Dr. Lybeth Hodges is a Professor of History and director of the department's teacher certification program. Before coming to Texas Woman's University in 1989, she taught in the University of Maryland's Far East Division on U.S. military bases in the Philippines and Japan. Dr. Hodges is the Southwest Advisor of the student
interdisciplinary, honor and service society, Gamma Beta Phi, and teaches freshmen in the university's Honors Scholar Program. Her special academic interests are frontier North America and Australia, and she enjoys teaching a wide variety of courses.
