Robert "Ty" Cashion

Ty Cashion is Professor of History and has enjoyed teaching at Sam Houston State University since 1999. He is a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and is currently the university’s only representative in the prestigious Texas Institute of Letters. He is also past-president of the East Texas Historical Association and has served on the boards of several other historical societies.

Texas Monthly magazine included Dr. C in a short list of “a new breed of scholars” that is “changing the way contemporary Texans look at their state.” Most recently he completed Lone Star Mind: Reimagining Texas History. It will appear in November. Among Cashion’s other published volumes includes Sam Houston State University: An Institutional Memory.