Dr. Ronnie Faulkner, director of Library Services and associate professor of history at Campbell University, recently published two articles in the national journals, “ERBzine,” an online magazine dedicated to author Edgar Rice Burroughs, and “The Historian,” one of the most widely read scholarly journals in the nation.Titled “Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Martian Novels as an Early Paradigm of Racial Toleration,” the first article deals with the author’s view on race relations. The second article, published in “The Historian,” is a review of John R. Scales’ book, “Sherman Invades Georgia: Planning the North Georgia Campaign Using Modern Perspective.”Dr. Ronnie W. Faulkner has written over 50 articles and book chapters for such periodicals as “North Carolina Historical Review,” “The Historian,” “Tennesee Historical Quarterly” and “Polity,” to name a few. He has also written entries for the “Dictionary of North Carolina Biography and authored a book titled “Jesse Helms and the Legacy of Nathaniel Macon.”Faulkner graduated summa cum laude from Campbell College with a Bachelor of Science in history. He received a master’s degree in history from East Carolina University and a Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of South Carolina.Faulkner is a faculty affiliate of the John Locke Foundation in Raleigh, N.C., a member of the North Carolina Library Association, the Southeastern Library Association, the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association, to name a few. He currently serves on the Library Services and Technology Act Advisory Committee for the State Library of North Carolina which reviews applications and makes recommendations for federal grants totaling over $3 million a year. In addition, he is the immediate past chairman of the Rotary District 7710 Scholarship Committee which selects Ambassadorial Scholars for study abroad.
Faulkner publishes articles in national journals