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Joseph Locke

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of History

Email: Joseph.Locke@unt.edu

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • HIST 2610 - United States History to 1865, 1 course.
  • HIST 2620 - United States History Since 1865, 1 course.
  • HIST 3700 - Texas, 1 course.
  • HIST 4462 - Religion in American History, 1 course.

Awards and Honors

  • City of Victoria, Texas, Convention and Visitors Bureau Grant, City of Victoria, Texas, Convention and Visitors Bureau. (2024).
  • Humanities Texas Mini-Grant, Humanities Texas. (2024).
  • Summerlee Foundation Grant, Summerlee Foundation. (2024).
  • Faculty Research and Scholarly Activity Excellence Award, University of Houston-Victoria. (2019).
  • Open Education Resources Grant, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. (2018).
  • Oscar O. Winther Award, Western Historical Association. (2018).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Locke, J., Wright, B. (2019). The American Yawp: A History of the United States, Volumes I & II.
  • Locke, J. (2017). Making the Bible Belt: Texas Prohibitionists and the Politicization of Southern Religion.

    • Book Chapter

  • Locke, J., Wright, B. (2022). “Opening the Book: The Utopian Dreams and Uncertain Future of Open Access Textbook Publishing.
  • Locke, J. (2021). “The Prohibition Crusade and American Moral Politics,”.

    • Book Review

  • Locke, J. (2024). Review of Brendan J.J. Payne, Gin, Jesus, & Jim Crow: Prohibition and the Transformation of Racial and Religious Politics in the South.
  • Locke, J. (2024). Review of Felipe Hinojosa et al, eds., Faith and Power: Latino Religious Politics since 1945.
  • Locke, J. (2022). Review of Barclay Key, Race & Restoration: Churches of Christ and the Black Freedom Struggle.
  • Locke, J. (2020). Review of Gillis J. Harp, Protestants and American Conservatism: A Short History.
  • Locke, J. (2020). Review of Lisa Lindquist Dorr, A Thousand Thirsty Beaches: Smuggling Alcohol from Cuba to the South during Prohibition.
  • Locke, J. (2020). Review of W. David Baird, Churches of Christ in Oklahoma: A History.
  • Locke, J. (2019). Review of Patrick O’Daniel, Crusaders, Gangsters, and Whiskey: Prohibition in Memphis.
  • Locke, J. (2018). Review of Barry Hankins, Woodrow Wilson: Ruling Elder, Spiritual President.
  • Locke, J. (2016). Review of Janet Schmelzer, Our Fighting Governor: The Life of Thomas M. Campbell and the Politics of Progressive Reform in Texas.
  • Locke, J. (2015). Review of David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison, editors, The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism.
  • Locke, J. (2014). Review of H. Paul Thompson, Jr., A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Prohibition in Black Atlanta.
  • Locke, J. (2014). Review of Robert Wuthnow, Rough Country: How Texas Became America's Most Powerful Bible-Belt State.
  • Locke, J. (2011). Review of Kelly McMichael, Sacred Memories: The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas.

    • Encyclopedia Article

  • Locke, J. (2016). “Prohibition” and “Temperance,”.

    • Journal Article

  • Locke, J., Wright, B. (2021). “History Can Be Open Source: Democratic Dreams and the Rise of Digital History,”.
  • Locke, J. (2018). “The Heathen at our Door: Missionaries, Moral Reformers, and the Making of the ‘Mexican Problem,’”.
  • Locke, J. (2012). “Conquering Salem: The Triumph of the Christian Vision in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Texas,”.
  • Locke, J. (2012). “Making ‘South Texas’: Race, Religion, and the Definition of a Region, 1877-1920,”.
  • Locke, J. (2010). “Compelled to Dissent: The Politicization of Rev. John Joachim Zubly, 1760-1776,”.

    • Magazine/Trade Publication

  • Locke, J., Wright, B. (2015). “A Free and Open Alternative to Traditional History Textbooks,”.