Last updated on:
5/1/2008 |
Author: ProCon.org
Tinsley E. Yarbrough, PhD Biography
- Title:
- Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor and Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at East Carolina University
- Position:
- None Found to the question "Should the Words “under God” Be in the US Pledge of Allegiance?"
- Reasoning:
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No position found as of Feb. 29, 2008
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Instructor in the Political Science Department, East Carolina University, 1967-present
- Phi Kappa Phi Outstanding Scholar Award, 1997
- Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, East Carolina University, 1994-1996
- Outstanding Book Selection, Choice, for book A Passion for Justice: J. Waties Waring and Civil Rights, 1988
- Robert L. Jones Award for Excellence in Teaching, East Carolina University, 1988
- Excellence in Undergraduate Advising award, East Carolina University, 1988
- Chair of the Political Science Department, East Carolina University, 1979-1984
- Authored seven award-winning books, all published by university presses, and has served as editor and contributor to an eighth book
- Published nine reviews and more than 40 refereed articles and book chapters and has presented papers at more than 25 regional, national and international conferences
- Consultant for many presses, grant proposal reviewer for National Endowment for the Humanities and National Science Foundation, and others
- Received funding from more than 28 grants and research proposals
- Alabama Authors Award for Nonfiction, Alabama Library Association, for biography of Judge Johnson, 1983
- Silver Gavel Award, American Bar Association, for book Judge Frank Johnson and Human Rights in Alabama, 1982
- Visiting Professor, University of Virginia, 1978-1979
- Selected to Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Pi Sigma Alpha, Phi Alpha Theta, Omicron Delta Kappa
- Education:
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- PhD, Political Science, University of Alabama, 1967
- MA, Political Science, University of Alabama, 1965
- BA, University of Alabama, 1963
- Other:
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- None found