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Dr. Blake Scott Ball
Dr. Blake Scott Ball joined the Huntingdon faculty in the fall of 2017 after completing his doctoral degree. He has previously taught as an assistant professor at Miles College, as an adjunct professor at the University of North Alabama, and as an adjunct professor at the University of Alabama. He served as assistant director for the New Summersell Center Public History Initiative at the University of Alabama, and as a graduate assistant for the Alabama Historical Association. An avid writer, he served as editor for the Southern Historian graduate history journal and as a contributor and assistant editor for The Historian behind the History, a collection of oral stories documenting historians’ graduate training and insights into the historical profession, published by the University of Alabama Press in 2014.
“‘Snoopy is the Hero in Vietnam’: Ambivalence, Empathy, and Peanuts’ Vietnam War,” The Sixties 9.2, (June 2016).
Contributing Author and Assistant Editor, The Historian behind the History: Conversations with Southern Historians (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014).
Review of Adam Rome, The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation (2013), The Sixties vol. 7, no. 1, (Spring 2015): 184-186.
“Fighting History to Make a Dime,” Guest Column on AL.com, February 26, 2016.
“Good Grief: A Message from Charlie Brown to Charlie Hebdo,” Op-Ed piece for Birmingham News, January 21, 2015.
Review of Alison Graham and Sharon Monteith, eds., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 18: Media (2011), The Alabama Review vol. 65, no. 2, (April 2014): 205-206.
Review of Charles W. Eagles, The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss (2009), Southern Historian 32, (Spring 2011): 139-140.
Review of James J. Lorence, The Unemployed People’s Movement: Leftists, Liberals, and Labor in Georgia, 1929-1941 (2009), Southern Historian 31, (Spring 2010): 128-129.
“We Prayed in School Today: Charles Schulz’s Peanuts as a Text for Studying the Political Culture of the 1960s.” Paper presented at the Alabama Historical Association meeting, April 2017.
“Every Girl Her Own Wonder Woman: The Struggle to Reach and Empower Girls through Comics in the 1980s.” Paper presented at the Michigan State University Comics Forum, February 2017.
“‘Charlie Brown Clears the Air’: Peanuts and the Rise of Environmentalism in an Age of Limits”. Paper presented as part of a “Sixty-Fifth Anniversary Celebration of Peanuts in American Culture” at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual meeting in New Orleans, April 2015.
“I Have a Vision, Charlie Brown: Peanuts and the Feminist Appeal in Postwar American Culture”. Paper presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association annual meeting in New Orleans, April 2015.
“Peanuts, Capitalist Discontent, and the Emergence of an Environmental Movement, 1950-1980”. Poster presented at the American Society for Environmental History annual meeting in Washington, D.C., April 2015.
“‘Curse This Stupid War!’: Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts and the Vietnam War Era”. Paper presented at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., January 2014.
“A Boy Named Charlie Brown: Comic Strips, Conversations, and American Culture”. Poster presented at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting in New Orleans, January 2013.
“White Flight Pioneers: Race, Class, and Image in Mountain Brook, AL, 1940-1955”. Given at the “Power and Struggle” Graduate History Conference, The University of Alabama, March 2012.
Huntingdon College is a college of the United Methodist Church.
Huntingdon College is committed to a policy against legally impermissible, arbitrary, or unreasonable discriminatory practices. Therefore, Huntingdon College, in accordance with Title IX and Section 106.8 of the 2020 Final Rule under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, other applicable federal and state law, and stated College policy, prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. Furthermore, Huntingdon College, in accordance with applicable federal and state law and stated College policy, prohibits discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived gender, gender identity, race, color, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age and/or national origin in its education program or activity, including admission and employment.
Huntingdon College also prohibits retaliation against any person opposing discrimination or participating in any discrimination investigation or complaint process internal or external to the institution. Sexual harassment, sexual assault, dating and domestic violence, and stalking are forms of sex discrimination, which are prohibited under Title IX by policy.
Any person may report discrimination (whether or not the person reporting is the person alleged to have experienced the conduct), and may do so in person, by mail, by telephone or by email using the contact information below.
Inquiries and/or complaints that are not related to disability discrimination can be addressed to:
Huntingdon College Title IX Coordinator
Eric A. Kidwell
Library
1500 East Fairview Ave.
Montgomery, AL 36106
TitleIXCoordinator@hawks.huntingdon.edu
334-833-4420* (This number is for discrimination-based reporting.)
Huntingdon’s full policy and process, including an online reporting form, may be found at: https://www.huntingdon.edu/misconduct
Inquiries and/or complaints may also be addressed to (though it is advised the College’s process be first utilized):
Assistant Secretary
Office for Civil Rights (OCR)
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20202-1100
Customer Service Hotline #: (800) 421-3481
Facsimile: (202) 453-6012
TDD#: (877) 521-2172
Email: OCR@ed.gov
Web: http://www.ed.gov/ocr
Disability Services
Within any resolution process related to this policy, Huntingdon College provides reasonable accommodations to persons with disabilities when that accommodation is consistent with federal law. For disability-related inquiries or complaints:
Huntingdon College Director of Disability Services/ 504 Coordinator
Dr. Lisa O. Dorman
1500 East Fairview Ave.
Montgomery, AL 36106
ldorman@hawks.huntingdon.edu
334-833-4465 (This number is for requesting disability accommodations.)