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English Professor of American Literature and Culture No [42] Jeffrey L. Meikle: History 1979–present Stiles Professor in American Studies Emeritus Yes [43] Harry Moore: Sociology 1937–1966 Sociolologist and Researcher Yes [44] David Oshinsky: Sociology 2002–2013 historian and winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for History for Polio: An ...
Book critic at The Boston Globe, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism [393] Michael Chorost: 1988 2000 MA PhD Author (Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human), authority on cochlear implants and neurally controlled prosthetics [394] J. M. Coetzee: 1968 PhD Winner of 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature [395 ...
Roland Fryer (BS '98) - economist, youngest tenured African-American professor in Harvard University's history, and Time Magazine ' s 2009 100 List [10] Roger Krone (MS '81 Aerospace Engineering) - CEO of Leidos [11] Kelcy Warren (BS '78 Civil Engineering) - Chairman and CEO of Energy Transfer Partners and 143rd richest American in 2013 [12] [13]
Historian of the American West, formerly at Texas Tech, later with the University of Montana: Sankar Chatterjee: Paleontologist: F. Alton Wade: Scientist, leader of the Texas Tech Shackleton Glacier Expedition and namesake of Mount Wade in Antarctica [3] Stephen Graham Jones: Blackfeet author, former associate professor at Texas Tech Burwell B ...
Larry Jeff McMurtry (June 3, 1936 – March 25, 2021) was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. [1] His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted
Moved by the common sight of both the American and Texas flags during his time in Dallas, Jindal successfully campaigned for the right of all citizens of India to fly their nation's flag. [52] [53] To recognize alumni gifts from Mr. Jindal, on October 7, 2011 the School of Management was renamed the Naveen Jindal School of Management. [54] Mike ...
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Thomas A. Bailey, professor of history, former Organization of American Historians president, former Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations president, author of numerous books on diplomatic history and the widely used textbook The American Pageant; Captain Edward L. Beach, Sr., USN (ret.), professor of military and naval history