The Tenth Annual (2000) Averitt Lecturer, Don H. Doyle

The Tenth Annual Averitt Lecturer will be Professor Don H. Doyle, who holds the Nelson Tyrone, Jr., Chair in History at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He has had a distinguished career as scholar and teacher in the United States and Europe.

Professor Doyle received his B.A. degree from the University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He joined the Department of History at Vanderbilt in 1974. He was a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Leeds, England, in 1997-1998 and was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1995, and at the University of Rome, Italy, in 1991.

Professor Doyle's published works include The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-70 (1978), New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910 (1990), and a two-volume history of Nashville, Tennessee (1985). He has recently completed a study of Lafayette County, Mississippi, the place that was the inspiration for William Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The book entitled Land Divided: A History of Faulkner's County, 1540-1962, will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2001. In addition, he and sociologist Larry J. Griffin coedited The South as an American Problem (1995), an anthology that examines the relationship between the South and the rest of the nation from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines. He has also edited and contributed to a collection of essays entitled Nationalism and Regionalism in Italy and the United States, which will be published by the University of Georgia Press. He was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and the Encyclopedia of Tennessee History and Culture, and has published articles in several journals, including American Quarterly, Social Science History, the South Carolina Magazine of History, and the Tennessee Historical Quarterly.

Professor Doyle has received numerous awards and honors, including fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Vanderbilt University Research Council, and the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History at Harvard University.

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