Biography

Education

PhD, history, UNC Chapel Hill
ME, economics, NC State
BA, history, USC Columbia

Biography

He was born in upcountry to a chemist and and educator in 1948.  He joined civil rights movement in Columbia because of his girlfriend, now wife Rita.  He has taught at UNC Chapel Hill, University of Mississippi, St Andrews Presbyterian College, Florida International University, and Emory & Henry College.  He writes intellectual biography of southern figures.

Interesting Facts

Professor of Year for Virginia, 2005-2006, CASE/Carnegie Citation for Educational Career from Virginia House of Delegates, 2013 Author of biographies of C Vann Woodward, Ulrich Bonnel Phillips, Paul Eliot Green, and Benjamin Elijah Mays

Teaching Areas

Southern race relations and southern intellectual history

Research Areas

Southern race relations and southern intellectual history