Raymond Gavins, Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	302 Carr Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-2508
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• HOUSECS 59.08, HOUSE COURSE (SP TOP) Synopsis

  Keohane MEDIA ROOM, M 07:00 PM-08:30 PM

• HISTORY 346.01, AFRICANS IN AMERICA TO 1865 Synopsis

  Carr 103, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 206.01)

• HISTORY 481S.01, CAP SEM: AGE OF JIM CROW Synopsis

  Carr 242, Th 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 409S.01)

Education:

PhD	University of Virginia	1970
MA	University of Virginia	1967
BA	Virginia Union University	1964

Specialties:

Race and Ethnicity

Research Interests: Research and teaching: Modern America, Afro-America, and American South.

Research and teaching: Modern America, Afro-America, and American South

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications

1. R. Gavins, A Historical Overview of the Barriers Faced by Black American Males in Pursuit of Higher Education, Diversity in Higher Education: Diminishing Proportions, edited by Henry T. Frierson, Willie Pearson Jr., and James H. Wyche, vol. Vol. 6 (Submitted, 2009), pp. 13-29, Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Fellowships: Ford, NEH, Rockefeller, Southern, Carter G. Woodson Institute, Whitney M. Young Jr., Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Co-recipient: Distinguished Oral History Project Award, Oral History Association, 1996; Carey McWilliams Book Award, 2002; Lillian Smith Book Award, 2002.

Julian Francis Abele Achievement Award, Black Graduate and Professional Student Association, 1998.

Recipient: John W. Blassingame Award, Southern Historical Association, 2008