Fred A. Bailey joined the Department of History in 1984 and currently serves as chair. His tenure includes a year's academic leave (1993-94) to teach in The Johns Hopkins University - Nanjing University Center for the Study of Chinese and American Culture, Nanjing, Peoples Republic of China. Bailey's field of specialty is American social and intellectual history with an emphasis on the American South.
The Author of two books--Class and Tennessee's Confederate Generation (1987) and William Edward Dodd: The South's Yeoman Scholar (1997), Bailey's current project is book-length manuscript entitled The Southern Quest for a Suitable Past: Historiography and Social Control, 1890-2000. In addition he has written more than 40 articles for journals, anthologies, and academic reference books and presented over thirty papers at professional conferences.
Among his recognitions is the Tennessee History Book Award (1988), The A. Elizabeth Taylor Award for the Outstanding Article on Southern Women (1994) presented by the Southern Association of Women's Historians and recognition for the outstanding articles in the West Tennessee Historical Society Papers (1982), Tennessee Historical Quarterly (1986), The Georgia Historical Quarterly (1991), and The Southwestern Historical Quarterly (1994).
Bailey brings to the Department of History experiences from a number of different occupations, one of which was brief employment as a butcher.
Fred Bailey is also listed with the Gale Literary
