THERE IS DEATH IN THE POT - The University of Texas at Arlington

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Julie Holcomb received her Bachelor of
Arts cum laude in History and Creative Writing from Pacific University (Forest Grove,
Oregon) in 1999. She received her Master of Library and Information Science in
Archives and Records Management from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, and
her Doctor of Philosophy in Transatlantic History in August 2010. At UT-Arlington, she
received a Transatlantic Fellowship from the department of History. In 2007, she was
named a University Scholar. Dr. Holcomb is a member of Beta Phi Mu and Phi Kappa
Phi honor societies. Dr. Holcomb was named a finalist for a Woodrow Wilson Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship in Women’s Studies.
From 2001 through 2008, Dr. Holcomb served as Archivist and later Director of
the Pearce Civil War and Western Art Collections at Navarro College in Corsicana,
Texas. She also served as an adjunct faculty member in the college’s history department,
teaching the American history survey. During this period, she published Southern Sons,
Northern Soldiers: The Civil War Letters of the Remley Brothers, 22 nd Iowa (Northern
Illinois University Press, 2004). In 2008, Dr. Holcomb was named Lecturer in Museum
Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Her teaching areas include the history of
museums, collections management, preservation and conservation, ethics, and archives.
She serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors, Heart of Texas Regional History Fair.
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