Nationality American Occupation Professor of History | Name Wayne Flynt Role Professor | |
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Born October 4, 1940 (age 83) ( 1940-10-04 ) Alma mater Florida State University
Samford University Education Florida State University, Samford University Books Poor But Proud: Alabama, Keeping the Faith: Ordinary, Alabama in the twentieth, Dixie's forgotten people, Alabama Baptists | ||
Wayne flynt poor but proud twenty years later
James Wayne Flynt (born October 4, 1940) is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Auburn University. He has won numerous teaching awards and been a Distinguished University Professor for many years. His research focuses on Southern culture, Alabama politics, Southern religion, education reform, and poverty. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Online Encyclopedia of Alabama.
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- Wayne flynt poor but proud twenty years later
- Wayne flynt on the future of christianity
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Wayne flynt on the future of christianity
Biography
Flynt received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Howard College (shortly before its reorganization as Samford University) in 1961 before taking his Master of Science (1962) and Ph.D. (1965) from Florida State University. After teaching at Samford for 12 years, he joined the faculty at Auburn University in 1977, where he remained until his retirement in 2005.
Growing up, Flynt moved frequently around the South with his parents because his father held a series of primarily sales jobs. The family landed a couple of occasions in Anniston, Ala., where Professor Flynt was graduated from high school in 1958. His mother taught fourth grade in the Alabama towns of Oxford, Opelika, Center Point and Pinson. Her obituary in The Birmingham News said she lived in thirty places in three states during her sixty-year marriage. She married Flynt's father in 1938.
Dr. Flynt has written 13 books that focus largely on the historical, economic and social fabric of Alabama, including Poor But Proud: Alabama's Poor Whites (1990), and he co-wrote Alabama: A History of a Deep South State, both of which were nominated for Pulitzer Prizes. He is editor-in-chief of the online Encyclopedia of Alabama, a partnership of Auburn University and the Alabama Humanities Foundation.
In 2002, the University of Alabama journalism department named Dr Flynt as the winner of the Clarence Cason Writing Award, given to an author writing about or closely identified with the state of Alabama.
Dr. Flynt and his wife Dorothy have two sons, Sean and David.