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'''Betty Miller Unterberger''' (December 27, 1922 – May 15, 2012)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theeagle/obituary.aspx?n=betty-unteberger-miller&pid=157661411|title=Betty (Miller) Unterberger obituary|publisher=''Bryan-College Station Eagle''|accessdate=May 17, 2012}}</ref> was a diplomatic historian, who as [[professor]] of American international relations spent the bulk of her extensive academic career at [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]], [[Texas]]. In 1968, she became the first woman employed as a full [[professor]] on the faculty of the formerly all-male institution, where she remained until her retirement in 2004, at the age of 81.<ref name=oah>{{cite web|url=http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2005aug/formwalt.html|author=Lee W. Formwalt|title=From Scotland to India: A Conversation with American Historian Betty Unterberger|date=August 2005|publisher=Organization of American Historians|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref>
'''Betty Miller Unterberger''' (December 27, 1922 – May 15, 2012)<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theeagle/obituary.aspx?n=betty-unteberger-miller&pid=157661411|title=Betty (Miller) Unterberger obituary|publisher=''Bryan-College Station Eagle''|accessdate=May 17, 2012}}</ref> was a diplomatic historian, who as [[professor]] of American international relations spent the bulk of her extensive academic career at [[Texas A&M University]] in [[College Station, Texas|College Station]], [[Texas]]. In 1968, she became the first woman employed as a full [[professor]] on the faculty of the formerly all-male institution, where she remained until her retirement in 2004, at the age of 81.<ref name=oah>{{cite web|url=http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2005aug/formwalt.html|author=Lee W. Formwalt|title=From Scotland to India: A Conversation with American Historian Betty Unterberger|date=August 2005|publisher=Organization of American Historians|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
Unterberger was born in [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]], to Joseph "Scotty" Miller and the former Leah Milner,<ref name=bmuo>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theeagle/obituary.aspx?n=dr-betty-miller-unterberger&pid=157673293|title=Dr/ Betty Miller Unterberger|publisher=''The Bryan-College Station Eagle''|accessdate=May 18, 2012}}</ref> but was reared in the United States. In 1943, aided with a scholarship in speech, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University in [[Syracuse]], [[New York]]. Her central interests were in history and [[political science]]. In 1946, she received the [[Master of Arts]] in history<ref name=bmuo/> from the women's Radcliffe College in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]], now part of [[Harvard University]].<ref name=oah/>
Unterberger was born in [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]], to Joseph "Scotty" Miller and the former Leah Milner,<ref name=bmuo>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theeagle/obituary.aspx?n=dr-betty-miller-unterberger&pid=157673293|title=Dr/ Betty Miller Unterberger|publisher=''The Bryan-College Station Eagle''|accessdate=May 18, 2012}}</ref> but was reared in the United States. In 1943, aided with a scholarship in speech, she obtained her Bachelor of Arts from Syracuse University in [[Syracuse]], [[New York]]. Her central interests were in history and [[political science]]. In 1946, she received the [[Master of Arts]] in history<ref name=bmuo/> from the women's Radcliffe College in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]], now part of [[Harvard University]].<ref name=oah/>
*______ (1989) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=itRmAAAAMAAJ The United States, Revolutionary Russia and the Rise of Czechoslovakia].'' Supplementary volumes to The papers of Woodrow Wilson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 463 p. ISBN 0-8078-1853-4.
*______ (1989) ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=itRmAAAAMAAJ The United States, Revolutionary Russia and the Rise of Czechoslovakia].'' Supplementary volumes to The papers of Woodrow Wilson. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 463 p. ISBN 0-8078-1853-4.
==Personal life==
Robert Unterberger also held a Ph.D. from Duke University. Howard Mumford Jones, Unterberger's Harvard graduate school advisor, had urged her to marry Robert. At first reluctant, she consented after being stricken by [[influenza]]. Robert Unterberger served in both [[World War II]] and the [[Korean War]]. He was severely injured when his jeep blew up in the [[Philippines]] two days after the official end of World War II.<ref name=oah/> The Unterbergers were the parents of Glen Alan Unterberger (1951–1978), the Reverend Dr. Gail L. Unterberger (born 1952), the wife of Randall Adams, and Gregg R. Unterberger (born 1958).<ref name=bmuo/> Howard Jones had much impact on Unterberger, having introduced her to the technical advantages of having a dictaphone in her historical writing.<ref name=oah/>
Both Robert and Betty Unterberger were [[cancer]] survivors. He overcame [[prostate cancer]].<ref name=robertr/> She endured four surgeries between 1950 and 1964.<ref name=oah/> The couple resided in College Station, where she died at the age of 89; he at 94, in 2016. There were memorial services for both in 2012 and 2016, respectively, at the All Faith Chapel on the Texas A&M campus. Both were [[Cremation|cremated]].<ref name=obit/><ref name=robertr/>
==Legacy==
==Legacy==
In 2004, the Betty M. Unterberger Dissertation Prize was established by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in her honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shafr.org/members/prizes/|title=Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations prizes|publisher=Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> The prize, awarded biannually in the amount of $1,000, recognizes distinguished research and writing by graduate students in the field of diplomatic history. It has been awarded since 2005 in odd years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://shafr.org/content/betty-m-unterberger-dissertation-prize|title=The Betty M. Unterberger Dissertation Prize|publisher=The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations|accessdate=May 22, 2015}}</ref>
In 2004, the Betty M. Unterberger Dissertation Prize was established by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in her honor.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shafr.org/members/prizes/|title=Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations prizes|publisher=Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations|accessdate=October 23, 2010}}</ref> The prize, awarded biannually in the amount of $1,000, recognizes distinguished research and writing by graduate students in the field of diplomatic history. It has been awarded since 2005 in odd years.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://shafr.org/content/betty-m-unterberger-dissertation-prize|title=The Betty M. Unterberger Dissertation Prize|publisher=The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations|accessdate=May 22, 2015}}</ref>
==References==
==References==