Professor Emeritus

Research and Teaching Fields: Latin America, the Spanish borderlands, the Caribbean

Education:

• B.A. (cum laude), Florida State University, 1952
• M.A., University of Florida, 1953
• Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1959

UAB Service, 1970-1981

• 1963-1971: Chair, Department of History (founding chair of department)

Select Publications

• Gayosso: The Life of a Spanish Governor in the Mississippi Valley. Peter Smith, 1968.
• Vidal and Zoning in Spanish New Orleans. Louisiana Historical Association, 1973.
• “Researching the Spanish Borderlands: Alabama,” Latin American Research Review, 1972.
• “Benjamin Hawkins and US Attempts to Teach Farming to Southeastern Indians,” Agricultural History, 1986.

Select Grants and Fellowships

• American Philosophical Society, 1961, 1966.
• Fulbright Senior Research Grant, Spain, 1961, 1962.
• Director, The Louisiana Collection Series of Books and Documents on Colonial Louisiana, 1965-1990.

Select Honors

• Phi Beta Kappa
• Phi Alpha Theta
• Award of Merit, American Association of State and Local History, 1978
• Knighted by King Juan Carlos I of Spain (Caballero in the Order of Isabel La Catolica, 1979