Assistant Professor
Phone: 903.566.7371
Email: tseiter@uttyler.edu
Building: CAS Office 130
Department: History
Tim Seiter
Degrees
- Ph.D., Southern Methodist University
- M.A., Southern Methodist University
- B.A., University of Houston
- A.A., Alvin Community College
Biography
Tim Seiter studies colonial Texas and recently put the finishing touches on his first book, Wrangling Pelicans (University of Texas Press), which describes life as a presidial soldier in eighteenth-century Spanish Texas. Instead of focusing on equipment, salaries, and troop numbers, as is typical, Dr. Seiter鈥檚 book examines the full spectrum of these frontier soldiers鈥� everyday lives鈥攖asks that ranged from guarding horses to gambling away their equipment. This text will hit shelves Fall of 2025.
Dr. Seiter is now writing a general history of the Karankawa peoples of the Texas Gulf entitled 鈥淧ersistent Peoples.鈥� Past histories of Karankawas label these Natives as 鈥渢he meanest, greediest, laziest, most treacherous, lecherous, vicious, cowardly, insolent aborigines of the Southwest, the scourge of the frontier.鈥� A fresh history is needed. His book, besides reorienting the Karankawas鈥� image, places a spotlight on the Karankawa people today who are reclaiming their land and revitalizing their culture. Instead of being 鈥渆xtinct鈥� as previously claimed, the Karankawas persistently survive.