D. Clayton Brown specializes in Modern American History. Along with the general survey, he teaches two period courses in the twentieth century along with the New South Since 1877 and two graduate seminars. Clayton received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. A native Texan, he earned the Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts at the University of North Texas. His main interest for research and publication, though not exclusive, is the economic development of the rural South in the twentieth century. He is the author of Electricity for Rural America: The Fight for the REA; Army Engineers in the Sunbelt; and Dwight D. Eisenhower, an abbreviated biography for middle-school readers. He has 22 articles and essays in a variety of professional publications: Agricultural History, North Carolina Historical Review, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, American Archivist, Social Science Quarterly, Texas Medicine, and others. Clayton has presented 30 papers at a variety of conferences: Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association, Agricultural History Society, Texas State Historical Association, Mid-American Conference on History, Missouri Valley Historical Conference, East Texas Historical Association, Southwestern Social Science Association, and others. He has served as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, East Texas State University, Midwestern State University, and Texas Women's University. He appeared on the PBS Dallas Community College Series on American History. His short term research projects include the Commodity Credit Corporation and long term project is the history of the cotton industry since 1945. Teaching is a great part of Clayton's professional activity. In addition to undergraduates, he teaches masters and doctoral students. He has been recognized as a Mortar Board Professor, named a designated teacher in the Senior Appreciation Program, and nominated for Teacher of the Year by members of the student body. His consultant work includes service as a Reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, Sam Rayburn Home-Texas State Historical Commission, Health Communication Enterprises, Heritage Museum for the City of Plano, Texas, and the Parker County (Texas) Committee on Aging. Awards in his career are from the Texas State Historical Association for the Best Article of the Year published in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, and he has been recognized as a Young Humanist by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has a new book out entitled Globalization and America Since 1945 (Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 2003).