Douglass Sullivan-Gonzalez (born 1956) is a researcher, writer, and professor of

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history, particularly in the 19th century. He is the author of ''Piety, Power and Politics: Religion and National Formation in Guatemala, 1821-1871''. He co-edited, with Charles Reagan Wilson, ''The South and the Caribbean'' (

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, 2001).

Career

Sullivan-Gonzalez attended

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, where he earned a BA. He earned a Master of Divinity and Master of Theology from the

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. From 1984 to 1986, he taught church history and social ethics at the Nicaraguan baptist seminary in

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. He then attended the

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, where he earned a Phd in Latin American History. Sullivan-Gonzalez became an associate professor in the College of Liberal Arts at the

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in 1993. He was a visiting professor at

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from 1999 to 2000. In 2002, he was appointed interim dean of the Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College, later being promoted to the permanent position in 2003. He held this position until 2021. Under his tenure, the size of the Honors College student body quadrupled. A fundraiser was held in his name. He returned to the history department in 2021. He is also known as "DSG".

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External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sullivan-Gonzalez, Douglass Living people 20th-century Guatemalan historians Guatemalan male writers University of Mississippi faculty 1956 births 21st-century Guatemalan historians