Department:
President's Office
Place of Birth: Bartow, Polk County, Florida
Position: Special Assistant and Counsel to the President; Professor of History
Department: Office of the President
Faculty Bio Education:
Fort Meade, Florida, Jr.-Sr. High School (1966);
Florida State University (B.A., History, 1970) (J.D., with honors, 1972);
University of Florida (doctoral program in history, 1989-1991);
Florida State University (Ph.D., United States History, 1994)
Publications:
Florida’s Peace River Frontier (University Press of Florida, 1991); Ossian Bingley Hart, Florida’s Loyalist Reconstruction Governor (Southern Biography Series, LSU Press, 1997); The Supreme Court of Florida and Its Predecessor Courts, with Walter M. Manley and Eric W. Rise (University Press of Florida, 1997); Florida’s Black Public Officials, 1867-1924 (University of Alabama Press, 1998); Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams, ed. with James M. Denham (University of South Carolina Press, 2000); Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895, with Larry Eugene Rivers (University Press of Florida, 2001); For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905, with Larry Eugene Rivers (University Press of Florida, 2004); The Supreme Court of Florida, 1917-1972, with Walter W. Manley (University Press of Florida, 2006).
Research Interests:
Southern history, African American history, women’s history, Florida history, religious history, legal history, frontier history