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David A. Davis, Assistant Professor of English (PhD, North Carolina, 2006): Dr. Davis studies modern southern literature and culture. He has published essays in African American Review, Mississippi Quarterly, Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, and several other journals. He edited Not Only War by Victor Daly and co-edited North Carolina Slave Narratives, and he is currently writing a book about World War I and southern modernism.
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Chester J. Fontenot, Jr., Baptist Professor of English and Director of Africana Studies (PhD, UC-Irvine, 1975): Dr. Fontenot is the author or editor of four books, including two works in the influential series, Studies in Black American Literature, and the first book-length study of racial theorist Frantz Fanon. Also an ordained Baptist minister, Dr. Fontenot has worked extensively with black gangs and is currently writing two books growing out of those experiences, Gangs, Gods, and Gospels: The Appeal of African-American Street Gangs for Youths and Why Stand Ye Gazing: A Critique of African-American Christianity, 1845-1996. Dr. Fontenot was a founding member and first chair of the Modern Language Association African-American Literature Section and editor of the Black American Literature Forum.
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Sarah Gardner, Professor and Chair of History, Director of Southern Studies, and Director of Honors (PhD, Emory, 1996): Dr. Gardner studies the social and cultural history of the American South, specializing in the history of women. She is the author of Blood and Irony: Southern White Women's Narratives of the Civil War, 1861-1937 and co-editor of Voices of the American South. She teaches in African American Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, directs the Lamar Lectures on Southern history and culture, and co-founded the Southern Studies concentration. She is currently working on a book titled “Reviewing the South: The Politics of Southern Literature and National Reviews, 1920-1950.”
gardner_se@mercer.edu
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Chris Grant, Associate Professor of Political Science (PhD, Georgia, 2000): Dr. Grant studies state politics and policy with a special emphasis on the South and Georgia in particular. In 2003 he authored a history of the Georgia General Assembly entitled Our Arc of Constancy that the Georgia Humanities Council distributed in schools and libraries across the state. He has also published several research articles on political behavior in the American South. His most recent research comparatively examines race and voting trends in several southern cities. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Moldova in 2006 and also served on the Washington staff of U.S. Senator Max Cleland in 2000.
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Andrew Silver, Page Morton Hunter Associate Professor of English (PhD, Emory, 1997): Dr Silver studies 19th-century American Literature, southern literature, religion and literature, drama, and Russian literature. He has written two plays, Combustible/Burn and The Disciples, and he is the author of Minstrelsy and Murder: The Crisis of Southern Humor, 1830-1930. He was selected as Georgia's Professor of the Year for 2003.
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Doug Thompson, Associate Professor and Chair of Interdisciplinary Studies (PhD, Virginia, 2003): Dr. Thompson joined the faculty at Mercer in 2001 as a Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow in the Lily Endowment funded University Commons. His dissertation examines the roles that clergy and churches played in Richmond, Virginia, during mid to late 1950s, in particular their responses to the political movement known as massive resistance. He is currently working on an article for Virginia Magazine of History and Biography concerning a Richmond ministers' association direct challenge to politicians and the massive resistance laws. He is also co-editor with Wil Platt, Jr. of Jesse Mercer's Pulpit: Preaching in a Community of Faith and Learning.
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