Speaker Spotlight: Lyle Gibson

Career:

• History Professor; Metropolitan Community College—Penn Valley
• Adjunct Professor for the Social Science department at Kansas City Kansas Community College, 1998-present
  

Education:

• Master’s Degree in History from the University of Missouri Kansas City, 1999
• Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, 1996
  

Affiliations:>

• National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
• Midwest Afro American Genealogical Interest Coalition
• Eye of Ra—African Fraternity & Sorority
• Kansas Institute for African American and Native American Family History
• Co-Advisor for the Black Student Association; MCC-Penn Valley
• Co-Advisor for the Advocates of Better Government; MCC-Penn Valley
  

Military:

• U.S. Air Force 1986-1990
• Texas—Strategic Air Command (SAC)
• Greece—NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

Awards/Recognitions:

• Selected as one of the influential faculty members of the Metropolitan Community Colleges—Penn Valley, 2006
• Inducted into the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution—first African American in the Kansas Delaware Crossing Chapter
• Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers; 2006, 2005 and 2002
• Academy for Leadership and Development; 2002 & 2003
• Fulbright Hays GPA Scholar; 1999, Senegal, West Africa
• Minority Master’s Fellowship; 1997 & 1998 University of Missouri Kansas City
  

Publications: Recent

• We Are the American People: Our Nation’s History Through Its Documents (2005) used as a text at the Metropolitan Community Colleges
• Black Tie White Tie: Chronicle of an American Family 1739-1940 (2003; Revised Edition 2006) used as a text at the Metropolitan Community Colleges-Penn Valley

Travel:

• Fulbright Hays Group Projects Abroad Participant Summer 1999
• Senegal, West Africa (Mauritania) 1999
• Greece; Crete; Zachintos; Patras; Achaia; Athens; Olympia; Delphi 1988-1990
  

Interests:

• History
• Genealogy
• Travel
• Music
• Family time