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Shepherd's John Stealey awarded title of Distinguished Professor of History ISSUED: 28 March 2006 Editor's Note: Click on the thumbnail below for a printable image.
Shepherdstown, WV--Dr. John E. Stealey III, professor of history at Shepherd University, has been awarded the title of Distinguished Professor of History. This award is in acknowledgement of his distinguished career as a faculty member at Shepherd University as well as recognition of his scholarly research and writing. Stealey is the second recipient of the Distinguished Professor award. A member of Shepherd's faculty since 1969, Stealey is a noted scholar in the areas of American economic history, the Southern Appalachian region, American legal history, black migration and educational development in the post-Civil War era, the post-Civil War border states and Reconstruction South, and the United States and Early Porfirian Mexico. Stealey's book manuscript titled "Porte Crayon's Mexico: David Hunter Strother's Diaries in the Early Porfirian Era, 1879-1885" will be published by Kent State University Press later this year. He is in the final stages of completing a book-length manuscript titled "To Perfect West Virginia's Confederate Counter Revolution: The Constitutional Convention of 1872," an investigation of the West Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1872. Stealey is the author of two books, "Kanawhan Prelude to Nineteenth-Century Monopoly in the United States: The Virginia Salt Combinations," published in 2000, and "The Antebellum Kanawha Salt Business and Western Markets," published in 1993. Stealey served as the editor of the "Magazine of the Jefferson County Historical Society" for 24 years and served as the Society's president from 1980 to 2000. A prolific writer, Stealey has written essays, magazine and journal articles, encyclopedia articles, book introductions, and book reviews. Stealey earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from West Virginia University. He has received research awards from the West Virginia University Libraries, West Virginia Humanities Council, the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. A member of the visiting committee for the West Virginia University Libraries, Stealey served as the committee chair from 1984 to 2001. He is a member of the Agricultural History Society, American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association (life member), and Virginia Historical Society. -30-OWENS |
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