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Greg Taylor

Dr. Gregory Taylor

Distinguished Professor of History

Email: taylog@chowan.edu
Phone: 252-398-6357

My current research focuses on the International Labor Defense. From 1925 through 1956, this group of lawyers represented members of the Communist Party of the United States of America and any other defendants the party supported. They made a name for themselves defending people like the Scottsboro Boys, Sacco and Vanzetti, Tom Mooney, and the Wobblies, as well as for their work in the 1940s and 1950s defending party leaders who fell afoul of the ever-growing number of anti-Communist laws passed amid the Second Red Scare.

Education

  • PhD, History, University of Mississippi
  • MA, History, University of Alabama
  • BA, History, Clemson University

Academic & Scholarly Achievements

  • 2021 McDowell Columns Scholar Prize 
  • 2014 Excellence in Teaching Award
  • 2011 McDowell Columns Scholar Prize
  • 2008 Alpha Chi Teacher of the Year
Google Scholar
  • North Carolina History
  • The New South
  • The Depression and New Deal
  • Blues in American History
  • America in the 1960s
  • Introduction to Historical Investigation

Central Prison: A History of North Carolina’s State Penitentiary. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2021.
Winner, 2021 Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction

 James Larkin Pearson: A Biography of North Carolina’s Longest-Serving Poet Laureate. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015.

 The Life and Lies of Paul Crouch: Communist, Opportunist, Cold War Snitch. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2014.

 The History of the North Carolina Communist Party. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2009.

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