1956 – Texas State Barber’s License; graduation from Texas Barber College in Houston
1956 – Staff member; Evergreen Episcopal Conference Grounds, Evergreen, Colorado
1957 – Seismograph crew surveyor assistant; Taylor Exploration Company; S. Louisiana
1958 – Crew member and site sketch artist; Smithsonian Archeology Dig; Crow Creek Sioux Reservation, South Dakota
1960-1961 – Lab assistant; Balcones Research Center’s Vertebrate Paleontology Lab, Austin
1961 – I met and began dating my future wife, Vivian Zgodzinski, as a fellow student at McGill University in Montreal. She was born in 1942 in the Warsaw Ghetto and came out of World War II as an orphan, raised by aunts in Paris and later Montreal. She is a French and Latin teacher. We have two married children – Aviva Kathleen, married to Danny Anzak, of San Antonio (with three sons: Benjamin, Elijah, and Jeremy) and Wowek Sean Kearney, married to Dr. Lisa Gillian, of San Antonio (with two sons, Ian and Collin)
1962 – B.S. cum laude in geology from the University of Texas at Austin
1962 – Geological surveyor on a University of Texas at Austin student archeological expedition near Cadareyta, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
1962 – Arabic-English interpreter-coordinator of a native Egyptian crew on a United Nations archeology expedition north of Kom Ombo, Egypt
1963 – English teacher; American Institute, Barcelona, Spain, and student at the Universidad de Barcelona
1963-1969 – POW interrogator; interpreter-translator in French; and strategic intelligence analyst in the U. S. Army Reserves with assignments at Ft. Polk, Louisiana, Ft. Hood, Texas, the Austin National Guard Armory, Ft. Meade, Maryland, the Oakland National Guard Armory, Camp Roberts, California, the Pentagon, McGraw Kasserne in Munich, Germany, and Grafenwoehr Base in northeastern Bavaria
1965 – Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to the University of California at Berkeley
1966 – M.A. in medieval history from the University of California at Berkeley
1967 – doctoral study at the Ludwig-Max Universitaet in Munich, Germany on a Berkeley grant
1968-1969 – Wissentschaftlicher Assistant in medieval history at the Goethe Universitaet in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
1969-1970 – dissertation research on a Berkeley grant at the Bayerische Hauptstaatsarchiv in Munich, Germany
1970 – Ph.D. in medieval history from the University of California at Berkeley
1970-2006 – Professor of History at the (now) University of Texas at Brownsville (under changing names)
1982 – Minnie Stevens Piper Award for outstanding teaching
1992 – The University of Texas Chancellor’s Outstanding Teacher Award
1992-1993 – Fulbright Scholar/Lecturer in Mexico
2006 - Was awarded a "Professor Emeritus of History" at University of Texas at Brownsville
Published Books
Authored:
1. The Indian Ocean in World History (London and New York: Routledge, 2004);
2. Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands (Texas A & M Univ. Press, 2001);
3. Border Cuates: A History of the U.S.?Mexican Twin Cities (Austin: Eakin Press, 1995);
4. Boom and Bust: The Historical Cycles of Matamoros and Brownsville (Eakin, 1991);
5. Stories Brownsville Told Its Children: A Child=s History of Brownsville / Historias Que Brownsville Contó a sus Hijos: Una Historia de Brownsville para Niños (Eakin, 2001);
6. The Role of Swine Symbolism in Medieval Culture: Blanc Sanglier (Edwin Mellen Press, 1991);
7. The Historical Roots of Medieval Literature: Battle and Ballad (Mellen, 1992);
8. Louise A. Mayo et alia and Milo Kearney, American Dreams and Reality: A Retelling of the American Story, Vol. I, third edition (Wheaton, Illinois: Abigail Press, 2001);
9. A Brief History of Education in Brownsville and Matamoros (UT?Pan American?Brownsville, 1989). Edited - A series of books of articles of local history put out by UT-B: 10. Studies in Brownsville History (1986);
11. More Studies in Brownsville History (1989);
12. Still More Studies in Brownsville History (1991);
13. Studies in Brownsville and Matamoros History (1995);
14. Studies in Matamoros and Cameron County History (1997);
15. Studies in Rio Grande Valley History (Spring 2005);
16. Further Studies in Rio Grande Valley History (scheduled for Summer 2006); and
17. Still Further Studies in Rio Grande Valley History (scheduled for Summer 2007).
Also 18. The Medieval Roots of the Mexican American Borderlands (Texas Southmost College, Spring 1982).
Articles:
Including in Viator; Forschungen zur Reichs-,Papst- und Landesgeschichte; Chaucer Review; Italica; Motif; Comparative Civilizations Review; Schatzkammer der deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte; Lamar Journal of the Humanities; Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas; The Borderlands Journal; Borders Review; South Texas Journal of Research and the Humanities; National Social Sciences Perspectives Journal; South Texas Studies; and an editing contribution to the Texas Almanac of The Encyclopedia of Texas, 1996?1997.
Plays:
Productions of my musical play Red Beard of the Rio Grande by the Bravo Opera Company of the University of Texas at Brownsville Music Dept (17 & 18 April 2004), by the Resaca Players at the Kennedy Ranch Museum’s Border Culture Festival in Sarita (7 May 2005), and by the Acacia Players at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center in San Antonio (25 June 2005); & of 5 other plays.
Poems published in - The Angels, South and West, and Borders Review.
Illustrations published in - Stories Brownsville Told Its Children: A Child=s History of Brownsville; George Green, El Lenguaje Poético de Rubén Darío, Novosantanderino, News Strips: A Newsletter of the College of Liberal Arts, UT-B; The Role of Swine Symbolism in Medieval Literature: Blanc Sanglier; Still More Studies in Brownsville History; More Studies in Brownsville History; Further Studies in Rio Grande Valley History; The Medieval Roots Of The Mexican American Borderlands; The Bargain Book, The Mesquite Review, and The Houston Post.