behavioral Sciences Committee).

2003-2004. President, Executive Board, Friends of the ACU Library.

2002-2006. Member, ACU Centennial Collections Task Force.

2001-2002. Secretary, Executive Board, Friends of the ACU Library.

Department of History Activities, Abilene Christian University:

2007-present. Preparer, Annual Outcome Assessments.

Spring 2007. Acting Chair, Department of History.

2004-present. Liaison, Brown Library and Department of History.

Advising and Mentoring Students, Abilene Christian University:

2012. Chair, Honors Capstones, Amanda Arzigian and Dustin Janssen.

2012. Committee member, GST Masters Thesis, Shaun Grubbs.

2010. Committee member, Honors Capstone, Rebekah Childers.

2009. Faculty mentor, Gardner Dorm.

2008. Director, Honors Capstone, Doug Mann.

2008. Committee member, Honors Capstone, Kathryn Barnard.

Spring 2008. Mentor, UNIV245 Leadership Foundations, Hutton Harris.

2008-present. Advising, Department of History majors.

Fall 2007. Faculty sponsor- Barret pod, a “Living and Learning” community.

Spring 2006-2008. Co-sponsor with Cole Bennett, ACU Swing-Cats.

2004-2006. Director, Peer Leader, First Year Program, ACU.

Fall 2004. Faculty Mentor, McNair Scholars.

Summers 2003-2009. Volunteer, ACU Leadership Camps.

2003-2007. Advisor, University Seminar students.

2002-2011. Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society.

2002-2003. Mentor, ACU Spring Break Campaign, Maine 2003.

Institutional and Community Presentations:

Sept. 2012. Presenter, “Homefront Abilene” Abilene Area Chapter, Military Officers Association.

Sept/Oct 2010. Co-presenter with Dr. Steven Moore, “Worldview” Cornerstone Spotlight.

August 2009. Presenter, CAS Opening session: Thinking and Teaching about
Community, with Dan McGregor and Cole Bennett.

September 2008. Presenter, “Discipleship and Discipline within the Academy” with Cole
Bennett, September Summit, Abilene Christian University.

March 2008. Speaker, “Combat Medics.” Key City Kiwanis, Abilene, Texas.

February 2008. Interviewee, The Writing Process, for the Writing Center, Joel Overall,
interviewer (podcast).

February 2008. Guest panelist (along with Mark Hamilton and Jon Camp): Peace
Colloquium, co-taught by David Dillman and Paul Morris.

September 2007. Presenter, Abilene Christian University Ninetieth Annual Lectureship,
Panel: “The Time is Fulfilled, the Kingdom is Near: Evangelism Among
Missional Churches.”

August 2007. Presenter, “Cultivating Intellectual Virtues: Charity as an Intellectual
Virtue,” CAS Faculty Pre-session.

March 2007. Making Choices Know Boundaries, Chapel Forum, Cullen Auditorium.

March 2007. "Lighting is everything!" Art and Design Chapel.

March 2007. Speaker, Phi Eta Sigma Induction.

November 2006. “Encore Presentation! American Identity in the Modern Period: The
Development of an Integrated Course,” Adams Center with Dan
McGregor and Cole Bennett.

October 2006. “Perception” GSA Chapel presentation.

February 2006. Presenter, Abilene Christian University Eighty Eighth Annual
Lectureship, Panel: “Spiritual Pollution.”

August 2005. Presenter, “The academic life and Christian virtues,” Faculty Pre-session.

January 2005. Speaker, Abundant Life, a program sponsored by Human Resources.

April 2004. Participant, CTE panel on service-learning, Cole Bennett, moderator.

October 2002. “World War I in Abilene.” Abilene Public Library, Abilene, Texas.

Grants/Awards:

Fall 2011. Faculty Renewal Leave, “Radio London, Pirates, and Rock-n-Roll: Breaking the BBC Monopoly, 1964-1967.”

2010. Trustee Award, Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

2006. Cullen Grant, Abilene Christian University,
Completed manuscript that analyzes the role and contributions of combat medics in the European Theater of Operations during World War II; manuscript now in submission with Texas A&M Press.

2005. First Year Program: University Seminar Teacher of the Year.

2005. CTE Summer Stipend, Abilene Christian University.
Collaborative development of the integrated American Identity special topics course; Dan McGregor, Cole Bennett, Tracy Shilcutt.                           

2000. Teaching Assistant, Department of History, Texas Christian University.

1998-2001. Graduate Assistant, Department of History, Texas Christian University.

1998-2000. Project Chair for the Elks Lodge Restoration Project.

Abilene Preservation League; grants awarded, $919,000: Dodge Jones Foundation, City of Abilene, Meadows Foundation, Dian Graves Owen Foundation, TC Campbell Foundation, Preservation Trust Fund (Texas Historical Commission).

1995. Primary grant-writer for major sponsor underwriters for “Chihuly alla Macchia,” Grace Museum; grant awarded, $8,000 from Tim and Debbie Lillick.

1994. Primary grant writer for darkroom construction and equipment, Grace Museum; grant awarded, $1,200.

1994. Staff participant for National Endowment for the Humanities Self-Study, Grace  Museum; grant awarded, approximately $20,000.

Community Service:

2012. Volunteer, National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature.

2010-2011. Volunteer, Christian Ministries of Abilene.

2007. Member, Visiting Committee, Department of Humanities, Lubbock
Christian University.

2005. Board of Review, Eagle Scout, Ben Reeves.

2004-2008. Ministry leader, Youth Ministry, Highland Church of Christ.

2002. Volunteer, Texas Historical Association, Junior Historian Competition.

2001. Volunteer, Salute to Veterans of World War II, Abilene Philharmonic,
William J. Teague, Chairman.

1999-2004; 2008. Volunteer, Christian Ministries of Abilene.

1997- 1998. Commissioner; Landmarks Commission, City of Abilene.

1995-2002. Member, Board of Directors; Abilene Preservation League.

Spring 1995. Advisor, Frank Reeves Photographic Collection, Texas Tech University.

1993- present. Speaker, Abilene civic and community organizations.

1992- present. Commissioner, Taylor County Historical Commission.

1978- 2000. Volunteer, American Red Cross, Big Country Chapter.

1968-present. Member, Highland Church of Christ.

Professional Affiliations:

2005-present. Society for Military History

2005-present. Southwestern Social Sciences Association.

2005-present. Southwestern Historical Association.

2002-Present. American Historical Association.