Melvin Patrick Ely

Melvin Patrick Ely (born 1952 in Richmond) is an American historian.

Life

The family name rhymes with really.[1] He grew up in Richmond and graduated from Princeton University, and from the University of Texas at Austin with a master's degree in linguistics, and from Princeton University with a master's degree in history in 1982 and with a doctoral degree in 1985.[2] He taught at Yale University, and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is currently the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Humanities at the College of William and Mary.[3]

Awards

Works

  • Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War. Random House, Inc. 2005. ISBN 978-0-679-76872-2.
  • The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon. Free Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-02-909503-4.
  • Amotz Zahavi, Avishag Zahavi, Melvin Patrick Ely (1999). The Handicap Principle: a missing piece of Darwin's puzzle. Illustrator Amir Balaban. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512914-4.
  • Amos 'n' Andy: lineage, life, and legacy, Princeton University, 1985

References

  1. ↑ http://mpelyx.people.wm.edu/
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-23. Retrieved 2009-12-25.
  3. ↑ http://mpelyx.people.wm.edu/
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