L.E. Thomas Email & Phone Number

History 3000 Honors Program: Special Topics - American Civil War (Resident)History 2111: Survey of United States History to 1877 (Resident, Hybrid, Online)History 2111 Honors Program: Survey of United States History to 1877 (Resident)History 2112: Survey of United States History from 1877 (Resident, Hybrid, Online)History 1121: Survey of Western Civilization 1 (Resident)Student Media Coordinator – Georgia Gwinnett College Georgia Gwinnett College Student Affairs Committee Advisor to the Georgia Gwinnett College Student Newspaper The Globe Georgia Gwinnett College History and Geography Department Public Relations Committee Member Student Affairs Committee Chair/Member for the Georgia Gwinnett College History and Geography ProgramAdvisor to the Georgia Gwinnett College Tabletop Club for students Georgia Gwinnett College Annual Awards Committee Member Assessment Committee member for the Georgia Gwinnett College history program Member for the Button Gwinnett Day Speakers’ CommitteeNominated by Georgia Gwinnett College for “Excellence as a Senior Faculty Member”Nominated by Georgia Gwinnett College for “Outstanding Teaching Award”Nominated by Georgia Gwinnett College for “Outstanding Teaching Award” Nominated by Georgia Gwinnett College students for “Part-time Instructor of the Year”

History 501: Historical Methods (Online)History (HIUS) 713: American Entrepreneurship Since 1900 (Online)Dissertation Director for untitled dissertation

History 2111: Survey of United States History to 1877 (Resident, Hybrid, Online)History 2112: Survey of United States History from 1877 (Resident)

Trained and served as a Communications Officer with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)Trained and served as a Communications Officer with the Georgia Emergency Management Agency (GEMA)Three time award-winner of the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award for the Forsyth County Budget Book by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA) Awarded a National Award of Excellence by the National Association of County Information Officers for design work on the Forsyth County Annual Report Five time award-winner of the National Awards of Excellence by the National Association of County Information Officers for design work on the Forsyth County Fire Department Annual Report Charter member of the Forsyth County Drug CoalitionCharter member of the Forsyth County Employee Wellness CommitteeCharter member of the Forsyth County Employee Wellness Newsletter CommitteeCharged with writing press releases on a variety of topics of interest to local citizensServed as a point-of-contact for the press as neededDesigned content for the county’s monthly newsletter The CurrentDesigned eye-catching bulletins for the county’s television station TV ForsythCreated award-winning publications during all stages of production from concept and design through to publicationUpdated Web site content and calendarRegularly designed promotional fliers and brochures for county departmentsConducted live coverage of county government meetings on TV Forsyth and assembled a final product for rebroadcast

Successfully launched two new publicationsManaged staff of five full time employees and planned content for five weekly publications, a news website, and two annual publicationsRegularly produced news stories, photographs and videos on all possible beats from local government to crime to sportsHonored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars post in Cumming, Georgia for honoring veterans and helping increase patriotism (2010)

Advised Georgia Southern Student Media while earning M.A. in HistoryConducted Seminars on Journalism TechniquesProviding Daily Critiques of the student publicationsNobody’s writing this stuff down: Student Media as a source of school history: Offered to attendees at the national associated collegiate press convention in New York City, NY

Served as a Sports Editor and General Reporter covering all beats including but not limited to crime, hard news, government, education, and more.Second place sports writing award presented by the Georgia Press Association First place for best layout of sports section presented by the Georgia Press AssociationFirst place for non-deadline reporting presented by the Associated Press at an awards ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia

Regularly produced news and editorial copy reporting on numerous beats including government, crime, education, human interest stories and more.Second place for sports writing presented by the Georgia Press AssociationOtis A. Brumby Trophy for first place as serious columnist presented by the Georgia Press Association at annual conference at Jekyll Island, GeorgiaThird place for hard news writing presented by the Georgia Press Association

M.A., B.A., History, Communications Arts, With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Vice President of the Georgia Southern University Creative Writing Club Third place for hard news writing.

Ph.D., History, With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Omega Nu Lambda National Honor SocietyDissertation: The Impact of Defeat on James Longstreet in East Tennessee.