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Dr. Thomas M. Spencer
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Dr. Thomas M. Spencer

Director of Honors Student Affairs Fax: 581-7222

INTRODUCTION

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.

Education & Training

B.A., History, Trinity University, 1990
M.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 Council
Member, American Historical Association
Member, Missouri State Historical Society