Thomas Richard Cox

Background

Cox, Thomas Richard was born on January 16, 1933 in Portland, Oregon, United States. Son of James Louis and Helen Melissa (Case) Cox.

Education

Student, Whitman College, 1952. Bachelor of Science, Oregon State College, 1955. Postgraduate, University Hawaii, 1964.

Master of Science, University Oregon, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy, University Oregon, 1969.

Career

Teacher public high schools, Sisters, Oregon, 1956-1959, Tulelake, California, 1959-1963. Teaching assistant University Oregon, 1964-1967. Assistant professor history San Diego State University, 1967-1970, associate professor, 1970-1974, professor, since 1975.

Director Center Asian Studies, since 1985. Teacher Interchange fellow East-West Center, 1963-1964. Fulbright professor, Japan, 1975-1976, Forest History Society fellow, 1979-1980, Huntington Library fellow, 1981, University Tokyo research fellow, 1984.

Achievements

• Thomas Richard Cox has been listed as a noteworthy historian, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and Their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present

    (Examinations of interaction between american culture, eco...)

  • Mills and Markets: A History of the Pacific Coast Lumber Industry to 1900 (Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography)

Membership

Member Sisters City Council, 1958-1959. Member Organization American Historians, Forest. History Society (director 1974-1982), Forest.

History Association (president 1978-1980), Agricultural History Society, Western History Association, Association Asian Studies.

Connections

Married Mary Margaret MacGillivray, November 24, 1954. Children: Dianne Lynne, James Kimberly, Cynthia Ann, Michael William.

Father:

James Louis Cox

Mother:

Helen Melissa (Case) Cox

Spouse:

Mary Margaret MacGillivray

child:

Michael William Cox

child:

Cynthia Ann Cox

child:

Dianne Lynne Cox

child:

James Kimberly Cox