Andrew Doyle

Associate Professor of History

Bancroft 376

(803) 323-4689

doylea@winthrop.edu

Background:

Dr. Doyle received his undergraduate education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and his
graduate education at Emory University, where he was awarded his Ph.D. in 1998.  His primary fields
of interest are the modern South, U. S. cultural history, and sports history.  Joining the Winthrop Faculty
in August 1997, he taught previously at Auburn University at Montgomery.

 

Resume

Recent and Representative Publications and Presentations:

• "John Heisman vs. the Amateur Sport: Gamesmanship in a Gentlemanly Sport," North American Society for        
  Sports History, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, May 2006.

• "Fighting Whiskey and Immorality at Auburn': The Politics of Southern Football, 1919-1927," Southern
  Cultures, 2005.

• "Intersectional Football in an Era of Sectional Reconciliation, 1900-1917", North American Society for
  Sport History Conference, Monterrey, CA, May 2004.

• "Turning the Tide: Football and Southern Progressivism" and "Bear Bryant: Symbol for an Embattled South",
  in Patrick B. Miller (ed.), The Sporting World of the Modern South (University of Illinois Press, 2002).

• "George Denny, Intercollegiate Football, and the Institutional Modernization of the University of Alabama,
  1912-1934", North American Society for Sport History, May, 2002.

• "Machine-Made Time for a Machine Age Sport: Football and Modern Time Consciousness, 1880-1930," 
   American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, January, 1998.

• "Foolish and Useless Sport: The Southern Evangelical Crusade Against Intercollegiate Football", Journal 
  of Sport History, 1997.   

• "Turning the Tide: College Football and Southern Progressivism", Southern Cultures, 1997.

Classes taught:

• 211. United States History to 1877 (3).
  A survey of political, diplomatic, economic, social, intellectual, and ethnic history through Reconstruction,
  with attention to development of the Federal Constitution. 
  Notes: Offered in spring.

• 212. United States History since 1877 (3).
  A survey of political, diplomatic, economic, social, intellectual and ethnic history since Reconstruction,
  with attention to development of the Federal Constitution. 
  Notes: Offered in fall.

• 321 Southern Religious History (3)
  A social and cultural history of religion in the South from the colonial era until the present day.

• 521 The New South (3)
  A study of Southern social, political, and cultural development from Reconstruction to the present. 

• 524 The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1933 (3)
  A study of industrialization, populism, urbanism, Social Darwinism, imperialism, Progressivism, World
  War I and its aftermath, and the cultural transformations of the 1920s.

• 350  U. S. Sports History 
  A study of the social and cultural significance of American sports from the colonial era until the present.   

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