Education
Georgetown University.
Georgetown University.
Conrad obtained a master"s degree from Georgetown University in 1959 and, prior to becoming a historian, he worked as an editor for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (Federal Bureau of Investigation). He taught at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then the University of Southwestern Louisiana), where he served as director of the Center for Louisiana Studies from 1973 until his death. During that time, Conrad developed the center into a self-supporting university press that issued several academic titles each year on Louisiana-related subjects, particularly Louisiana history, but also Louisiana architecture, botany, and poetry, among other topics.
