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Gregg Ivers Professor Government

Degrees
Ph.D, Political Science, Emory University
M.A., Political Science, Emory University
B.A, Political Science and Journalism, University of Missouri

Bio
Gregg Ivers is Professor of Government in the School of Public Affairs at 小蓝视频. He is the author or editor of eight books, including To Build a Wall: American Jews and the Separation of Church and State, Creating Constitutional Change, Inside the Judicial Process, American Constitutional Law: Volumes I and II, and Constitutional Law: An Introduction, and numerous articles on constitutional law, civil rights and liberties, law and popular culture, the civil rights movement and other topics that meet at the intersection of law, politics and society. Professor Ivers is a past recipient of the School of Public Affairs Outstanding Teaching Award (1993), Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award (2005) and Faculty-Staff Collaboration Award (2018).

In 2024, Professor Ivers received the University Excellence in Teaching Award in a Full Time (Tenure) Appointment and the School of Public Affairs Outstanding Teacher Award win a Full-Time Tenure Appointment. In 2018, he was the recipient of the University Diversity and Inclusion Award.

From 2000-2020, Professor Ivers served as co-editor of the Constitutionalism and Democracy Series published by the University of Virginia Press. He currently serves on the Academic Advisory Board for The History Makers, the largest digital archive of African American Oral History in the world.

In June 2018, Professor Ivers launched the , serving as Director. The project documents the rise of civil rights activist, professor and public intellectual Julian Bond's rise to prominence from 1960-1968 and the broader Southern civil rights movement.

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See Also
SPA Department of Government
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • GOVT-415 Southern Civil Rights Movement

  • GOVT-455 Equal Protection

  • HNRS-050 Honors Supplement: Southern Civil Rights Movement

  • HNRS-050 Honors Supplement: Southern Civil Rights Movement

Spring 2025

  • GOVT-415 Southern Civil Rights Movement

  • GOVT-425 Jazz & Civil Rights Movement

  • GOVT-454 Athlete As Political Activist