Professional
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Chairman, Department of History & Social Sciences
Leonard and Mary Anne Selber Professor of History
Precision Cartographics
Founder, Owner of Precision Cartographics, mapping , geographic, demographic, historical and archaeological consultation; expert witness
PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC AFFILIATIONS (current and past)
- Civil War Preservation Trust, National Advisory Board Member
- Phi Alpha Theta, National History Fraternity, member, former advisor of LSU in Shreveport Chapter
- U.S. Civil War Center, LSU in Baton Rouge, member, board of directors
- North Louisiana Civil War Round Table, member, former president, past coordinator of Eddie Vetter Memorial Symposium
- DeSoto Parish Historical Society, former president
- Southern Historical Association, member
- Society of Military History, member
- American Association of Geographers, member
- North Louisiana Historical Association, former board of directors, former editor of North Louisiana History
- McNeill Street Pumping Station Preservation Society, former board of directors
- Oakland Cemetery Preservation Society, vice-president
- Friends of the Mansfield Battlefield, president
- Spring Street Historical Museum Governing Board, president
- Multicultural Center of the South, past board member
- Red River Radio, President, Advisory Board 2008-2009, current board member
- Red River Heritage Association, board member
- Sesquicentennial of the Civil War in Louisiana Task Force, chairman
- Battle of New Orleans Bicentennial Commission, member
- Louisiana Historical Association, board member
EXPERT WITNESS/LITIGATION SUPPORT CASES (representative sample)
- Janet Reno v. Bossier Parish School Board 98-405 and 98-406 1998-1999 1995 U.S. U.S. Supreme Court and District Court for the District of Columbia.
- State of Louisiana v. Nick Taylor 1985-6 Criminal Suit 125348 First Judicial District.
- State of Louisiana v. Nathaniel Code Criminal Suit 138860 1990 First Judicial District
- Hamel’s Farm, L.L.C. v. Ike Muslow, M.D. and Berte A. Muslow No.