Reporter, photographer and editor, Woodward, OK, 1979-88

Assistant editor, True West/Old West magazines, Stillwater, OK, 1990-95

Teaching assistant, OSU history department, 1988-90

Professor of history, Southwestern Adventist University, 1997-present

Online editor, U.S. Foreign Policy, About.com, 2011-2014

18-hour grad subfield, political science, UT Arlington, 2001

Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1997

M.A. History, Oklahoma State University, 1990

B.A. Journalism, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, 1988

Cesare Lombroso: The Father of Criminology,  with Dr. Randy Butler and Dr. Alex del Carmen, under contract with Kendall-Hunt for publication, 2017. 

 The Right Hand of Command: Use and Disuse of Personal Staffs in the Civil War, Stackpole Books, 2000.