Bertram
Wyatt-Brown
Email: bwyattbrown@verizon.net
Bertram Wyatt-Brown is the Richard J. Milbauer Professor
Emeritus at the University of Florida and Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins
University. His
academic degrees were gained at the University of the South (1963), King’s
College Cambridge (1957), and Johns Hopkins University (1963) where he earned
his PhD under the late C. Vann Woodward. He has taught at Colorado
State, University of Colorado, Case Western Reserve, University of Wisconsin,
University of Richmond, and William and Mary College. His fellowships
include: the Guggenheim Foundation; the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton;
the National Endowment for the Humanities; and the National Humanities Center
in North Carolina. He has served as president of three academic societies,
one of them being the Southern Historical Association. Author of ten
books, Dr. Wyatt-Brown was a history finalist for the American Book Award
and the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for his best-known work, Southern Honor:
Ethics and Behavior in the Old South. Also, he has published over
90 articles, forewords, and essays, and nearly 150 book reviews and essay
reviews. Occasionally he has appeared on television. He and his
wife Anne live in Baltimore, Maryland. They have two grandchildren,
Anders and Annika.
Center for Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies link.
History News Network feature on Professor Wyatt-Brown.
