Dr. Richard E. Hartwig
4 linear feet
A2017-053
1890-1945 (unknown)
Hartwig majored in German and Government at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, having spent one undergraduate year at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He completed his Masters and Doctorate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hartwig worked on his M.A. and his Spanish during a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship year in Argentina (1966-67), after his first year in graduate school. HIs major professor in Madison was the noted Latin Americanist Charles W. Anderson.
Hartwig's primary examination fields in graduate school were Comparative Politics/Latin America, Public Administration and Political Philosophy. Much of Hartwig’s scholarship is based on the work of the late philosopher of the social sciences Paul Diesing. The theoretical framework of Hartwig's dissertation, which ultimately became the book Roads to Reason: Transportation, Administration, and Rationality in Colombia, came from Diesing's 1962 book Reason in Society: Five Types of Practical Reason and Their Social Conditions.
Hartwig's first teaching position was a one-year job at Vanderbilt University, followed by short-term positions at Coe College, Iowa State University and The College of Charleston, while he worked on his dissertation. Three years at Illinois State University were followed by a one-year job teaching on Air Force bases in the Portuguese Azores; Spain; Germany and Turkey. Hartwig's next stop was Valdosta State College in Georgia, followed by a Fulbright year at the University of Monterrey, Mexico and two years at Monterrey Technical Institute (ITESM) in the same city.
The last 24 years of Hartwig's academic career were spent at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, with developmental leave semesters in Mexico and Australia. While in Kingsville, Hartwig developed the Regional Economic Proposal for reform of the United Nations Security Council. It features representation by ten world Regions rather than representation by individual countries. As of December 2017, Hartwig had made presentations on this proposal in eight different countries.
Dr. Hartwig’ s collection contains Texas A&M University-Kingsville records relating to the time that he was Department Chair of the Department of History, Political Science and Philosophy. These include annual evaluations, curriculum changes, political science department documents and projects, Honors Program documents and papers related to the Rio Bravo Association and the International Affairs Group which he headed on campus. A folder is dedicated to the work Dr. Hartwig did while on Sabbatical in Australia. A topic that Dr. Hartwig taught and devoted research and writing to in the past five years was drug related violence and crime in Mexico and Latin America. His research and papers on this topic comprise a substantial part of this collection.
Series I: TAMUK University Records Sub-Series A: Annual Evaluations Sub-Series B: Curriculum Changes Sub-Series C: Political Projects and Public Awareness Sub-Series D: Political Science Department Documents Sub-Series E: Proposal for Foreign Language Competence for Undergraduate Students Sub-Series F: Presented Papers and Research Sub-Series G: Honors Program Sub-Series H: Rio Bravo Association Sub-Series I: International Affairs Group Sub-Series J: Sabbatical to Australia Sub-Series K: Photographs Sub-Series L: Curriculum Vita Series II: Research on Drug Related Violence in Mexico and Latin America Sub-Series A: Presented Papers and Research Sub-Series B: Research Journal Articles Sub-Series C: Research Newspaper Articles Sub-Series D: Official Government Publications Sub-Series E: Texas A&M International University Publications
South Texas Archives, James C. Jernigan Library, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
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A2002-036 Gift of David Standish
A2017-053 processed and finding aid partially created by Lori Atkins; Dr. Hartwig contributed the “Historical Note.” The EAD document and upload of all records work of Daniel Thacker in 2017.