Gregg L. Michel
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Gregg L. Michel, Associate Professor of History, received a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Dr. Michel's scholarly work focuses on movements for social change in post-World War II America, particularly in the 1960s South. He has published several articles and delivered numerous papers on this topic. His book, Struggle for a Better South: The Southern Student Organizing Committee, 1964-1969, examines the turbulent history of the leading progressive white student organizations in the 1960s South. His current project examines government surveillance of southern activists in the 1960s and 1970s. His expertise in such content areas as the history of the civil rights movement and post-World War II southern and African-American history have helped to expand the undergraduate and graduate programs, and the diverse methodologies he employs in his research allows him to expose his students to a wide range of historical approaches, including the use of oral testimony to access the attitudes and beliefs of ordinary people in the past.