TAMIU Annual Report 2019

2019 Annual Report / AWORLDOF DIFFERENCE Faculty/ DIFFERENCE 8 Dr. Thompson Gets Historical Award, Pens New Book on Grandfather This past March, Texas A&M International University Regents Professor Dr. JerryD. Thompsonwas named the recipient of the Texas State Historical Association’s 2018 Kate Broocks Bates Award for Historical Research for his Pulitzer Prize-nominated publication, Tejano Tiger: José de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-México Borderlands, 1823-1891. The Award was presented in Corpus Christi during the Fellows Luncheon and Presentation of Awards. Thompson has been a TAMIU facultymember since 1987 and serves as one of the country’s leading experts on the Civil War in the Southwest. He has taught for the past 50 years and is author or editor of 26 books on the US-México borderlands. His latest book is Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls: Joe LynchDavis and the Last of theOklahoma Outlaws (The University of Oklahoma Press) and sees Dr. Thompson sleuthing into his own past to discover a man at the center of systematic cattle rustling, feuding, gun battles, a bloody rangewar, bank robberies, and train heists in early 1900s Indian Territory and Oklahoma…his own grandfather. A Daisy for the Canseco School's Dr. González Texas A&MInternational University clinical assistant professor of nursingDr. Belva González was named the 2019 recipient of theDiseases Attacking the Immune System, or DAISY Faculty Award. TheAward recognizedher commitment to the success of TAMIU students. “The prestigious DAISY FacultyAward is given to a nursing facultymemberwho serves as both a role model and mentor within the nursing profession; to someone who has consistently demonstrated enthusiasm for teaching and learning; and [practices] nursing that inspires andmotivates students,” explained TAMIU InterimDean Dr. Marivic Torregosa. González has beena facultymember at theDr. F.M. Canseco School of Nursing since 2002. She earned her Doctorate of Philosophy at the University ofWisconsin-Milwaukee, as well as bothMaster’s and Bachelor’s degrees inNursing at Texas A&MUniversity-Corpus Christi. Established in 1999, the DAISY Faculty Award was created in memory of J. Patrick Barnes, who died from complications of an auto-immune disease. Inspired by the compassion and clinical skills of the nurses who cared for Barnes, his family decided to create the Award to recognize exceptional nurses. Dr. Momen Takes a Look at Political Satire Political satire today often seems relegated to biting social and digitalmedia posts. Texas A&MInternational University’sDr.Mehnazz Momen, associate professor of Public Administration, has expanded that fleeting view with a deep dive into political satire’s rich history and evolution. Dr. Momen is the author of Political Satire, Postmodern Reality, and the TrumpPresidency:WhoArewe LaughingAt? (LexingtonBooks, 2019). In the book, she explores why satire fails in the Trump era. She delves into the history of political satire through literature and cartoons and examines how andwhy it changedwith the advent of television. A segment of the book also includes an analysis of the Trump campaign and its techniques as well as strategies that were borrowed frommedia and applied to politics. “Inmy book, I argue that themediahas encouraged the presentation of politics as entertainment and showwith evidence howpolitical coverage has changed in tone and substance,” she said. Momen, a TAMIU faculty member since 2002, is also the author of The Paradox of Citizenship in American Politics: Ideals and Reality (Springer, 2018).