Professor Barker's early research interests focused on 19th-century France and gradually pushed outward to include the French influence in Mexico and Texas, backward in time to the period of Louis XIV, and eventually across European boundaries to England and Russia. Her entire teaching career was spent at the University of Texas at Austin, where she began as a lecturer in history in 1955, becoming a full professor in 1972 and Radkey Regents Professor in 1990. Professor Barker was born in Mount Vernon, New York, in 1925. A memorial service was held at the French Legation Museum in Austin, Texas, on May 16. Radkey Regents Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, died on March 30, 1994, after a two-year battle with cancer. We will publish the remainder in the December or January issues. Editor’s Note: Because of space limitations we are not able to publish in this issue of Perspectives all of the obituaries that we have received.
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