Kenneth (Ken) Vickers, Ph.D. Professor, History
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Biography
Dr. Vickers received his BS degree from the University of North Alabama and his MA and PhD from Mississippi State University. He also holds a Certificate in Campus Sustainability Leadership from the University of Vermont’s School of Continuing Education. He specializes in the American South and the American West, as well as United States social and cultural history. He has taught at the University of North Alabama, Mississippi State University, and the Mississippi University for Women. He has been at Martin Methodist College/UTSouthern since 2005.
Education
Kenneth is a first-generation college graduate.
- B.S., University of North Alabama
- M.A., Mississippi State University
- Ph.D., Mississippi State University
Publications
- 2004 – T.S. Stribling: A Life of the Tennessee Novelist. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
- 2016 – “Forgotten but Not Gone.” Humanities Tennessee. www.chapter16.org.
- 2022 – James C. Cobb. C. Vann Woodward: America’s Historian. Reviewed for Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Winter 2022, 406-407.
- 2013 – Emily Satterwhite. Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878. Reviewed for Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Summer 2013, 151-53.
- 2007 – Tiffany Ruby Patterson. Zora Neale Hurston and a History of Southern Life. Reviewed for Florida Historical Quarterly, Spring 2007, 590-92.
- 2003 – Glenn Feldman, editor. Reading Southern History: Essays on Interpreters and Interpretations. Reviewed for Alabama Review, July 2003, 208-10.
- 2002 – Bertram Wyatt-Brown. The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace, and War, 1760s-1880s. Reviewed for Mississippi Quarterly, Spring 2002, 276-79.
Awards
- Fred E. Ford Exemplary Teaching Award, Martin Methodist College, May 2014.
- Redhawks Athletics S.O.A.R. (Success Over and Above the Rest) Award, Martin Methodist College, September 2014.
- Gamma Beta Phi’s Outstanding Teacher of 2005-2006, Martin Methodist College, May 2006.