Wayne Flynt

Historian/Author

James Wayne Flynt (born October 4, 1940) is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Auburn University.  He has won numerous teaching awards and been a Distinguished University Professorfor many years.  His research focuses on Southern culture, Alabama  politics, Southern religion, education reform, and poverty.  Flynt received his BA degree from Howard College (shortly before its reorganization as Samford University) in 1961 before taking his Masters of Science (1962) and Ph.D.  (1965) from Florida State University.   After teaching at Samford for 12 years, he joined the faculty at Auburn University in 1977, where he remained until his retirement in 2005.

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