- Bob McMath
Robert C. (Bob) McMath, Jr. is an historian and Dean of the Honors College of the
University of Arkansas . He received his Ph.D. from theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972. Between then and 2005 he taught history and held a series of administrative posts at Georgia Tech, except for 1996 when he was a Fulbright Lecturer in Italy.Career
Georgia Tech
As Vice Provost at Georgia Tech, McMath oversaw student academic services and coordinated campus-wide initiatives to improve the teaching and learning environment for undergraduates, including the design and partial funding of a $60 million undergraduate learning center. As professor of history he taught a wide range of undergraduate courses and supervised graduate students. He received the
George C. Griffin Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Dean James E. Dull Administrator of the Year Award, and in 2004 was named an honorary alumnus. In 1994, he received the (Georgia) Governor’s Award for the Humanities. [cite news|first=Darshini|last=Nanavati|url=http://dev.nique.gatech.edu/issues/2005-06-03/news/1|title=McMath departs|work=The Technique |date=2005-06-03 |accessdate=2008-02-27] [cite web|url=http://www.assessment.gatech.edu/SACS/QEP/bios/mcmath.php|title=Bob McMath|publisher=Georgia Tech Office of Assessment|accessdate=2008-02-27] While at Georgia Tech, McMath served as faculty advisor for theANAK Society , a secretive honor society of senior students. cite book | publisher=Cherry Logan Emerson | last=McMath | first=Robert C., Jr. | year=1994 | title=William Henry Emerson and the Scientific Discipline at Georgia Tech | id=ISBN 0-9639968-9-4 | pages=122 | quote=He [McMath] is also the faculty advisor to Georgia Tech's senior honor society, which William Emerson helped to found in 1908. ]Arkansas
Dr. McMath’s responsibilities as dean of the Honors College include general oversight of operations in the College, development of new Honors initiatives (in collaboration with the faculty), coordination of activities among college-level Honors Programs, donor stewardship and cultivation, and communication with internal and external audiences about the Honors College. He will also supervise graduate and undergraduate student research and teach Honors courses and colloquia in History. In his role as dean, McMath holds an endowed chair which is funded through a gift from the Walton Family.
Bibliography and selected publications
McMath is the author or co-author of numerous articles and seven books on American history:
*American Populism: A Social History 1877-1898
*Class, Conflict, and Consensus: Antebellum Southern Community Studies (with Orville V. Burton)
*Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance
*Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985 ("seeHistory of Georgia Tech ")
*Adaptable South: Essays in Honor of George Brown Tindall (with Elizabeth Jacoway, Dan T. Carter & Lester C. Lamon)
*Toward a New South: Studies in Post-Civil War Southern Communities (with Orville Burton)
*Is There a Southern Political Tradition?: Essays and Commentaries (Porter M. Fortune Chancellor's Symposium in Southern History)(with William J. Cooper, Michael Perman, Manning Marable, and Patricia Sullivan)
*Preface to Populism: The origin and economic development of the "Southern" Farmers' Alliance in Kansas
*William Henry Emerson and the scientific discipline at Georgia TechReferences
External links
* [http://honorscollege.uark.edu/index.php/aboutdean University of Arkansas bio]
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