Chester D. Tripp Chair in Humanities, Emeritus

Professor of General Studies, Emeritus

Berea College

During my 31 years on the faculty of Berea College I held several positions: Head of Public Services in Hutchins Library, Head of Special Collections and Archives, Director of General Education, Academic Division Chair, and Interim Associate Provost. I taught primarily in Berea’s interdisciplinary General Studies core curriculum and occasionally in the Religion and History Departments, respectively. In 2024 I received the Seabury Award for Excellence in Teaching. My book Thoughts that Burned: William Goodell, Human Rights, and the Abolition of American Slavery will be published by Cornell University Press in April 2025. For a description of this book, go to the Thoughts that Burned link above.