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Joseph Locke

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of History

Email: Joseph.Locke@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Rice University, 2012
    Major: History
    Dissertation: Making the Bible Belt: Preachers, Prohibition, and the Politiciation of Southern Religion, 1877-1918
  • MA, Rice University, 2009
    Major: History

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. (October 19, 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,”.

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Scholars’ Lab Speaker Series, Democratizing the Digital Humanities: The American Yawp as Case Study, United States of America. (2015 - 2015).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), The University of Mary Washington, Open Texts, Digital History, and Democratic Scholarship, United States of America. (2015 - 2015).

    • Lecture

  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Teaching the Gilded Age, The Politics of the Gilded Age, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), John W. Stormont Lecture Series, Juneteenth: Emancipationist Dreams and the Ritualization of Memory, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Victoria Bicentennial History Symposium, On Commemorations, Statues, and Silences: History and Public Memory in Victoria, Texas, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Locke, J. (Panelist), Open Education Week, Leveraging Grant Funding: Faculty Experiences in Developing & Implementing OER, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Locke, J. (Panelist), Open Texas 2022 Annual Conference, Labor & Compensation in Collaborative OER Creation: The American Yawp as Case Study, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Inaugural John L Nau III Conference on Texas History: Racial Justice and Policing in Texas, Moral Policing and the Racialization of Citizenship in Early-Twentieth Century Texas, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), 2020 Conference on Texas: Resilience, Past, Present, and Future, ‘, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), American Historical Association/American Society of Church History Annual Meeting, ‘The Worst Sort’”: Southern Prohibitionists and the Racialization of Morality, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), The Western Historical Association Annual Meeting, An ‘American Congo’: The U.S.-Mexico Borderlands in the Anglo-American Imagination, 1880-1910, United States of America. (2018 - 2018).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), The Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Democratizing the American History Textbook: Mass Collaboration and The American Yawp, United States of America. (2018 - 2018).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting. Dallas, Texas, America’s Pastor, Texas’s Apostle: Billy Graham’s Five-Decade Membership at First Baptist Dallas, United States of America. (2017 - 2017).
  • Locke, J. (Panelist), Bullock Texas State History Museum, Bootlegging in the Borderlands, United States of America. (2017 - 2017).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), BH and DH: Book History and Digital Humanities Conference, Open Access and the Quest for a Democratic Textbook, United States of America. (2017 - 2017).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), The Association for Information Science and Technology 2017 Symposium, The American Yawp and Open-Source History, United States of America. (2017 - 2017).
  • Locke, J. (Panelist), The American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Is Collaboration Worth It?, United States of America. (2017 - 2017).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), First Annual Texas Digital Humanities Conference, Academic Communities & Crowd-Sourced History: Creating The American Yawp, United States of America. (2014 - 2014).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, Grassroots Righteousness: Calvert District Methodists and the Allure of Moral Politics, United States of America. (2014 - 2014).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Subduing the Saintly: Anticlericalism and the Anti-Prohibition Movement in the South, United States of America. (2013 - 2013).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), The Past and Present of Race and Place in Houston, Texas, ‘Coming into Another Country’: Race, Religion, and Early-Twentieth-Century Perceptions of Houston, Texas, United States of America. (2013 - 2013).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), American Historical Association / Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Annual Meeting, The Burden of the Bible Belt: Senator Morris Sheppard and the Politics of a Christian Nation, United States of America. (2013 - 2013).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Texas State Historical Association Annual Meeting, A ‘Frenzied Fanaticism’: The Scandal of Politicized Religion in Texas, 1908-1918, United States of America. (2011 - 2011).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, The ‘Rural Evangelical Virus’ Reconsidered: Agrarian Resistance to Moral Reform in Texas, 1910-1914, United States of America. (2010 - 2010).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Making ‘South Texas’: Race, Religion, and the Definition of a Region, 1877-1920, United States of America. (2010 - 2010).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), University of Texas American Studies Graduate Student Conference, The Southern Cleric: Religious Identity and Social Division, 1876-1918, United States of America. (2009 - 2009).
  • Locke, J. (Presenter), Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Challenging a Culture: White Evangelicals and the Prohibition Movement in Texas, 1885-1918, United States of America. (2009 - 2009).

    • Scholarly Meeting Contribution

  • Locke, J. (Chair), Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore and the Backcountry, 1760-1835, United States of America. (2014 - 2014).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Locke, J., "Summerlee Foundation Grant," sponsored by Summerlee Foundation, State, $35000 Funded. (2024).
  • Locke, J., "City of Victoria, Texas, Convention and Visitors Bureau Grant," sponsored by City of Victoria, Texas, Convention and Visitors Bureau, Local, $5000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).
  • Locke, J., "Humanities Texas Mini-Grant," sponsored by Humanities Texas, State, $2000 Funded. (2024 - 2024).

    • Grant - Teaching

  • Locke, J., "Open Education Resources Grant," sponsored by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, State, $8000 Funded. (2018 - 2018).

Service

University Service

  • Chairperson, Department of Criminal Justice, Political Science, and History, University of Houston-Victoria. (August 1, 2022 - May 1, 2024).
  • Director, History Program, University of Houston-Victoria. (August 1, 2017 - May 1, 2024).
  • Committee Chair, Martín de León Symposium Committee, University of Houston-Victoria. (August 1, 2015 - May 1, 2024).
  • Committee Member, Course Load Taskforce, University of Houston-Victoria. (January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2020).
  • Committee Chair, Faculty Awards Committee, University of Houston-Victoria. (August 1, 2019 - May 1, 2020).
  • Committee Member, Scholarship Oversight Committee, University of Houston-Victoria. (August 2, 2015 - May 1, 2017).

Public Service

  • Board Member, Museum of the Coastal Bend. Victoria, (January 1, 2023 - August 1, 2023).
  • Chairperson, Museum of the Coastal Bend. Victoria, Texas. (May 1, 2021 - May 1, 2023).

Professional Service

  • Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Texas History. (August 1, 2024 - Present).
  • Other (Editor (Book Reviews), Journal), The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. (January 1, 2020 - May 1, 2024).
  • Committee Chair, Texas Institute of Letters. (August 1, 2022 - May 1, 2023).
  • Committee Chair, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. (August 1, 2020 - May 1, 2021).