Three department faculty members involved in the Senior Essay program are published historians who enrich their considerable teaching experience with a significant record of research and writing.

Daniel W. Bjork, Professor

Professor Bjork has focused his research, writing and much of his teaching on United States biography, especially lives of American psychologists. He has used biography as a window into the understanding of larger cultural and intellectual contexts in national life. His books are the following:

• B. F. Skinner: An American Life. New York: Basic Books, 1993. Reprinted APA Books 1997.
• The Compromised Scientist: William James in the Development of American Psychology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.
• William James: The Center of His Vision. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Reprinted APA Books 1998.
• The Victorian Flight: Russell Conwell and the Crisis of American Individualism. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1978.

Gerald E. Poyo, Professor

Professor Gerald E. Poyo is a historian of Latin America and U.S. Latinos and focuses his research on the intersection of these two fields. His publications range from the origins of Hispanic identity and community in eighteenth century Texas to Cuban Catholics in the United States after the rise of Fidel Castro in the latter half of the twentieth century. His book publications are the following:

• Cuban Catholics in the United Stated, 1960-1980: Exile and Integration. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007
• Presente! U.S. Latino Catholics from Colonial Times to the Present. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2000. Documentary history compiled and edited with Timothy Matovina.
• Tejano Journey, 1770-1850. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Edited collection.
• Tejano Origins in Eighteenth Century San Antonio. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991. Edited collection with Gilberto M. Hinojosa.
• "With All, and for the Good of All": The Emergency of Popular Nationalism in the Cuban Communities of the United States, 1848-1898. Durham: Duke University Press, 1989. Spanish language edition: Con Todos, y Para Bien de Todos La Habana: Editorial Ciencias Sociales, 1998.

Teresa Van Hoy, Assistant Professor

Professor Van Hoy's research interests include Mexican and U.S. Latino history. She has written on Mexican social history and currently focuses on migrations and peregrinations in order to study gendered expression of faith and war. Her publications are the following:

• A Social History of Mexico's Railroads: Peons, Prisoners, and Priests. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008.
• "La Marcha Violenta? Railroads and Land in Nineteenth Century Mexico," Bulletin of Latin American Research [BLAR], London, 19:1 (January 2000).