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Curriculum Vitae
Monty J. Thornburg, Ph.D.
PO Box 852
Eutaw, AL 35462
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Education and Experience
Retired: (last) Teacher and Administrator: June 10, 2018. Mariposa Unified School District (MCUSD), 16 years of service.
Past: President, John Muir Geotourism Center, Coulterville, CA.
Present: (founder) Sunfield Humanities Research: Independent, historical, social, and educational research.
Publication Blog: Notes from the Freedom Farm Civil Rights Museum. Greene County, Alabama.
Degrees:
2001 Ph.D. University of New Orleans, Educational Leadership, UNO College of Education
1986 M.S. University of New Orleans, Urban Studies, UNO College of Urban and Regional Studies
1969 B.A Golden Gate University, Economics
1968 B.A. Golden Gate University, Business Administration
Other Colleges:
2003-2004 Association of CA School Administrators (ACSD) Superintendent’s Academy: California State University, Fresno
2000 Washington State University, Pulman – Summer Doctoral Fellowship Program
1999 David L. Clark Graduate Student Seminar; UCEA and AERA, Montreal, CN
1986-1990: Delgado Community College, New Orleans, LA
1981-1982 Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana, Oil Well Technology
1970-1971 Teacher Certification: Tulane University, Teacher Assistantship Prog. Elem. Schools (TAPES) New Orleans, LA
1971 Xavier University, New Orleans
1968-1969 (formerly Livingston University) The University of West Alabama, National Teacher Corps Program
Work Experience 50 Years.
1968-1969 National Teacher Corps, Livingston University, now (UWA) University of West Alabama.
1969-1970 New Orleans Public Schools, J.S. Clark High School, teacher, U.S. History.
1970-1971 Tulane University, (TAPES) Teaching Assistantship in Elementary Schools
1972-1976 New Orleans Public Schools; last school: GRASP, Alternative High School.
1976 Universidad de Mexico, Villahermosa, Mexico. English Language Teacher.
1977 Louisiana Training Institute (reform school – juvenile detention) Bridge City, Louisiana
1978-1980 DePaul Psychiatric Hospital, New Orleans, LA. Program Coordinator, Teacher
1980-1986 Worked in private industry- Safety and Environmental Protection Training Officer: Offshore Exploratory Drilling.
1986-1996 DePaul Northshore (Psychiatric) Hospital: Director/Principal Child & Adolescent
1997-1998 Upward Bound Academic Coordinator, University of New Orleans.
1998-2000 Louisiana Center for Law and Civic Education: Coordinator of Student Leadership, teacher training.
2002-2018 Mariposa Unified School District: Student Services Director, Director of Special Projects, Alternative School’s Director & Principal, (last) Teacher & Grant Writer MCUSD.
Publications and Presentations:
(2019) Thornburg, M., Augustine, K.A., & Terrar, T. “Rosie Lee Carpenter, teacher leader, civil rights leader, community leader. https://www.academia.edu. (HES) History of Education Society, Columbus, OH, November 1, 2019 (presentation).
(2018) Thornburg, M. & Terrar, T. “More than race: The “Full Employment’ Civil Rights work of Robert Brown, Alabama’s First Black Public-School Superintendent” In Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South. Spring/Summer 2018. 25 (1): 1-47
(2018) Lercari, N., Arksey, M., Caskey, C., Thornburg, M., DeLugan, R. “California Cold Country’s Digital Heritage: Innovations in Community Engaged Research and Training” In Collaborations: A Journal of Community-Based Research and Practice 2 (1).
(2015) Thornburg, M. “A Hidden Legacy of Education Leadership in the Black Belt of Alabama: Professor and Superintendent Robert Brown – Toward Justice and Voting Rights in the 1960s” Presented at: The American Education Research Conference, Chicago. 72.012 – Hidden Histories and Cultural Preservation from the Bottom Up. AERA Presidential Session, Invited Speaker Session. Note: Joyce E. King, GSU was AERA President, is assisting with facilitation in this “Greene County Civil Rights Museum Digital History”
(2014) Thornburg, M. “Searching for Social Justice: An examination of the Views of Alternative School Educators in the San Joaquin Valley of California” In International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Social (In) Justice, Chapter 38, pp. 729-749, (Eds.) Bogotch, I. and Shields, C.M.: Series: Springer International Handbooks of Education, Vol. 29. Note: Qualitative Methods, Theory and Social Justice constructs used in this study will be utilized in the “Greene County Civil Rights Museum Project” …
(2013) Thornburg, M. “Induction of Dr. Robert Brown, Black Belt Hall of Fame: Induction Ceremony and Dinner. Sponsored by: The Center for the Study of the Black Belt, The Division of Educational Outreach, The University of West Alabama, Bell Conference Center, March 8, 2013.
(2013) Thornburg, M.J. “Professor Robert Brown: Social Justice, Voting Rights, Inspiration and Legacy: A History of Educational Leadership – Missed, Hidden and Denied” History of Education Society, November 2, 2013, Nashville, TN., Session: New Histories of Desegregation
(2001) “School-wide Discipline in Urban High Schools: Perceptions of violence prevention strategies” University of New Orleans, A Dissertation.
(1986) “Education Vouchers: The issue of Family Choice in American Education” University of New Orleans, A Master’s Thesis.
(1969) “The Economic and Social Conditions for Negroes in West Central Alabama” Golden Gate University, A Senior Thesis.
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