Gordon E. Harvey

Gordon E. Harvey (Auburn History Ph.D., 1998) wrote his dissertation under the direction of Professor J. Wayne Flynt on "New South Governors and Education Reform, 1968-1976: Albert Brewer, Reubin Askew, and John West." His first book, A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education, 1968-1976, appeared in 2002 from the University of Alabama Press.

He has taught at the University of Louisiana at Monroe since 2000, and was recently named the L.M. McKneely Professor of Humanities, a 3-year endowed appointment that comes with an annual research budget. He recently published a book chapter on environmental politics in 1970s Florida and is finishing a political biography of Reuben Askew, Florida governor from 1971-1979, and has started research for a book on the 1970s South, tentatively entitled Dixie in the Age of Disco.

He is married to Marie, and has two sons, Preston and Hudson.

Last updated September 26, 2005.
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