Ron Goodwin

I remember my first day of history class as an undergraduate. The first day of any class is often stressful but history was particularly difficult. Trying to anticipate what the professor thought was important was a guessing game at best, and in all honesty, my mind often drifted to the many other places I would have rather been than stuck in class trying to pay attention to yet another boring history lesson. How things change. Now, I’m on the “other side” of the desk, teaching history at a historically black university near Houston, Texas.

I completed my undergraduate degree from Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas, while serving on active duty in the US Air Force. After an honorable discharge from the military, I completed graduate degrees from Texas Southern University and currently enrolled in a PhD program focusing on urban planning and the historical development of cities. My research interests include urban history, the impacts of planning decisions on neighborhood development, and the historical development of Texas’ black community as seen through the Texas Slave Narratives.