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 Robert
S. McElvaine, the Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts and Letters
and Chair of the Department of History at Millsaps College, was
chosen by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars
in Washington to be a Fulbright Senior Scholar in New Zealand. He
will spend the spring semester of 2007 at the Alexander Turnbull
Library in Wellington, working on a research project comparing the
responses of the New Zealand and U.S. governments to the Great Depression.
McElvaine is
the third Millsaps College professor to be awarded a Fulbright
in
the past year; Dr. Michael Reinhard (political science) is currently
in Krygrzstan, and Dr. Peggy W. Prenshaw (humanities) will be
in China this summer.
McElvaine has
taught at Millsaps College for more than 30 years. He has received
many awards for his teaching, including a silver medal in the national
Professor of the Year program of the Council for the Advancement
and Support of Education and being named Millsaps College's Distinguished
Professor in 2001. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching named him the State Professor of the Year for Mississippi
in 2002.
McElvaine is
the author of six books and the editor of three. Two of his books
have been named among the "Notable Books of the Year"
by the New York Times Book Review, and three have been listed among
the Editor's Choice "Bear in Mind" books in that publication.
He is currently completing a book on America in the 1960s, Oh Freedom!,
which is under contract with Norton.
McElvaine's
articles and opinion pieces appear frequently in such publications
as The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Newsweek
(among many others). More than a hundred of his articles have been
published, some 60 of them in major national publications. He is
also a regular columnist for the [Jackson] Clarion-Ledger. McElvaine
has been a guest on approximately 60 television and radio programs,
including NBC's Today, ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,
NBC Nightly News, National Public Radio's All Things Considered
and Morning Edition, and BBC television and radio. He has also served
as historical consultant for several television programs, including
the seven-episode PBS series The Great Depression.
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