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About the Researcher:

Alex Colvin was an in-demand investigative journalist in the early 1990s with free-lance and staff positions with Houston Press, Public News, Montrose Voice, and Innerview Magazine to name a few, with 90% of his work being front page features. He built on that foundation and began serving Genealogy clients professionally in 2005. Not surprisingly, with his investigative background, he excelled in his academic writing assignments and essays while completing his BA in History at the University of Houston where he focused on U.S. Southern Studies and minored in Cultural Anthropology. His academic work was first published in his junior year and again in his senior year in the “Journal of the American Revolution.” He continues publishing at researchgate.net and academia.edu. where he has attracted hundreds of followers

from various academic institutions worldwide. He is also a citizen transcriptionist for The National Archives and Records Administration and a volunteer transcriptionist for the Smithsonian Institute. His public work is featured at his two websites: “The Colvin Study,” which helps the thousands of living descendant of an 18th century Virginia progenitor discover their heritage, and “Narratives in Black and White, “ a scholarly approach which blends genealogy with overlooked history, wherein he reconstructs biographies of historically-ignored mixed-race couples from the antebellum, a project designed to challenge wrongly-perpetuated ideas of race relations in America. He is the 7th-g-grandson of the Colvin Virginia line's progenitor.

EDUCATION: University of Houston, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

Bachelor of Arts in History GPA: 3.0

COURSEWORK:

History: Ancient Civilization, Middle East, Civil War and Reconstruction, Jacksonian America, American Revolution and American Revolution Military History, Historiography, German and French History, Houston History, Chinese History since 1600.

Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology, Theory of Archeology, European Archeology, Anthropology of Religion, Cognitive Anthropology.

EXPERIENCE:

Professional Genealogist See my LinkedIn profile 2005-present
Citizen Transcriptionist, U.S. Smithsonian Institute (Washington, D.C.) 2018-present
Volunteer Archivist, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) 2017-present
Contract Judge, HUDL and UIL Tournaments Houston Independent School District 2016-2018
Website owner / Content Creator: The Colvin Study website https://acolvingeo.wixsite.com/the-colvin-study 2007-present
Website owner / Content Creator: Narratives in Black and White: https://alexcolvin.wixsite.com/narratives 2018-present

Published and working publications:

"The Divine Covenant Expanded: Rev. Daniel Lawrence Hughes, D.D., (1820–1902)" Forthcoming 2023
"A Rebuttal to Elizabeth Stiles," review, www.academia.edu July, 2021
“Miscegenation in America 1850-2014: Toward a Historiographic Overview” Senior research paper, UH Fall, 2018
“Religious Liberty and Its Virginia Roots” JAR Annual Volume March 2017
“Trump and Media Oppression” www.academia.edu March 2017
“A Response to Steve Harper” www.medium.com February 2017
“Clayton House: Profile of a Home” Houston History Magazine Summer 2016
“Religious Liberty in Virginia,” Journal of American Revolution (JAR) October 2016
“What KTRK ABC-13 Gets Wrong,” Cougar Paw October 2016
“Watchdog Groups are the New Journalists” The Daily Cougar January 2016
Oral History, Susan Clayton Garwood Houston History Collaborative, UH Spring 2013

Campus Activities:

Co-Organizer, “Project Safe Campus” (UH Graduate School of Social Work) Fall 2016
Campaign Manager, “Gun Free UH” Awareness campaign for the UH community protesting guns on campus Fall 2016
Charter President, Walter Prescott Webb Historical Society, “Webb UH Main” Chapter Fall 2015