Ronald Brown

Professor
Office: TMH-212
Email: rb04@txstate.edu
Phone: 512.245.2067

Curriculum Vitae

Educational Background:
Ph.D. - University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
M.A. - University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign
A.B. - Wabash College

Recent Research Topics:
His research interests focus on American history with emphases on the Trans-Mississippi West, mining, labor, and higher education.  He is currently conducting research on the Civilian Conservation Corps, mining engineers, the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (formerly the Western Federation of Miners), and the history of Texas State University.

Ronald C. Brown is a professor of history and came to Texas State in 1975 He served briefly as institutional archivist (1978-81), director of the Honors Program (1980-1995) and 22 years in administration (1995-2017). He is a founding member, past president and former treasurer of the Mining History Association. He is a member of various professional organizations in history. He coordinated a three-year program in oral history with NASA, a two-year program in Texas Music History and regularly conducts and consults on oral history. He currently teaches American history surveys, the undergraduate course and graduate courses on the American West.

Professional Memberships:
Mining History Association, Oral History Association, Western History Association, Association of American Colleges & Universities.

Previous Publications:
 His book length publications include Hard-Rock Miners: The Intermountain West; Beacon on the Hill: Southwest Texas State University, 1903-1978;  with David Nelson, Up the Hill, Down the Years: A Century in the Life of the College at San Marcos; and Duane Smith, No One Ailing Except a Physician: Medicine in the Mining West; and New Deal Days: The CCC at Mesa Verde