Rhonda Tintle received her B.A. in History with minors in Ethnic Diversity and Communications Studies from California State University at Los Angeles.  She received her Masters Degree from Oklahoma State University in History in 2006.  Ms Tintle is currently a Hudson Fellow at OU working on her dissertation directed by Professor Albert Hurtado.  Ms Tintle’s fields are US Intellectual History, American West History, and Modern China. She has received many scholarly awards including the Ben Procter Award at the Southwest Social Science National Conference, the Robberson Research Fellowship, the Berlin B. Chapman Endowed Scholarship, the Western History Association Graduate Scholarship, the Townsend Memorial Scholarship, and the Sturgis Fellowship.  Ms Tintle has been an archival intern for several summers at the Oklahoma State Historical Society and the Arizona State Historical Society.