Visiting Scholars
Dr. Kurt Piehler
Florida State University
G. Kurt Piehler, Director of the Institute of World War II and the Human Experience and Associate Professor of History at Florida State University, is the author of A Religious History of the American GI in World War II (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), Remembering War the American Way (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, reprint ed., 2004) and World War II (Greenwood Press, 2007) in the American Soldiers’ Lives series.
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Dr. Gregory Mixon
University of North Carolina
Gregory Mixon served during the fall of 2021 as the Interim Director of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Center for the Study of the New South. He was the spring 2019 Fulbright Fellow and Research Chair in North American Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada serving as Visiting Professor of History in the Department of History.
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Dr. Maxine Jones
Florida State University
Maxine D. Jones is a Professor of History at The Florida State University. She is the co-author of two books with Joe M. Richardson, Talladega College: The First Century and Education for Liberation: The American Missionary Association and African Americans, 1890 to the Civil Rights Movement (2009).
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Dr. Julia Brock
University of Alabama
Julia Brock is an assistant professor of History at the University of Alabama, where she coordinates the Public History Concentration. She received an M.A. from Florida State University in Public History and Historical Administration and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Dr. Jennifer Brooks
Auburn University
Jennifer Brooks is a Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at Auburn University and past president of the Southern Labor Studies Association. Her most recent book is Resident Strangers: Immigrant Laborers in New South Alabama (LSU Press, 2022), which explores the diverse experiences of laborers from around the world as cogs in the New South industrial machine.
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Dr. Le’Trice Donaldson
Texas A&M University
Le’Trice Donaldson, Assistant Professor of History at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Dr. Donaldson specializes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century African American military history, the Gilded Age, WWI, and Gender History. She works at the intersection of race, gender, military service, and the long civil rights movement.
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Kevin McGorty
Land Conservancy Director
Since 1994, Kevin McGorty has been the Land Conservancy Director for Tall Timbers Research, Inc. Founded in 1958, the mission of Tall Timbers is to foster exemplary land stewardship through research, conservation, and education. The Tall Timbers Land Conservancy (created in 1990) has saved 158,000 acres of environmentally sensitive land on 129 properties in North Florida and Southwest Georgia via donated conservation easements.
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Dr. Wesley Singletary
Author
Wes Singletary is the author of three books: The Right Time: John Henry “Pop”; Lloyd and Black Baseball; Al Lopez: The Life of Baseball’s El Senor; and Florida’s First Big League Baseball Players: A Narrative History. He is also a contributing author of The Pride of Smoke Town: The 1935 Pittsburgh Crawfords. Wes has a Ph.D. in History from Florida State University and currently teaches AP United States History at Lawton Chiles High School.
MoreApplication Deadline: March 3, 2023
Acceptance/Regrets: April 3, 2023
Accept/Decline Offer: April 14, 2023
Waitlist Accept/Regrets: April 15, 2023
Session I: July 9-14, 2023
Session II: July 23- July 28, 2023
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