BUIES CREEK — Richard D. Starnes, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Western Carolina University, will deliver the Campbell University Department of History, Criminal Justice and Political Science’s Anne T. Moore Humanities Lecture Thursday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in Lynch Auditorium.
A historian specializing in the American South, Starnes will speak on “The Flower Lady & the Shoemaker’s Son: Race, Class, Gender & Justice in the 1920s Asheville.”
Starnes has been a faculty member in Western Carolina’s history department since 2000 and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences since 2012. He won the Western Carolina College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award in 2009.
His articles and essays have appeared in Southern Cultures, North Carolina Historical Review and other journals. His books include “Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina,” “Southern Journeys: Tourism, History and Culture in the Modern South,” and “History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie.” He also edits the Appalachian Echoes Series published by the University of Tennessee Press and serves on the North Carolina Historical Commission.
Starnes earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from Western Carolina in 1992 and 1994. He completed his doctorate in history at Auburn University in 1999.
American South historian to deliver Anne T. Moore Humanities Lecture 3/19