CURRICULUM VITAE
L. Andrew Doyle
Department of History, Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC 29733
803-323-4689; e-mail: doylea@winthrop.edu
Emory University, Ph.D., 1998
University of Alabama at Birmingham, B.A., 1987
Winthrop University, Assistant Professor of History (September 1997 – present)
Auburn University at Montgomery, Instructor of History (March 1994 – June 1997)
Post-Civil War U. S. History
Southern History
U. S. Cultural History
Sports History
U. S. History Survey, I and II
World Civilizations, I and II
New South, 1877-present
Old South to 1877
Southern Religious History
U. S. Sports History
History of American Football
U. S. Social and Cultural History
The Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1933
Cultural Modernity in America, 1865-1929
Causes Won, Not Lost, College Football and Southern Culture, 1888-1917. Forthcoming; under contract with University of Illinois Press
“Fighting Whiskey and Immorality at Auburn: The Politics of Southern Football 1919-1927.”
Southern Cultures 10 (Fall 2004): 6-30.
“Foolish and Useless Sport: The Southern Evangelical Crusade Against Intercollegiate Football.”
Journal of Sport History 24 (Fall 1997): 317-340.
“Turning the Tide: College Football and Southern Progressivism.” Southern Cultures 3
(Fall 1997): 28-51.
“Bear Bryant: Symbol for an Embattled South,” Colby Quarterly 32 (March 1996): 72-86. Edited version published in Patrick Bryant Miller, ed.,
The Sporting World of the Modern South, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
“Causes Won, Not Lost: College Football and the Modernization of the American South,”
International Journal of the History of Sport 11 (August 1994): 231-251. Edited version published in Patrick Bryant Miller, ed.,
The Sporting World of the Modern South, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002.
Essay Collections
“Sports in the Twentieth Century South.” The American South in the Twentieth Century, eds.
Craig Pascoe, Karen Leatham, and Andy Ambrose. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005).
Review of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. The Public Historian 27 (Fall 2005): 111-113.
“College Football in Appalachia.” Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Knoxville: University of
Tennessee Press, 2005.
“Gender Roles in the American Family.” The Family in America: An Encyclopedia. Santa
Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2002, 461-475.
“Competitiveness.” Boyhood in America: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2001.
Review of A Roast for Coach Dan Spear: Small Town Football Dreams from the Florida Fifties.
Journal of Sport History 26 (Fall 1999) 613-14.
“Paul William ‘Bear’ Bryant.” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. New York:
Scribner’s, 1998, 109-111.
“Intercollegiate Sports.” The Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present.
Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 1996, 506-515.
Paper Presentations
“John Heisman vs. the Amateur Spirit: Gamesmanship in a Gentlemanly Sport.” Presented at the North American Society for Sport
History (NASSH), Glenwood Springs, Colorado, May 2006.
Jonathan Marx, Scott Huffmon, and Andrew Doyle. “The Collegiate Athlete and the NCAA Student-Athlete Model.” Presented at the
Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans, March 2006.
“Sports Journalism, Individualism, and the Star Athlete: Southern College Football, 1890-1905.” Presented at the National Council on
Public History, Kansas City, April 2005.
“Class Identity and Sectional Consciousness at Southern Universities: Intersectional Football, 1890-1917.” Presented at NASSH,
Pacific Grove, CA, May 2004. Also presented at The Historical Society, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, June 2004.
“Fighting Whiskey and Immorality” at Auburn: Jazz Age Culture and Southern Campus Life During the 1920s.” presented at the
South Carolina Historical Association, Greenville, South Carolina, March 2004.
“No Whiter Soul: Class and Racial Paternalism in Jim Crow-Era Southern Football.” Presented at the Popular Culture Association,
New Orleans, April 2003.
“George Denny, Intercollegiate Football, and the Modernization of the University of Alabama, 1912-1934.” Presented at NASSH,
French Lick, Indiana, May 2002.
“Intimacy and Subordination: Southern College Football and the Culture of Segregation, 1890-1930.” Presented at NASSH,
London, Ontario, May 2001.
“Gentlemanly Sportsmanship and the Athletic Spirit: William Dudley, Southern Football, and the Hegemony of the Amateur Ideology.”
Presented at NASSH, Banff, Alberta, May 2000. Also presented at the Tucker Society, August 2001.
“Machine-Made Time for a Machine Age Sport: Football and Modern Time Consciousness, 1880-1930.” Presented at the
American Historical Association, Seattle, January 1998.
“Everybody Concerned Looks Ridiculous: Alabama, Auburn, and the Politics of College Football, 1892-1930.” Presented at NASSH,
Springfield, Massachusetts, May 1997.
“The Public Is All but Intoxicated on Football’: Spright Dowell and the Politics of Football at Auburn University, 1919-27.” Presented at
NASSH, Auburn, Alabama, May 1996.
“From Stonewall Jackson to Branch Rickey: Bear Bryant ant the Racial Symbolism of Southern Football.” Presented at the Organization
of American Historians, Chicago, March 1996.
“Medieval Ritual and Machine Age Sport: The ‘Fair Sponsors’ of Early Southern Football.” Presented at the American Historical
Association, Atlanta, January 1996.
“Science and Chivalry: The Cultural Syncretism of Southern Intercollegiate Football, 1892-1910.” Presented at the Southern Historical
Association, New Orleans, November 1995.
“College Football and the Mythology of the New South.” Presented at NASSH, Long Beach, California, May 1995.
“Foolish and Useless Sport: The Southern Evangelical Crusade Against College Football, 1890-1930.” Presented at NASSH,
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, May 1994.
“‘Paying Homage to the Brilliant Sons of Alabama’: The Southern Response to the 1926 Rose Bowl.” Presented at NASSH,
Albuquerque, May, 1993.
“Bear Bryant: Symbol for an Embattled South.” Presented at NASSH, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May 1992.
Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, March 2007 (forthcoming)
Kershaw County Library, July 2004
Rock Hill Kiwanis Club, August 2002
East Tennessee Historical Society, October 1997
Alabama Department of Archives and History, October 1997
Symposium on Leisure and Modern Life, University of Southern Mississippi, March 1996
Alabama State Council on the Arts, Birmingham, June 1995
Consultant for and on-camera appearance on ESPN Sports Century documentary profile of Paul “Bear” Bryant, December 2002.
Primary consultant for and on-camera appearance on “Roses of Crimson,” documentary produced by the Alabama Center for
Public Television, 1997
Grants and Awards
Emory University Scholarship and Fellowship, 1987-1991
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-92
Winthrop University Research Council Grants, 1999-2000, 2000-01, 2004-05, and 2005-06