Boom and Bust: The Historical Cycles of Matamoros and Brownsville - Paperback

Kearney, Milo: - Milo Kearney has been professor of history at the University of Texas-Pan American in Brownsville since 1970. Prior to that time, he served as assistant in medieval history at Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, discussion section leader and reader in medieval history at the University of California at Berkeley, and English teacher at the American Institute in Barcelona, Spain.He received his master's and doctorate in history at the University of California at Berkeley. His undergraduate studies were in geology at the University of Texas at Austin. In 1982, he received the Minnie Stevens Piper Award for outstanding college teaching. He was honor graduate at the Fort Meade Army Intelligence School.Knopp, Anthony: - Anthony Keith Knopp has been instructor in history at Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, since 1970. For the past ten years he has been chairman of the Social Science Department. Prior to that time, he served as assistant to the dean of the graduate programs in education, director of programs in teacher education, assistant professor at the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minneapolis, and assistant professor of history at San Antonio College. He received his doctorate in history at Texas Tech University in 1973 and did undergraduate work at the college of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota. He is vice-president of the Faculty Association at Texas Southmost College and president of the Brownsville Historical Association.Gawenda, Peter B.: - Peter B. Gawenda received a doctorate in educational administration from the University of Houston and presently serves as assistant to the president and director of Institutional Research and Planning at the University of Texas-Pan American at Brownsville. A native of Germany, he developed a hobby of art into a career and now paints, illustrates, and sculpts with modern and conventional media. He has exhibited in Germany, the United States, France, the Netherlands, Mexico, and other countries.