German-Texan Heritage Society, The Journal, Volume 38, Number 3, Fall 2016 Page: 4

                                
OUR SPEAKERS

Dr. James Kearney will speak about his research on the relationship between Friedrich Strubberg and the Con
ches. His paper is entitled "Friedrich Armand Strubberg and the Penateka Comanches of Central TX." Dr. Kea
received a cross-disciplinary Ph.D. in history and German from the Department of Germanic Studies at UT-Au
where he currently works as an adjunct instructor in history. His publications include - Nassau Plantation:
Evolution of a German Texas Slave Plantation (University of North Texas Press, 2010)which was nominated for
Tullis award; Friedrichsburg by Friedrich Armand Strubberg which he translated, annotated, and illustr
(University of Texas Press, 2012) which was the winner of the Summerfield G. Roberts Award for the best T
Book of 2012; "European Immigration in Texas in the 19th Century," in Appreciating Texas History, Bruce Gla
and Light Townsend Cummins, eds. (University of Oklahoma Press;) Co-author of a translation of Detlev Du
Reise nach Texas im Jahre 1833, with critical annotation, which was the first book published in Germany about
as. He is currently under contract with the University of Texas Press for another book entitled, The Complete Hi
ry of The Society for the Protection of German Emigrants in Texas. A GTHS board member, he has recently b
elected as a member of the TX Institute of Letters for his scholarship on German-Texans.
Dr. Christopher Wickham, a professor of German at the University of TX at San Antonio, will present "Cultura
termediary in TX: Emil Kriewitz between Germans and Comanches." Dr. Wickham received a B.A. in German
Linguistics and an M.Phil. in German from the University of Reading (UK). His doctorate was earned in Ger
Literature at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He has served on the UTSA Faculty Senate and the nati
executive council of the American Association of Teachers of German. He is on the editorial board of Monatsh
fur deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur. Dr. Wickham was for many years a summer faculty member at the pre
ious German School at Middlebury College and leads the study abroad program UTSA in Munich. He is the au
of Constructing Heimat in Postwar Germany: Longing and Belonging and is co-editor of Framing the Past: The
toriography of German Cinema and Television and "Was in den alten Buchern steht ...": Neue Interpretationen
der Aufklarung zur Moderne. His published articles include studies on Austrian and German cinema, German p
ry, dialect, regional culture, portrayals of Native Americans by German painters, and the writer, botanist and trav
Adelbert von Chamisso.
Dr. Kenneth Hafertepe, chair of the Department of Museum studies at Baylor University, will present material f
his latest two books, The Material Culture of German Texans, and Historic Buildings of Fredericksburg and Gille
Co. Prior to his arrival at Baylor he was director of academic programs at Historic Deerfield, a museum of New E
land history and art. He serves as the chair of the Committee on Museum Professional Training of the American
sociation of Museums. A long-time member of the Texas State Historical Association, he has served on several
gram committees and chaired that committee twice. He is also a longtime member of the Society of Architect
Historians. He is the author of numerous books and articles on such historic buildings as the Smithsonian Castle
French Legation in Austin, and the Spanish Governor's Palace in San Antonio, as well as a biography of Abner C
the architect of the Texas Governor's Mansion. He holds the master's and doctoral degrees in American civilize
from the University of Texas at Austin. His areas of specialization include American material culture, decorative
and historic preservation.
Dr. Walter Kamphoefner will present, "German-Slavic Relations in Texas and the Midwest." Of Missouri Ger

heritage, he earned his Ph.D. at University of Missouri-Columbia in 1978 and has been professor of history at T
A&M since 1988, where he teaches in the field of immigration history. He was recognized by his peers in the Or
ization of American Historians as a Distinguished Lecturer for 2012-17. Currently president of the Society for
man-American Studies, he has published widely in the field of immigration and ethnicity, with articles in four
guages and three books out in both German and English. One of the pioneers of transatlantic linkage studies with
monograph The Westfalians: From Germany to Missouri (Princeton, 1987), he has since worked intensively
immigrant letters, but also has research interests in bilingual education and the immigrant language transition. S
arriving at Texas A&M, he has taken Booker T. Washington's advice to "cast down your bucket where you are,
that he now knows almost as much about Texas Germans as about those in his native Missouri.
Dr. David Chroust earned his Ph.D. in history from TX A&M where he works as a Slavic Resources Librarian at
Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. A specialist in Czech history his dissertation concerned the developme
of the Czech language press in 19th century America, the role it played in Czech involvement in the labor moveme

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