Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Mary C Brennan

  • Dean, Liberal Arts
  • Professor at History, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, election Task Force. August 28, 2020 - Present.
  • Dean. August 2017 - Present.
  • Energy Conservation Committee. 2011 - Present.

2026

  • Member, First Ladies Association for Research and Education Nominating Committee. October 2024 - May 2026.

2024

  • Chair, Insights and Highlights: Election Predictions Panel. October 30, 2024.

2023

  • Attendee / Participant, First Ladies Association for Research and Education. August 2023 - December 2023.
  • Faculty Advisor, Catholic Student Organization. August 2010 - May 2023.

2022

  • Co-Chair, Recommendation Task Force. October 2021 - January 2022.

2021

  • Chair, AVP--University Librarian Search Committee. February 2021 - August 2021.
  • Chair, Scholar Task Force. January 2021 - July 2021.
  • Co-Chair, Advising Work Group. October 2018 - January 2021.

2020

  • Guest speaker, Chair Training. October 9, 2020.

2018

  • Reviewer / Referee, Tarelton State University. March 2018.
  • Panel Chair/ Commentator, Texas State Historical Association Conference. March 9, 2018.

2017

  • Chair. August 2011 - August 2017.

2016

  • Chair, Council of Chairs. 2015 - 2016.
  • Consultant, Richard M. Nixon Presidential Museum Re-Opening. 2015 - 2016.
  • Registration and Academic Calendar Coordinating Committee. 2011 - 2016.
  • Member, Selection Committee, University Distinguished Professor Committee. January 1, 2016 - April 1, 2016.

2015

  • Moderator, Academic Panel, Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Higher Education Act. 2015.
  • 2014 - 2015.
  • Council of Chairs. 2014 - 2015.
  • Member, Centennial Celebration of Catholic Student Organization. 2014 - 2015.
  • Chair, Student Day, Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Signing of the Higher Education Act. January 1, 2015 - November 1, 2015.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Texas A&M, Corpus Christi, Department of History, Academic Program Review. April 1, 2015.
  • Member, Selection Committee, University Distinguished Professor Committee. January 1, 2015 - April 1, 2015.
  • Panel Chair, Rural Women's Studies Association, Triennial Conference. February 1, 2015.
  • Organizer, De-Segregating Higher Education in Texas Symposium. January 1, 2015 - February 1, 2015.

2014

  • Member, Olympia Hills Gymnastics Booster Association, Meet Committee. 2014.

2011

  • Graduate Council. 2003 - 2011.
  • 2002 - 2011.

2010

  • Chair, Search Committee, 20th Century American Position. 2009 - 2010.

2009

  • "Two Fairytales and a Reality Check: The Relationship of Richard and Pat Nixon," Lion's Club of San Marcos. February 2009.

2008

  • Common Experience, LBJ Reader, committee. 2007 - 2008.
  • "Baking Pies and Saving America: Republican Women in Postwar America," Republican Women of Williamson County Meeting. August 2008.

2007

  • 2006 - 2007.
  • Faculty Senate. 2006 - 2007.
  • 2000 - 2007.

2006

  • Chair, Registrar Search Committee. 2005 - 2006.

2005

  • 2004 - 2005.
  • Faculty Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Issues. 2004 - 2005.
  • Search Committee, Enrollment Management. 2004 - 2005.

2004

  • Program Review Committee. 2003 - 2004.
  • 1996 - 2004.

2003

  • Chair, Search Committee, Early American Position. 2002 - 2003.

2002

  • Undergraduate Advisor. 1993 - 2002.
  • Chair, Undergraduate Committee. 1993 - 2002.

2001

  • Committee on Presidential Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activity Award. 1999 - 2001.
  • Chair, Travel Committee. 1999 - 2001.

2000

  • General Education Council. 1996 - 2000.

1999

  • Faculty in Residence, Residential College. 1997 - 1999.

1998

  • "American Voices" A Primary Source Reader, Longman Publications. 1998.

1994

  • University Council, Tenure-Track Representative. 1993 - 1994.

1993

  • "Quiet Shadows: Women in the Pacific War," committee work, closing comments, Alkek Library. March 1993.