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Merline Pitre is a professor of History and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Behavioral Sciences at Texas Southern University.!
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American historian and educator (born 1943)
Merline Pitre (born April 10, 1943) is an American historian and educator. She is a professor of history at Texas Southern University and previously served as president of the Texas State Historical Association in 2011 and 2012.
Life and career
Pitre was born on April 10, 1943, in Opelousas, Louisiana, to parents Florence W. Pitre (d. 2014) and Robert Pitre.[1][2] She grew up in the Louisiana Plaisance community[3] and graduated as valedictorian from Plaisance High School in 1962.[4][5] She received a B.S.
in French from Southern University and an M.A. in French from Atlanta University.
MERLINE PITRE is a professor of history, a former president of the Texas State Historical.
She received another M.A. degree and Ph.D. at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1972 and 1976, respectively.[1]
For three years, Pitre was a teacher at St. Augustine College in Raleigh, North Carolina.
She conducted research at the Library of Congress, Nat
