Betty Miller Unterberger
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Betty Miller Unterberger Regents professor |
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| Born |
December 27, 1922 Glasgow, Scotland |
| Died | May 15, 2012 (aged 89) College Station, Texas |
| Other names | Betty Miller |
| Residence | College Station, Texas |
| Institutions | Texas A&M University; California State University, Fullerton; Whittier College; East Carolina University |
| Education | Ph.D. History |
| Alma mater |
Duke University Radcliffe College Syracuse University |
| Thesis | America's Siberian Expedition, 1918-1920: A Study of National Policy |
| Known for | First female Professor at Texas A&M University; SHAFR President (1986) |
| Spouse | Robert Ruppe Unterberger |
| Children | Glen Alan Unterberger (deceased) Gail L. Unterberger Adams Gregg R. Unterberger |
Betty Miller Unterberger (December 27, 1922 – May 15, 2012) was a historian, who as professor of American international relations spent the bulk of her extensive academic career at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. In 1968, she became the first woman employed as a full professor on the faculty of the formerly all-male institution, where she remained until her retirement in 2004, at the age of 81.
Unterberger was born in Glasgow, Scotland, to Joseph "Scotty" Miller and the former Leah Milner, but was reared in the United States. In 1943, aided with a scholarship in speech, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. Her central interests were in history and political science,however. In 1946, she received the Master of Arts in history from the women's Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, now part of Harvard University.
Unterberger was particularly influenced at Radcliffe/ Harvard by the diplomatic historian Thomas A. Bailey, a visiting scholar from Stanford University. It was from Bailey that she learned about American troops sent to Siberia in Russia at the end of World War I during the Civil War between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Her Ph.D. dissertation at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, became the basis for her first book on the subject, the award-winning America's Siberian Expedition, 1918-1920: A Study of National Policy.
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