Pierce Mullen was a professor of history at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana and was a participant in the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation and the Quest for Knowledge Club.
11 Facts About Pierce Mullen
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Pierce Mullen was born on March 4,1934, in Hastings, Nebraska to Neil Mullen and Ruth Pierce.
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In 1964, Pierce Mullen earned his PhD in history from the University of California-Berkeley.
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Pierce Mullen served in the United States Air Force at the James Connally Air Force Base in Waco, Texas, where he worked as a military historian.
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Pierce Mullen met his wife Margaret in 1957 when he was working as a seasonal ranger in Yellowstone National Park and she was working seasonally at the soda fountain at Fishing Bridge in her summer off from teaching middle school in Cut Bank, Montana.
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Pierce Mullen would become instrumental in the establishment of bachelor's and master's criteria for what would become the Department of History in 1964.
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Pierce Mullen went on to become the Department Head of History, Government and Philosophy from 1969 to 1975.
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Pierce Mullen participated in National Humanities summer grants at Harvard, UC Santa Barbara, and West Point.
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Pierce Mullen was a founding member of the Montana Committee for the Humanities, where, in 1972, he and other founding members met with officials of the National Endowment of the Humanities to discuss the formation of a Montana state humanities council.
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Pierce Mullen helped to establish the Montana Governor's Humanities Award in 1995, and participated in the Montana Constitutional Convention.
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In 1993, Mullen co-authored In the People's Interest: A Centennial History of Montana State University with Jeffrey J Safford and Robert Rydell.