Dr. Thomas M. Spencer
Director of Honors Student Affairs Fax: 581-7222INTRODUCTION
Hello! I'm the Director of Honors Student Affairs here at Eastern. If you are an honors student and have an issue, please do let me know.
I come to Eastern after 15 years as a faculty member and Director of the Honors Program at Northwest Missouri State University. I have taught 20 different courses as well as more than 5,000 students over the years. I have published three books and numerous articles about Missouri history. In 2012, I decided to follow a career path into Honors administration which brought me to EIU.
I come to Eastern after 15 years as a faculty member and Director of the Honors Program at Northwest Missouri State University. I have taught 20 different courses as well as more than 5,000 students over the years. I have published three books and numerous articles about Missouri history. In 2012, I decided to follow a career path into Honors administration which brought me to EIU.
Education & Training
B.A., History, Trinity University, 1990M.A., History, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1992
PhD, History, Indiana University-Bloomington, 1996
Publications
The St. Louis Veiled Prophet Celebration: Power on Parade, 1877-1995 (Columbia: The University of Missouri Press, 2000).Editor and Contributor, The Other Missouri History: Populists, Prostitutes, and Regular Folk (Columbia: The University of Missouri Press, 2005).
Editor and Contributor, The Missouri Mormon Experience (Columbia: The University of Missouri Press, 2010).
Professional Affiliations
Committee Member, Teaching & Learning and External Relations Committees, National Collegiate Honors CouncilMember, American Historical Association
Member, Missouri State Historical Society