Dr. Gordon E. Harvey
Distinguished Professor of History
Gordon Harvey is a graduate of Auburn University (B.S. 1989, Ph.D. 1998) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (B.S. 1992, M.A. 1994). He returned to his native Alabama in 2008 after teaching at the University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) for nine years and serving as Head of the ULM History Department for one year. He has served on the Board of Directors for the Louisiana Historical Association, the Editorial Board of the Alabama Review, and was a founding Consulting Editor for the Encyclopedia of Alabama. The recipient of two endowed professorships, Harvey received several teaching awards in Louisiana, including the ULM Student Government Association Outstanding Faculty Award (2001 and 2005), Outstanding Professor in the ULM College of Arts & Sciences (2005), and various awards from student groups at Auburn University and ULM. He has also served in a number of interim and fellowship administrative roles, including Interim Head of Theatre and Film, Interim Director of the Little River Canyon Center, Administrative Fellow to the Provost, and Interim Director of the Office of Sponsored Programs.
Harvey has taught a range of courses, including the History of Soccer, a Seminar in American Capitalism, History and Hollywood, History of American Advertising, Recent America, and the History of Cannabis.
A specialist in the 1970s and its politics, Harvey has written or edited four books, including A Question of Justice: New South Governors and Education Reform, 1968-1976 (University of Alabama Press, 2002), History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie: Scholarship, Activism and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South (co-editor with Richard Starnes and Glenn Feldman--University of Alabama Press, 2006), Historic Ouachita Parish (Historical Publishing Network, 2007), and The Politics of Trust: Reubin Askew and Florida in the 1970s (University of Alabama Press, 2015). He is currently writing about preparing for the transition to academic administration.
Outside academia, Harvey is a trail and ultramarathon runner who competes in mountain races ranging from 31 to 100 miles, an executivecoach, and a street and documentary photographer. He is also an avid soccer fan and a soccer referee.