Gregory Kosc
Position: Associate Professor of History
Office: ESEE 1112C (Inside the Math Resource Center
Phone: 817-515-3762
Email: gregory.kosc@tccd.edu
Education
B.A., Gettysburg College, 2000
M.A., Northeastern University, 2004
Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, 2010
Research Interests
My research focuses on travel writing and identity. My dissertation investigated British hunters and their travel writings in the American West from 1865 to 1914. I sought to analyze how the hunters constructed their identities in their accounts. At this point, I have expanded my research to encompass accounts from different geographic areas and to consider female huntress’ writings. While I work on producing a book manuscript from these accounts, I will continue to sprinkle travel writings into my syllabi in order to challenge my students to think about what calculations writers make in crafting their accounts and how essential cross-cultural encounters are to our identities.
2010 - present
2010 - present
2011 “Book Review” of We are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People by Jeffrey
P. Shepherd in Fronteras 20, no. 2 (Fall 2011):
http://www.uta.edu/southwesternstudies/docs/fall2011.pdf
2010 “Quit Surfing and Click on This: One Professor’s Effort to Combat the Problems of Teaching the US Survey in a Large Lecture Hall,” with Stephanie Cole, The History Teacher 43, no. 3 (May 2010): 397-410.
Co-Sponsor – The Historical Underground
Co-Editor – Notes from the Underground
Working with Brad Borougerdi to create a U.S. history survey class with a cultural focus
Selected Publications/Campus Involvement
Courses Taught
HIST 1301, U.S. History from Colonization to Reconstruction
HIST 1302, U.S. History from Reconstruction to Globalization