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Alan Tully, Chair GAR 1.104, Mailcode B7000, Austin, Texas 78712 • 512-471-3261

Don E. Carleton

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Senior Lecturer; Executive Director, Briscoe Center for American History

Ph.D., 1978, University of Houston

Contact

E-mail:
http://www.cah.utexas.edu/about/bio_drcarleton.php
Phone: 512-495-4684
Office: SRH 2.101
Office Hours: FALL 2011: by appointment only

Biography

Research interests

Dr. Carleton is the director of the Center for American History and holder of the J. R. Parten Chair in the Archives of American History. His research interests include 20th century U.S. political and news media history.

Awards/Honors

Texas State Historical Association's Coral Tullis Award for the most important book on Texas published in 1985 (Red Scare); the Texas Institute of Letters award for the book written by a Texan in 1998 that has made the greatest contribution to knowledge (A Breed So Rare); and Fellow, Texas State Historical Association. Listed in Who's Who in America, he is an elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas.

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