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Barker was a UT tutor from 1899 to 1901, an instructor from 1901 to 1908, an adjunct [[professor]] from 1908 to 1911, associate professor from 1911 to 1913, and full professor and subsequently chairman of the history department from 1913 until his retirement in 1951. He was professor emeritus for the last five years of his life. When the title “distinguished professor” was established at UT in 1937, Barker was among the first three faculty members given such designation.<ref>William C. Pool, ''Eugene C. Barker: Historian,'' Texas State Historical Association, 1971.</ref>
Barker was a UT tutor from 1899 to 1901, an instructor from 1901 to 1908, an adjunct [[professor]] from 1908 to 1911, associate professor from 1911 to 1913, and full professor and subsequently chairman of the history department from 1913 until his retirement in 1951. He was professor emeritus for the last five years of his life. When the title “distinguished professor” was established at UT in 1937, Barker was among the first three faculty members given such designation.<ref>William C. Pool, ''Eugene C. Barker: Historian,'' Texas State Historical Association, 1971.</ref>
==In search of Stephen F. Austin==
==In search of Stephen F. Austin==
Barker was a member of the editorial board of
Barker was a member of the editorial board of
the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (since the Organization of American Historians) and served in 1923 as association president. He focused his studies on Texas history, then a wide-open field. Before he began writing his biography of Austin he assembled Austin’s papers from the period 1765 to 1836, which were published by the American Historical Association in four volumes between 1924 and 1928. His ''The Life of Stephen F. Austin'' was published in 1925 and is still considered a classic, the best single piece of scholarship yet done on a Texas topic.<ref name=utex/> Though Barker greatly admired Austin, there is little praise of his subject because of Barker’s strict principles of historical objectivity. He wrote of Austin:
the Mississippi Valley Historical Association (since the Organization of American Historians) and served in 1923 as association president. He focused his studies on Texas history, then a wide-open field. Before he began writing his biography of Austin he assembled Austin’s papers from the period 1765 to 1836, which were published by the American Historical Association in four volumes between 1924 and 1928. His ''The Life of Stephen F. Austin'' was published in 1925 and is still considered a classic, the best single piece of scholarship yet done on a Texas topic.<ref name=utex/> Though Barker greatly admired Austin, there is little praise of his subject because of Barker’s strict principles of historical objectivity. He wrote of Austin: