Andes Mountains, Venezuela
Dr. Blake A. Ellis currently serves as an adjunct professor at Lone Star College-CyFair. Blake earned his Ph.D. in US history from Rice University and holds master’s degrees from Baylor University and Rice University. He is a two-time recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities awards, winner of Rice University’s Stockbridge Vaughan prize, recipient of the Robert McGehee Equality Award, and a 2016 John and Suanne Roueche Professor. He has presented his research at the Southern Historical Association, the Institute for the Study of Religion, the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development, Rice University’s Glasscock School of Continuing Studies, the League for Innovation in the Community College, and the Community College Humanities Association, among others. His work has been published in such venues as the Journal of Southern History, History News Network, and the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. He was the first editor of Civic Scholar, the country’s first journal of undergraduate research dedicated to community college students. He loves his family, travel, coffee, the New Yorker, and running.
ADJUNCT COURSES TAUGHT:
US History to 1877 (online)
US History since 1877 (online)