History, Social Sciences and Religion Faculty and Staff

Gary Bassett

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Maria Duarte

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Education

Bio

Research Interests

Dr. Duarte teaches courses in Latin American, U.S., New Mexico, and Borderlands History. Her research interest focuses on Mexican communities and the role of Mexican consuls in the United States during the late 19th century. She is the author of Frontera y diplomacia: las relaciones Mexico-Estados Unidos durante el porfiriato(2001) and of the book chapter entitled "To Protect and Police: Mexican Consuls in the American Borderlands at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" in Border Policing: A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America, Holly M. Karibo and George T. Diaz, eds. (2020).

Donald Elder

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Education

Bio

I was born in Farmington, Minnesota, and grew up in Marshalltown, Iowa, graduating from high school there in 1970. I went to Northwestern University, and received a teaching certificate from the University of Northern Iowa. I taught high school and coached in Vinton, Iowa for nine years. I then attended the University of California, San Diego, where I received my Ph.D. and served for three years as the assistant women?s basketball coach. I taught at the University of Redlands in Redlands, California from 1989 to 1995. I have taught at Eastern New Mexico University since 1995. I have written eight books, and have edited six others. I serve on local, state, national, and international commissions. I am currently the vice-chair of the New Mexico Museum of History Commission. I have been the radio broadcaster for football, basketball, volleyball, and baseball on both the high school and college level since 1996. I co-hosted the MIX 107.5 Morning Show from 1999 to 2001, and have co-hosted The Morning Throwdown on 105.9, KSEL-Country since 2001. Since 2012, I have hosted ?Sportslook? on KENW TV. I have been named the Sportscaster of the Year by the New Mexico Broadcasters Association 15 times, most recently in 2022. I was inducted into the New Mexico Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame in 2012, and that year I was also named Lone Star Conference Broadcaster of the Year. I received that honor again in 2022. I was inducted into the Eastern New Mexico University Hall of Honor in 2013, and in 2023 I became a member of the Eastern Plains Athletic Conference Hall of Fame. I married my wife Jan in May of 2024. I have two sons that both received multiple degrees from Eastern New Mexico University. Both my sons and their wives live in the Phoenix area. I have three grandsons, who I hope will all one day attend ENMU!.

Research Interests

I began my career as a historian of the American Space Program, and I still occasionally am asked to write reviews of books on that subject. Since the mid-1990s, however, I have concentrated most of my research efforts on the American Civil War.