Tim Draves

Tim Draves was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, during the first term of Pres. Eisenhower. He moved to Texas during the last months of the Gerald Ford Administration and lived in Galveston and Austin before arriving in San Antonio during the first term of Ronald Reagan. As President Clinton ended his second term, he began work on his Masters Degree at UTSA where he learned the fascinating stories about the Bexar community and he has not stopped exploring the history.

• University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Tex., MA, May, 2005
  • Area of Concentration: U.S. History
• Beloit College, Beloit, Wis., 1976, BA English Composition / Economics

• University of the Incarnate Word, 2008--present Lecturer
• 2005-present: Editor, University of the Incarnate Word: The Journal of the Life and Culture of San Antonio
• 2012-present: Presenter, Road Scholar Program “Signature City: San Antonio”

“Mary Menger” Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association, June 30, 2020

“Common Thread,” chapter in 300 Years of San Antonio & Bexar County, Claudia Guerra, ed., Trinity University Press, 2018.

“Spanish Governor’s Palace (the Comandancia),” Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association, April 6, 2016

“Fresh Ideas, William Menger’s Fascination with Innovation, 1847-1871,” The Journal of South Texas, November 2008 Three San Antonio Women in Texas History, NEISD fourth grade curriculum guide, March 2008

Southwestern Historical Quarterly, January, 2008: review of River Walk: The Epic Story of San Antonio’s River, by Lewis Fisher (San Antonio: Maverick Publishing, 2006)

“Mary Menger” The Journal of the Life and Culture of San Antonio, The University of the Incarnate Word, uiw.edu/sanantonio, June 10, 2006 Readings in San Antonio History (NEISD Department of Social Studies), editor, Vol. 1- 2, 2007-08

Southwestern Historical Quarterly, July, 2004: review of HemisFair '68 and The Transformation of San Antonio, by Sterlin Holmesly (San Antonio: Maverick Publishing, 2003)

Texas State Historical Association

• Denise J. Doyle Award for Teaching and Service, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of the Incarnate Word, April 28, 2016.
• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Texas Lessons Contest, 2011
• TSHA, Mary Jon and J. P. Bryan Excellence in Education, 2009
• TSHA, Fred White, Jr. Research Fellowship in Texas History, 2008
• HEB Awards in Teaching Excellence, State Semi-Finalist, May 21, 2006
• Humanities Texas, State Affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, grant for University of the Incarnate Word and The Journal of the Life and Culture of San Antonio, February 1, 2006

• Bexar County Historical Commission; Chair, 2017—2018, Member 2006—2018
• Handbook of Texas Advisory Committee, TSHA, 2017-present
• Bexar County Liaison to UTSA GIS mapping project—2016 to 2018
• Bexar County Tricentennial Symposium, 2015-2018
• San Antonio Historical Association, Communications Director, 2014 to 2018
• Bryan Leadership in Education Award Committee, TSHA, 2010
• Education Committee, TSHA, Aug 2010 to present
• Brackenridge Park Conservancy, Board of Directors 2009-2015
• Texana Room, Friends of the Library, President, Nov. 1, 2008 to Oct. 30, 2010

Draves began his association with UIW as a volunteer in 2005. With Patricia Gower, Ph.D., the Chair of the History Department, he founded the online "Journal of the Life and Culture of San Antonio." The Journal publishes research by scholars--from undergrad to Ph.D.-- as a repository for writing about the community. It has been used as a source in more than ten academic papers and books.

Texas history, focusing on San Antonio in the nineteenth century

• U.S. History to the Civil War
• U.S. History Since the Civil War
• Texas History
• History of San Antonio