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'''Betty Miller Unterberger''' (December 27, 1922 &ndash; 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; text of obituary no longer on-line}}</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; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

'''Betty Miller Unterberger''' (December 27, 1922 &ndash; 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; text of obituary no longer on-line}}</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; no longer on-line}}</ref>​

Unterberger was born in [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]], to Joseph "Scotty" Miller and the former Leah Milner,<ref name=obit/> 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=obit/> 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=obit/> 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=obit/> from the women's Radcliffe College in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]], now part of [[Harvard University]].<ref name=oah/>

Unterberger was particularly influenced at Radcliffe/Harvard by the diplomatic historian Thomas A. Bailey, a visiting scholar from [[Stanford University]]. It was from Bailey that she learned about American Expeditionary Force troops sent to [[Siberia]] after [[World War I]] during the [[Russian Civil War]] between the [[Bolshevik]]s and the Menshevik]s. Her [[Ph.D.]] dissertation at [[Duke University]] in Durham, [[North Carolina]], became the basis for her first book on the subject, the award-winning ''America's Siberian Expedition, 1918-1920: A Study of National Policy.''<ref name=oah/>

Unterberger was particularly influenced at Radcliffe/Harvard by the diplomatic historian Thomas A. Bailey, a visiting scholar from [[Stanford University]]. It was from Bailey that she learned about American Expeditionary Force troops sent to [[Siberia]] after [[World War I]] during the [[Russian Civil War]] between the [[Bolshevik]]s and the Mensheviks. Her [[Ph.D.]] dissertation at [[Duke University]] in Durham, [[North Carolina]], became the basis for her first book on the subject, the award-winning ''America's Siberian Expedition, 1918-1920: A Study of National Policy.''<ref name=oah/>

At Duke, Unterberger enrolled in a seminar with Professor Charles Sydnor. She wrote a paper on Thomas Braidwood of Scotland and the origin of schools for the hearing impaired.<ref name=oah/> This article, "The First Attempt to Establish an Oral School for the Deaf and Dumb in the United States," was published in 1947 in ''The Journal of Southern History'' and became the first of her many publications.<ref>Betty Miller Unterberger, "The First Attempt to Establish an Oral School for the Deaf and Dumb in the United States," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. XIII (November, 1947), pp. 556-566.</ref> This was a  much different topic than her later writings, the majority of which focus on foreign policy.​

At Duke, Unterberger enrolled in a seminar with Professor Charles Sydnor. She wrote a paper on Thomas Braidwood of Scotland and the origin of schools for the hearing impaired.<ref name=oah/> This article, "The First Attempt to Establish an Oral School for the Deaf and Dumb in the United States," was published in 1947 in ''The Journal of Southern History'' and became the first of her many publications.<ref>Betty Miller Unterberger, "The First Attempt to Establish an Oral School for the Deaf and Dumb in the United States," ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. XIII (November, 1947), pp. 556-566.</ref> This was a  much different topic than her later writings, the majority of which focus on foreign policy.​

 

==Academic career==

==Academic career==

 

From 1948-1950, while she was still working on her Ph.D., Unterberger taught at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. From 1954 to 1961, she was an associate professor of history and the director of the Liberal Arts Center for Adults at Whittier College in Whittier, [[California]], and from 1961 to 1965, an associate professor at California State University, Fullerton, at which from 1965 to 1968 she was professor and chair of the graduate studies division.<ref name=bmuvita>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/unterberger/cv.pdf|title=Betty Miller Unterberger: Curriculum Vitae|publisher=tamu.edu|accessdate=October 23, 2010; no longer on-line}}</ref>

From 1948-1950, while she was still working on her Ph.D., Unterberger taught at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. From 1954 to 1961, she was an associate professor of history and the director of the Liberal Arts Center for Adults at Whittier College in Whittier, [[California]], and from 1961 to 1965, an associate professor at California State University, Fullerton, at which from 1965 to 1968 she was professor and chair of the graduate studies division.<ref name=bmuvita>{{cite web|url=http://www.tamu.edu/history/faculty/unterberger/cv.pdf|title=Betty Miller Unterberger: Curriculum Vitae|publisher=tamu.edu|accessdate=October 23, 2010; no longer on-line}}</ref>

===Selected publications===

===Selected publications===

 

*Unterberger, Betty Miller (1947) "The First Attempt to Establish an Oral School for the Deaf and Dumb in the United States." ''The Journal of Southern History.'' '''13'''(4):556–566. {{doi|10.2307/2198327}}.​

*Unterberger, Betty Miller (1947) "The First Attempt to Establish an Oral School for the Deaf and Dumb in the United States." ''The Journal of Southern History.'' '''13'''(4):556–566. {{doi|10.2307/2198327}}.​

*______ (1956) ''America's Siberian Expedition, 1918-1920: A Study of National Policy.'' Durham: Duke University Press, 271 p. OCLC|397147.​

*______ (1956) ''America's Siberian Expedition, 1918-1920: A Study of National Policy.'' Durham: Duke University Press, 271 p. OCLC|397147.​

*______ (1987) "Woodrow Wilson and the Bolsheviks: The Acid Test of Soviet-American Relations." ''Diplomatic History,'' Vol. 11, pp.71–90. {{doi|10.1111/j.1467-7709.1987.tb00006.x}}.​

*______ (1987) "Woodrow Wilson and the Bolsheviks: The Acid Test of Soviet-American Relations." ''Diplomatic History,'' Vol. 11, pp.71–90. {{doi|10.1111/j.1467-7709.1987.tb00006.x}}.​

*______ (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.​<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=itRmAAAAMAAJ|title=The United States, Revolutionary Russia and the Rise of Czechoslovakia|publisher=[[University of North Carolina]] Press|accessdate=October 15, 2019}}</ref>

*______ (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.​<ref>{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=itRmAAAAMAAJ|title=The United States, Revolutionary Russia and the Rise of Czechoslovakia|publisher=[[University of North Carolina]] Press|accessdate=October 15, 2019}}</ref>

 

==Family life==

==Family life==

==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 15, 2019}}</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 15, 2019}}</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==

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