ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2017-Present   Assistant Professor of History, Schreiner University, Kerrville, Texas.

2008-2022   Online History Instructor, Social Sciences Department, Highline College, Des Moines, Washington.

2016-2017      Lecturer, Department of History and Department of International Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado.

EDUCATION
2015    Doctorate of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder; Boulder, CO

Fields of Specialization: U.S.-Mexican Diplomatic Relations History, Mexican Immigration, Mexican Politics, U.S. Politics, Race and U.S. Society.

2004    Master of Arts, History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Las Vegas, NV

2000    Bachelor of Arts, History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Las Vegas, NV

PUBLICATIONS
2022
Op-Ed: “George Washington, a profile in tenacity and forbearance,” Hill Country Community Journal, February 22.

2021
Book Review of Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941. The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History. By Jessica M. Kim, Western Historical Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2, Summer 2021, pp. 229-230.

Book Review of Deported to Death: How Drug Violence is Changing Migration on the US-Mexico Border, by Jeremy Slack, The Americas, Vol. 78, issue 1, January 2021, pp. 178-179.

2020
Book Review of Beyond the Borders of the Law: Critical Legal Histories of the North American West, Katrina Jagodinsky and Pablo Mitchell, eds., Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 124, No. 2, Oct 2020, pp. 229-230.

Contributor, Special Roundtable: “Reconsidering the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in the Age of COVID-19”. The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 1-31. doi: 10.1017/S1537781420000377

Risking “Immeasurable Harm”: The Diplomacy of Immigration Restriction in U.S.-Mexico Relations, 1924-1932, University of Nebraska Press.

Book Review of Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity, by Laura R. Barraclough. Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 89, number 1, Winter 2020, pp. 151-152.

2019
“Immigration Policy and US Foreign Policy before 1945.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press. Article published August 2019. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.619.

Book Review of They Came to Toil: Representations of Mexicans and Immigrants in the Great Depression, by Melita M. Garza, Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 88, number 2, Spring 2019, pp. 294-296.

Book Review of The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the U.S.-Mexico Border, by S. Deborah Kang, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 122, number 4, April 2019, pp. 480-482.

2018
“‘A Grave Offense of Significant Consequences’: Three Mexican Perspectives      on the U.S. attempt to place a quota on Mexico’s immigration during the late 1920s” Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 87, number 2, pp. 333-355.

2017
Contributor and Editor to Beyond 1917:  American Legacies of the Great War. Oxford University Press.

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
2020     Hollow Building Blocks: Immigration Restriction in the History of U.S.-Mexican Foreign Relations. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference. Virtual: https://adamsigoodman.com/shafr2020/, June 18-20.

2017     Breaking Bonds, Creating Enemies: U.S. Immigration Policy and Its Impact on U.S. Foreign Relations during the Interwar Period. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference. Arlington, VA, June 23-25.

2016    Open Minds and Closed Borders: The Effects of Immigration Restriction on U.S. Foreign Relations. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference. San Diego, CA, June 23-25.

Panel Presentations
2020    “Undermining the Sandbags: How Neoliberalism Encouraged Undocumented Migration, from the 1980s to the early 2000s,” as part of the roundtable, Understanding and Teaching Contemporary American History, Reagan to Trump. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference. Virtual, June 18-20.

The “Quality of Free Man”: National Sovereignty as a bar to the Equality of Peoples–the Mexican anti-quota proposal of April 1928. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference. Virtual: https://youtu.be/6WfcPl-Lj7o, June 18-20.

2018    Roundtable: The Geopolitics of Migration. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference. Philadelphia, PA, June 21-23. Broadcast on C-SPAN III.

2017    “A Grave Offense of Significant Consequences”: Three Mexican Perspectives on the U.S. Attempt to Place a Quota on Mexican Immigration during the 1920s. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference. Arlington, VA, June 23-25.

2017    “No state shall have the right to establish any discrimination”: International pressure against the U.S. effort to restrict Mexican immigration in 1928. The American Historian Association (AHA) annual conference, Denver, CO, January 5-8.

2016    “No state shall have the right to establish any discrimination”: International pressure against the U.S. effort to restrict Mexican immigration in 1928. The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) annual conference, San Diego, CA, June 23-25.

2016    1916: A turning point in U.S.-Mexican Relations, American Historian Association (AHA) annual conference, Atlanta, GA, January 7-10. Broadcast on C-SPAN III.

2009    “A United Empire”: Remembrance of The Fallen as a Form of National Cohesion in post-Great War England, 1918-1920, Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder; Boulder, CO, September 21-23.

2008    “A United Empire”: Remembrance of The Fallen as a Form of National Cohesion in post-Great War England, 1918-1920, Nexus Interdisciplinary Conference: Collected and Collective Identities. University of Tennessee; Knoxville, TN, March 13-15.

Commentator
2015    Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder; Boulder, CO, September 18-20.       

2014    Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder; Boulder, CO, September 12-14.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX, Assistant Professor of History (2017-Present)
United States History up to 1865
United States History since 1865
The History of Mexico
United States-Latin American Relations since 1810
The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975
United States Relations with the Global South since 1945

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, Adjunct Faculty of History (2016-2017)
United States History since 1865
United States Politics and Foreign Relations, 1898 to Present
U.S.-Latin American diplomatic relations since the end of the Cold War
United States Relations with the Global South since 1945
The Vietnam Wars, 1945-1975

Highline College, Des Moines, WA, Sole Instructor (including online, 2006-2022)
United States History, 1492-1815
United States History, 1815-1900
United States History, 1900-Present

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE TO THE FIELD AND TO INSTITUTIONS
2020-present       The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Scholarly Advisory Board, board member

2020-present       The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), Committee on Minority Historians, committee member

2019-present       Academic Affairs Committee, committee member. Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX

2019-2020        Coordinator of Texas Studies. Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX

2018-2019       Quality Enhancement Plan-Advising Committee, chairperson. Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX
Chaired the effort to formulate a plan to improve academic advising and student self-efficacy, as a part of the larger re-accreditation process for Schreiner. This work required weekly committee meetings, coordination with administration, multiple presentations of the plan to faculty, and, ultimately, presentation of the completed plan to Schreiner’s accreditation agency, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC), and individual meetings with SACS-COC representatives.

2017-2018       Quality Enhancement Plan Taskforce, committee member; Faculty Research Taskforce, committee member; Undergraduate Research Committee, committee member. Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX

2013-2014       Senior Assistant Editor, Diplomatic History, University of Colorado, Boulder; Boulder, CO

2011-2013       Junior Assistant Editor, Diplomatic History, University of Colorado, Boulder; Boulder, CO

2009-2011       Executive Planning Committee Member, Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History  Conference, University of Colorado, Boulder; Boulder, CO.

INVITED TALKS; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2018-2019 Lead Scholar: Teaching Literacy through History (a professional development workshop for secondary education social science teachers), The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

• Lecture title: “An Awkward Confluence: Domestic Nativism versus Diplomatic Neighborliness in U.S.-Mexican Relations, 1928” (given as part of the GLI’s annual History Scholar Award program)
  • New York City, NY, June 3, 2019
• Lecture title: “The United States in the Great War Era: Balancing Security with Involvement.”
  • Des Moines, IA, May 11, 2019
  • Chicago, IL, April 6, 2019
  • Frisco, TX, October 27, 2018
• Lecture title: “ ‘The Fusing Heat and Fervor’ of Assimilation: the Americanization Campaign of World War I.”
  • Little Rock, AR, November 2, 2019
  • Newark, NJ, February 26, 2019
• Lecture title: “America: A Nation of Immigrants.”
  • Wichita, KS, June 7, 2018

2022    Lecturer: “George Washington, Revolutionary General,” [two lectures] to the Sons of the American Revolution, Hill Country Chapter, Kerrville, TX, January 11 and February 8.

2021    Lecturer: “Mexican Immigration: Past Precedents and Contemporary Problems,” to the Kerr County Historical Commission, Kerrville, TX, September 20.

2019    Lecturer: “Mexican Immigration: An Intractable and Untrackable Problem?” to Hill Country Chapter of the League of Women Voters (LWV), Kerrville, TX, November 21.

2019    Lecturer: “Crucial Decisions: Fateful Consequences: D-Day as the Linchpin of the Grand Alliance, June 1941 to August 1944” given at the Butt-Holdsworth Memorial Library, in honor of the 75^th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings, Kerrville, TX, June 13.

2019    Lecturer: “The American Revolution of Voting, 1780s to 1820s” given to Sons of the American Revolution, Hill Country Chapter, Kerrville, TX, May 14.

2019    Lecturer: “The Core of Audacity: the Corps of Discovery (Lewis and Clark Expedition) and the Creation of the ‘Westering Nation.’” Chautauqua Speaker Series, Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX, March 5.

2019    Lecturer: “The Mexican Revolution,” to the Dynamic Learning Institute, Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX, January 29.

2018    Lecturer: “The Civil Right to Vote,” to Hill Country Chapter of the League of Women Voters (LWV), Kerrville, TX, November 8.

2018    Lecturer: “The United States: A Nation of Immigrants,” to the Dynamic Learning Institute, Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX, October 9.

2018    Lecturer: “Central American Gangs: The Multi-Point Origins of a Transnational Problem,” to the Hill Country Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX, October 6.

2018    Lecturer: “The Civil Right to Vote,” to mark Constitution Day 2018, Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX, September 17.

2018    Participant, Seminar: The Civil War and American Memory, Lead Scholar: David W. Blight, The Council of Independent Colleges and The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Yale University, New Haven, CT, June 10-15.

2018    Lecturer, “The Waning of Pax Americana?,” as part of the Great Decisions-Foreign Policy Associations, Bulverde, TX, April 5.

2010    Participant, Colorado Learning and Teaching with Technology Conference (COLTT), University of Colorado, Boulder; Boulder, CO; August 7-8.     

2008    Participant, Presenting Data and Information Workshop by Edward Tufte, Seattle, WA, July 15.

2007    Participant, Early College Conference, Simon’s Rock College; Berkshires, MA, August 24-26.

2006    Participant, Digital Storytelling Workshop, University of Colorado, Denver; Denver, CO, November 19-22.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR)
The American Historical Association (AHA)
Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)

AWARDS, GRANTS, & HONORS
2015    Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Colorado, Boulder.
2014    Samuel Flagg Bemis Dissertation Research Grant, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR).
2013    Dean’s Graduate Student Research Grant Award, University of Colorado, Boulder.
2004    Phi Kappa Phi.
2000    Phi Alpha Theta, Psi-Sigma Chapter.

RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
Online learning module systems
Angel: expert
Blackboard: expert
Canvas: expert
Desire to Learn: expert

LANGUAGES
Spanish: reading and writing.