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Raymond Gavins, Professor

Raymond Gavins
Contact Info:
Office Location:  302 Carr Building
Office Phone:  (919) 684-2508
Email Address: send me a message

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:

PhDUniversity of Virginia1970
MAUniversity of Virginia1967
BAVirginia Union University1964
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


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