YOUNG, Nancy Beck 1963-

PERSONAL:

Born November 8, 1963, in Dallas, TX; son of John K., Sr. (a rancher) and Cornelia (a homemaker; maiden name, Watson) Beck; married Mark E. Young (a professor and archivist), November 13, 1993. Ethnicity: "White." Education: Baylor University, B.A., 1986; University of Texas—Austin, M.A., 1989, Ph.D., 1995. Politics: Democrat. Religion: Presbyterian. Hobbies and other interests: Film, literature, gardening.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Department of History, McKendree College, 701 College Rd., Lebanon, IL 62254. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, lecturer in history, 1995-96; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, Clements research fellow, 1996-97; McKendree College, Lebanon IL, assistant professor, 1997-2001, associate professor of history, 2001—. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, fellow, 2003-04.

MEMBER:

Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, Southern Historical Association, Southern Association of Women Historians, Texas State Historical Association.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Ima Hogg Historical Achievement Award, 1996; William Norman Grady Faculty Award, 2001; named professor of the year, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2002; D. B. Hardeman Prize, 2002, for Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture.

WRITINGS:

(With Lewis L. Gould) Texas, Her Texas: The Life and Times of Frances Goff, Texas State Historical Association (Austin, TX), 1997.

Wright Patman: Populism, Liberalism, and the American Dream, Southern Methodist University Press (Dallas, TX), 2000.

Editor, with William D. Pederson and Byron W. Daynes) Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture, M. E. Sharpe (Armonk, NY), 2001.

Lou Henry Hoover: Activist First Lady, University Press of Kansas (Lawrence, KD), 2004.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

The Politics of War: Congress, World War II, and the Modernization of American Governance, completion expected in 2008; Sam Rayburn, Gender, and Texas Politics: From Democratic Texas to Republican Texas.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Journal of Southern History, February, 2003, Karal Ann Marling, review of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture, p. 221.