TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Land Sales, Undated Hockley County Free Press
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- Assistant Librarian - Cataloging / Technical Processing
Andrea Peacock is a Montana journalist covering Western politics and environmental news, and is the former editor of the Missoula Independent. She wrote Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation, and co-authored The Essential Grizzly with her husband Doug Peacock. Her work has appeared in Mother Jones, High Country News, Denver Westword, Austin Chronicle, and Counterpunch.org. In 2010 she received a fellowship from the Alicia Patterson Foundation for her work on oil and gas development in communities of the Rocky Mountain West. She is co-owner of Elk River Books in Livingston, Montana.
Andrea Peacock Papers, 1923-2013 (35 boxes) includes items for Doug and Andrea Peacock's work as collaborators on The Essential Grizzy and In the Presence of Grizzlies. It also includes material related to Grizzly Years and Walking it Off by Doug Peacock and Libby, Montana and Wasting Libby by Andrea Peacock. It includes business and personal correspondence, research material, manuscripts to published books and articles, reviews, miscellaneous publications, photographs, and AV material.
Annick Smith, a filmmaker and writer, has lived in Montana most of her adult life. Smith was executive producer for the prize-winning independent film, Heartland (1981) based on the frontier diaries of Wyoming pioneer, Elinore Randall Stewart. She was co-producer, with William Kittredge, for Robert Redford's film adaptation of Norman MacLean's novel, A River Runs Through It (1982). Smith's collection of essays, Homestead, was published by Milkweed Editions in 1995. Her book, Big Bluestem, Journey into the Tall Grass, which won the Oklahoma Book Award for nonfiction and the Denver Public Library's Bancroft prize for western history, was published by Council Oak Books (Tulsa) and The Nature Conservancy in 1996.
About the collections: Papers, 1940-2000 and undated (29 boxes) includes manuscripts of draft copies of published works, short stories and poems, final copies, revisions, research materials to Smith's works, film proposals, photocopied news clippings, business and literary correspondence, reviews, film projects, computer files and audio recordings. The collection also has files on Big Bluestem: Journey into the Tall Grass, In This We are Native and Homestead. There is also material on the Sundance Institute, where Smith was a founding member.
Papers, 1968-2007 and undated (17 boxes) contains a variety of materials pertaining to the literary and film works of Annick Smith. Included are manuscripts of draft copies of published works, final copies, revisions, research materials to Smith's works, photocopied news clippings, business and literary correspondence, reviews, film projects, computer files and audio recordings.
Barbara Ras is the author of four poetry collections: The Blues of Heaven (Pitt Poetry Series, 2021), The Last Skin (Penguin, 2010), which won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Book of 2010, One Hidden Stuff (Penguin, 2006), and Bite Every Sorrow, which won the Walt Whitman Award (selected by C. K. Williams) and also received the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. In 2004, Ras published an anthology of short fiction in translation, Costa Rica: A Traveler's Literary Companion. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, among others. She has been honored with residencies at The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Ucross Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, San Ysidro Ranch Writers' Residency, and the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio. Her work has appeared in more than 100 magazines and anthologies. Ras has taught at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson, as well as at workshops nationally and internationally. Barbara Ras worked for forty years in book publishing and is the founding director emerita of Trinity University Press in San Antonio. She now lives in Denver.
About the collection: Papers 1967-2020 (28 boxes) includes correspondence, literary publications, drafts and notebooks, materials from readings, workshops, and other events, photographs, and media. While the collection primarily documents Ras's career as a poet, it also includes some of her editorial and teaching work.
Barry Lopez (1945-2020) was an essayist, author, and short story writer. His books include Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award, and Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist, as well as several collections of short stories and two collections of essays. He received fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the John Burroughs Society, the Orion Society, and other institutions. In his nonfiction, Mr. Lopez wrote about the relationship between physical landscape and human culture. In his fiction, he frequently addressed issues of intimacy, ethics, and identity. His work has been widely anthologized and translated into thirteen languages. He traveled widely and collaborated with a number of artists on a variety of projects in theater, music, and the fine arts. He had a long relationship with Texas Tech University and served as a Distinguished Visiting University Scholar. He lived on the McKenzie River in rural western Oregon, his home area devastated by the Holiday Farm Fire in 2020.
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- Lead Archival Associate - Exhibits
Clyde Jones was born on March 3, 1935 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. He died in Lubbock on April 6, 2015. After graduating from Burwell High School, he studied at Hastings College, Nebraska. He received his BS in 1957. He graduated from the University of New Mexico, where he received both the MS (1960) and PhD (1964). In 1979, Dr. Jones became chief of the mammal section of the Bird and Mammal Laboratories of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service housed in the U.S. National Museum of Natural History. He returned to Texas Tech in 1982, serving as professor of biological sciences and curator of mammals at the Natural Science Research Laboratory of Texas Tech. He was a Paul Whitfield Horn Professor.
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- Archival Associate - Audio / Visual
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- Section Manager - Special Projects and Audio / Visual
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- Archival Associate - Cataloging / Technical Processing
Gary Paul Nabhan is an internationally-celebrated nature writer, seed saver, conservation biologist and sustainable agriculture activist who has been called "the father of the local food movement" by Mother Earth News. Gary is also an orchard-keeper, wild forager and Ecumenical Franciscan brother in his hometown of Patagonia, Arizona near the Mexican border.
He is author or editor of twenty-four books, some of which have been translated into Spanish, Italian, French, Croatian, Korean, Chinese and Japanese. For his writing and collaborative conservation work, he has been honored with a MacArthur "genius" award, a Southwest Book Award, the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing, the Vavilov Medal, and lifetime achievement awards from the Quivira Coalition and Society for Ethnobiology.
He works most of the year as a research scientist at the Southwest Center of the University of Arizona, and the rest as co-founder-facilitator of several food and farming alliances, including Renewing America's Food Traditions and Flavors Without Borders.
About the Collection: Papers, 1866-2010 (18 boxes) contains personal journals, academic work, correspondence, maps, and drafts of books and essays, as well as audio and video cassettes, computer disks, and photographs. It include material on the Center for Sustainable Environments and Renewing America's Food Traditions. The collection was received in boxes organized by file drawers from Gary Paul Nabhan's home and this list is part of the collection. Books included in this donation were cataloged for the Natural History Collection. Additional material (8 pages, primarily correspondence) that Nabhan mailed to the Sowell Collection Librarian in July 2015 were added to box 1.
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- Lubbock City Council Political Poster, Undated
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- Archival Associate - Southwest Collection
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- Assistant Librarian - Rare Books
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- Unit Manager - Conservation, Reception
Howard Norman is an American author and translator whose work includes novels, short stories, memoirs, children's books, radio plays, screenplays, collections of translations. He was born in Ohio in l949 and growing up divided his time between Michigan and Canada. He spent many years working in the Canadian north, translating Inuit life histories, medical histories, folklore. Much of his fiction is set in Eastern Maritime Canada , where he also researched documentary films. He attended Western Michigan University and took an MA degree at The Folklore Institute at Indiana University. He was in residence in The Society of Fellows at The University of Michigan from l974-l977. His work has been widely translated. He has received The Lannan Award in fiction, a fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, a grant from the Merrill Foundation, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harold Morton Landon Prize in Translation from The Academy of American Poets, was twice short-listed for the National Book Award in fiction, and received numerous awards and citations for his children's books, especially those illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon. In 2007, he traveled the okunohosomiche ("Narrow Road to the North") originally traveled by haiku master Matsuo Basho; Mr. Norman's diary of this journey appeared in National Geographic. For thirty-one years he taught in the MFA program at The University of Maryland, and served on the faculty of the Summer Writers institute, Skidmore College. Norman is married to poet Jane Shore; their daughter Emma Maile Shore Norman is a photographer.
We are proud to announce the recent and ongoing acquisition of Howard Norman's papers. The first boxes arrived in August 2019 and we look forward to an additional shipment before the end of the year. We hope to begin processing this new collection in 2020.
Norman, Howard. How Glooskap Outwits the Ice Giants; and Other Tales of the Maritime Indians. Boston: Little, Brown, 1989.
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- Editor of the Paris Review
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- Archival Associate - Southwest Collection
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- Librarian - SWC, University Archive, Oral History, Exhibits
Lisa Couturier is an essayist, poet and animal advocate. She was born in New Jersey but grew up in Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C. She graduated from University of Maryland in 1985 with a degree in Journalism and a certificate in Women's Studies. She later earned a Master's degree from the Gallatin School at New York University. Her book The Hopes of Snakes explores the wild in urban spaces and the connections between the human and the nonhuman. Couturier's work has appeared in Orion, Isotope, the American Nature Writing series, E Magazine, The Center for Humans and Nature's City Creatures, and National Geographic's Heart of a Nation, among other publications. Her essay "Dark Horse" won the 2012 Pushcart Prize and was nominated for the Grantham Prize for Environmental Writing. She was named a notable essayist in Best American Essays in 2004, 2006 and 2011. Her collection of poems, Animals/Bodies, won the 2015 Chapbook Award from the New England Poetry Club. Couturier lives with her husband, children and six horses on an agricultural reserve northwest of Washington, D.C., not far from Sugarloaf Mountain.
Lisa Couturier has been a frequent presenter at the Sowell Collection Conference.
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- Archival Associate - Sowell Collection
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- Director - Sowell Collection
Michael Koepf was born in San Mateo, California, in March 1940. His father Ernest Koepf was a commercial fisherman, and his mother Ursula Koepf was a bookkeeper in a fish cannery. Koepf's childhood home was Moss Beach, near the town of Half Moon Bay, California.
At eighteen, Koepf joined the US Army. He served as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division, and later as a volunteer for the Army's Special Forces. While with the First Special Forces Group, he served in Southeast Asia during the nascent period of the Vietnam War. After his discharge from the Army, Koepf attended San Mateo Junior College and San Francisco State University, earning a BA in Communications and English (1966) and an MA in Creative Writing (1967).
After graduation, Koepf held various jobs: teacher in a private girl's school in Hillsborough, California; principal of a one-room schoolhouse in Big Sur, California; and commercial fisherman of salmon, crab, and tuna. Over his twenty years as a fisherman, Koepf owned and captained three different vessels (the Thor, NOBE, and LCF). Koepf's two younger brothers, John and Ernie, also became commercial fishermen. Koepf worked in Hollywood for 10 years as a screenwriter crafting scripts for Lauren Weissman, Robert Towne, and Steven Spielberg.
Koepf is currently married to Laura Adams. He has a daughter, Michele Koepf; a son, Ehren Koepf, and two granddaughters, Liza Koepf and Caroline Koepf. Koepf has lived in Mendocino, California between the forest and the sea since 1972 in a house that he and his third wife Mary built themselves.
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- Programmer / Analyst III - Information Technology
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- Archivist - Southwest Collection
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- Archival Associate - Reference
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- Unit Manager - Southwest Collection
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- Exhibitions Gallery Upstairs Features Amy Freeman Lee
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- Doctor in Medicine, University of Louisville, 1874
Rick Bass is a writer and environmental activist. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1958, but spent much of his youth in Houston. He graduated from Utah State with a degree in geology and then worked as a petroleum geologist in Mississippi. In 1987 Bass moved to Montana and began writing full-time. He is the author of numerous short stories, novels, memoirs and essays. Much of his work focuses on the reasoned benefits of preserving wilderness areas, such as the Roadless Yaak Valley of Montana.
About the collections: Papers, 1958-2001 is our original Rick Bass papers acquisition and includes almost all of his early work, from The Deer Pasture to Colter. It also includes drafts of short stories and essays, as well as correspondence and Yaak Valley Forest Council material.
Robert Michael Pyle is a professional writer and lepidopterist living in Grays River, Washington. He was born on July 19, 1947 in Denver, Colorado. He attended The University of Washington (B.S. and M.S.) and Yale University (Ph.D., School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 1976). He has published 17 books, including Wintergreen: Rambles In a Ravaged Land which won the 1987 John Burroughs Medal and Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year. Other awards include The Washington State Book Award (2008) and The National Outdoor Book Award (2007) for Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place. He has published hundreds of papers, short stories, poems and essays in many magazines and journals. Pyle wrote the popular column "The Tangled Bank" that appeared in Orion Magazine and Orion Afield and was published in book form as The Tangled Bank: Writings from Orion. Pyle is active in many organizations including the Xerces Society. He has also served as butterfly conservation consultant for Papua New Guinea and as Northwest Land Steward for The Nature Conservancy.
About the Collection: Papers,1874-2014 (131 boxes) includes correspondence, photos and slides, drafts and galley copies of Pyle's major books, as well as maps, AV material and computer disks. Correspondence, which is comprised of 35 boxes, reflects personal cards and letters, business correspondence with publishers and lepidopterist societies. Correspondents include David James Duncan, Rick Bass, Barry Lopez, William Kittredge, Annick Smith, Doug Peacock, David Quammen, John Lane, and Pattiann Rogers. Many other important American writers, politicians, and scientists are also included. Other materials document Pyle's participation with organizations such as The Xerces Society, The Nature Conservancy, The Orion Society and the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
Roland "Ro" Wauer is an internationally acclaimed expert on the birds and butterflies of North America. A thirty-two year veteran of the National Park Service, as chief park naturalist for Big Bend National Park and chief of the Division of Natural Resources, National Park Service, he is the author of some two dozen books and two hundred articles. Ro writes on topics that reflect his distinguished career, with titles that include Birder's Mexico, Butterflies of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and Naturalist's Big Bend.
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- IT Senior Support Technician - Information Technology
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- Archival Associate - University Archives
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- Lead Archival Associate - Oral History
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- Associate Dean - SWC / SCL
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- Senior Archival Associate - Southwest Collection
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- Del Distretto Di Mcensk, Teatro Alla Scala, 1992
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- Doctor in Medicine, University of Nashville, 1854
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- Manager - Southwest Music Archive
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- Assistant Archivist - Southwest Collection
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- Unit Manager - Cataloging / Technical Processing