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Andrew J. Torget

Title: Professor

Department: History

College: College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of Virginia, 2009
    Major: History
    Specialization: American History
  • MA, University of Virginia, 2002
    Major: History
    Specialization: American History
  • BA, Texas A&M University, 2001
    Major: History

Current Scheduled Teaching

HIST 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
HIST 6950.733Doctoral DissertationFall 2024
HIST 6950.737Doctoral DissertationFall 8W2 2024
HIST 4830.001Rise and Fall of the Slave SouthFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

HIST 6950.719Doctoral DissertationSpring 2024
HIST 6950.718Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
HIST 6950.733Doctoral DissertationFall 2023
HIST 4830.001Rise and Fall of the Slave SouthFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6900.731Special ProblemsFall 2023
HIST 6950.719Doctoral DissertationSpring 2023
HIST 6950.733Doctoral DissertationFall 2022
HIST 6950.719Doctoral DissertationSpring 2022
HIST 5420.001Research Seminar in Local HistorySpring 2022 SPOT
HIST 6900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2022
HIST 4700.001TexasSpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4261.001Topics in US HistorySpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6950.733Doctoral DissertationFall 2021
HIST 4830.001Rise and Fall of the Slave SouthFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6900.901Special ProblemsSummer 10W 2021
HIST 6940.708Individual ResearchSpring 2021
HIST 4700.001TexasSpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2620.008United States History Since 1865Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.733Individual ResearchFall 2020
HIST 5950.733Master's ThesisFall 2020
HIST 6900.719Special ProblemsFall 2020
HIST 4830.001The Old SouthFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.733Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2020
HIST 5900.703Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2020
HIST 6950.713Doctoral DissertationSpring 2020
HIST 6940.708Individual ResearchSpring 2020
HIST 5950.710Master's ThesisSpring 2020
HIST 6900.702Special ProblemsSpring 2020
HIST 5110.001Studies in United States HistorySpring 2020
HIST 4830.001The Old SouthSpring 2020 Syllabus
HIST 6950.733Doctoral DissertationFall 2019
HIST 6900.719Special ProblemsFall 2019
HIST 5950.710Master's ThesisSpring 2019
HIST 5950.800Master's ThesisSpring 2019
HIST 5950.733Master's ThesisFall 2018
HIST 4900.711Special ProblemsFall 2018
HIST 4900.721Special ProblemsFall 2018
HIST 5900.712Special ProblemsFall 2018
HIST 4700.001TexasFall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2620.002United States History Since 1865Fall 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.708Individual ResearchSpring 2018
HIST 5100.002Seminar in United States HistorySpring 2018 SPOT
HIST 4830.001The Old SouthSpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4261.002Topics in US HistorySpring 2018 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 3996.701Honors College Mentored Research ExperienceFall 2017
HIST 6900.719Special ProblemsFall 2017
HIST 4700.001TexasFall 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4900.703Special ProblemsSpring 2017
HIST 5110.001Studies in United States HistorySpring 2017 SPOT
HIST 4700.001TexasSpring 2017 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.712Special ProblemsFall 2016
HIST 4700.001TexasFall 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 6940.733Individual ResearchSummer 5W1 2016
HIST 4700.001TexasSummer 3W1 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.713Special ProblemsSpring 2016
HIST 4700.001TexasSpring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 2620.009United States History Since 1865Spring 2016 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5900.712Special ProblemsFall 2015
HIST 4700.001TexasFall 2015 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 5950.733Master's ThesisSummer 5W1 2015
HIST 5900.703Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2015
HIST 4700.001TexasSummer 5W1 2015 Syllabus SPOT
HIST 4951.002Honors College Capstone ThesisSpring 2015
HIST 5950.710Master's ThesisSpring 2015
HIST 5100.001Seminar in United States HistorySpring 2015
HIST 5900.713Special ProblemsSpring 2015
HIST 4700.001TexasSpring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 4261.004Topics in US HistorySpring 2015 Syllabus
HIST 4951.002Honors College Capstone ThesisFall 2014
HIST 6940.733Individual ResearchFall 2014
HIST 5950.733Master's ThesisFall 2014
HIST 5900.765Special ProblemsFall 2014
HIST 4700.001TexasFall 2014 Syllabus
HIST 5900.703Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2014
HIST 4700.001TexasSummer 5W1 2014 Syllabus
HIST 6940.708Individual ResearchSpring 2014
HIST 5950.751Master's ThesisSpring 2014
HIST 5100.001Seminar in United States HistorySpring 2014
HIST 4900.733Special ProblemsSpring 2014
HIST 5900.713Special ProblemsSpring 2014
HIST 6900.781Special ProblemsSpring 2014
HIST 4700.001TexasSpring 2014 Syllabus
HIST 6940.733Individual ResearchFall 2013
HIST 5950.733Master's ThesisFall 2013
HIST 5900.764Special ProblemsFall 2013
HIST 4700.001TexasFall 2013 Syllabus
HIST 6940.708Individual ResearchSpring 2013
HIST 5950.751Master's ThesisSpring 2013
HIST 5900.713Special ProblemsSpring 2013
HIST 5110.002Studies in United States HistorySpring 2013
HIST 4700.001TexasSpring 2013 Syllabus
HIST 6940.733Individual ResearchFall 2012
HIST 4700.001TexasFall 2012 Syllabus
HIST 6940.708Individual ResearchSpring 2012
HIST 6940.733Individual ResearchFall 2011
HIST 4900.711Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2011
HIST 6900.764Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2011
HIST 4700.001TexasSummer 5W1 2011
HIST 5900.713Special ProblemsSpring 2011
HIST 4700.001TexasSpring 2011 Syllabus
HIST 2620.002United States History Since 1865Spring 2011 Syllabus
HIST 4700.001TexasFall 2010 Syllabus
HIST 4900.711Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2010
HIST 4900.711Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2010
HIST 5900.765Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2010
HIST 6900.764Special ProblemsSummer 5W1 2010
HIST 6900.864Special ProblemsSummer 5W2 2010
HIST 4700.001TexasSummer 5W1 2010
HIST 5110.001Studies in United States HistorySpring 2010
HIST 4700.001TexasSpring 2010
HIST 6900.703Special ProblemsFall 2009
HIST 4700.001TexasFall 2009

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Abstracts and Proceedings

  • Torget, A.J. (2011). Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers. (June 2011) 96-104. Association for Computational Linguistics workshop on Lanugage Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities.
  • Book

  • Torget, A.J. (2022). These Ragged Edges: Histories of Slavery along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press.
  • co-edited with Edward L. Ayers. (2007). Two Communities in the Civil War: A Norton Casebook in History.
  • co-edited with Edward L. Ayers and Gary W. Gallagher. (2006). Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration.
  • Book Chapter

  • Torget, A.J. (2022). “Mapping Texts: Examining the Effects of OCR Noise on Historical Newspaper Collections”. Maud Ehrmann, Estelle Bunout, and Frédéric Clavert, eds., Digtised Newspapers – A New El Dorado for Historians: Tools, Methodology, Epistemology, and the Changing Practices of Writing History. Berlin, De Gruyter Press.
  • Torget, A.J. (2022). "Smuggling and Violence in the Northern Borderlands of New Spain, 1810-1821". These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press.
  • Torget, A.J. (2022). "The Problem of Violence in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands". These Ragged Edges: Histories of Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press.
  • Torget, A.J. (2016). The Problem of Slave Fight in Civil War Texas. Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas. University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Torget, A.J. (2015). The Saltillo Slavery Debates: Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and Slavery’s Future in Nineteenth-Century North America. Linking the Histories of Slavery: North America and Its Borderlands.
  • Author. (2013). "Stephen F. Austin's Views on Slavery in Early Texas". This Corner of Canaan: Essays on Texas in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell.
  • Book Review

  • Torget, A.J. (2018). Review of "The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire" by Karl Jacoby. 98 (4) 735-737.
  • Torget, A.J. (2018). Review of "This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy," by Matthew Karp. Journal of Southern History. 84 (3) 735-737.
  • Torget, A.J. (2015). Review of Railroaded website (digital appendix of Richard White’s 2011 Railroaded). Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
  • Torget, A.J. (2011). Review of Nexus of Empire: Negotiating Loyalty and Identity in the Revolutionary Borderlands, edited by Gene Smith and Sylvia Hilton.
  • Torget, A.J. (2011). Review of Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, by Charles Grear.
  • Torget, A.J. (2007). Review of The American Civil War Center at Historic Tredegar museum in Richmond, Virginia.
  • Torget, A.J. (2004). Review of The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective by Robert Fogel.
  • Edited Book

  • R. B. McCaslin, A. Torget, & D. Chipman. (2013). This Corner of Canaan: Essays in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell. University of North Texas Press.
  • Encyclopedia Article

  • Torget, A.J. (2011). "Texas" in Encyclopedia of Slavery in the Americas, Edward Baptist, ed..
  • Torget, A.J. (2008). "Andrew Jackson" and "Quanah Parker" in Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of Rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty , Donald Fixico, ed., 3 vols..
  • Torget, A.J. (2007). "Mexico City Plot (1612)" in The Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion, Junius P. Rodriguez, ed..
  • Journal Article

  • Torget, A.J. (2023). "Remembering Randolph B. 'Mike' Campbell". Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 126 (3) 291-293.
  • with Scott Nesbit and Robert Nelson. (2012). "A Conversation with Digital Historians".
  • Co-author. (2012). "Building New Windows into Digitized Newspapers".
  • Co-author. (2012). "Mapping Texts: Visualizing American Historical Newspapers".
  • Elisa Yang, Andrew J. Torget, Rada Mihalcea. (2011). "Topic Modeling on Historical Newspapers".
  • Torget, A.J. (2009). "The History Engine: Doing History with Digital Tools,".
  • Torget, A.J. (2006). "Unions of Slavery: Slavery, Politics, and Secession in the Valley of Virginia," in Crucible of the Civil War: Virginia from Secession to Commemoration.
  • Magazine/Trade Publication

  • Torget, A.J. (2016). Cotton Farms, Horse Raids, and the Opening of Texas. 7:2 (October 2016) Texas Insights.
  • Torget, A.J. (2012). "La Gran Inundacion de San Antonio de Bexar".
  • Torget, A.J. (2009). "History Engine: Creating a Writing Assignment for the Digital Age,".
  • Monograph

  • Torget, A.J. (2015). Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850. University of North Carolina Press.
  • Webpage

  • Torget, A.J. (2022). Texas History for Teachers Project. https://education.texashistory.unt.edu/
  • Torget, A.J. (2021). The Digital Austin Papers (digitalaustinpapers.org). digitalaustinpapers.org
  • White Paper

  • Torget, A.J. (2012). Mapping Texts: Visualizing Digitized Historical Newspapers. National Endowment for the Humanities.
  • Torget, A.J. (2010). Visualizing the Past: Tools and Techniques for Understanding Historical Processes. National Endowment for the Humanities.

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Torget, A.J., "Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2012 - 2012).
  • Torget, A.J., "David J. Weber Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America," sponsored by William Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southwestern Methodist University, State, $50000 Funded. (2011 - 2012).
  • Grant - Service

  • Torget, A.J. (Co-Principal), Belden, D.L. (Co-Principal), "Burdine Johnson Foundation Grant for Texas History for Teachers," sponsored by The Burdine Johnson Foundation, Local, $50000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).
  • Torget, A.J. (Co-Principal), Belden, D.L. (Co-Principal), "Barbara Jordan Freedom Foundation grant to Texas History for Teachers Project," sponsored by The Barbara Jordan Freedom Foundation, Local, $7500 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
  • Torget, A.J., "Texas History for Teachers," sponsored by Summerlee Foundation, State, $25000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
  • Beebe, K. (Co-Principal), Martin, J. (Co-Principal), Torget, A.J. (Co-Principal), Moye, T. (Co-Principal), "Learning from Mentors to Create a Center for Digital Humanities at UNT," sponsored by Office of the Provost, University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).
  • Torget, A.J., "Texas History for Teachers," sponsored by Pevehouse Family Foundation, State, $5000 Funded. (2021 - 2021).
  • Torget, A.J. (Co-Principal), Belden, D.L. (Principal), "Texas History for Teachers Project," sponsored by Humanities Texas, NFP, Funded. (2021 - 2022).
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