Woods, Jeff 1970- (Jeffrey Randall Woods)

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Woods, Jeff 1970- (Jeffrey Randall Woods)

PERSONAL:

Born August 17, 1970, in Austin, TX; son of Randall (a professor of history) and Rhoda (an office manager) Woods; married Andrea Grimes (a lawyer), August 6, 1994; children: Cullen, Abigail. Education: University of Kansas, B.A.; University of Arkansas, M.A.; Ohio University, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Conway, AR. Office—WPN258, Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, AR 72801. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, associate professor of history, 2000—.

MEMBER:

Phi Beta Kappa.

WRITINGS:

Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anticommunism in the South, 1948-1968, Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge, LA), 2004.

Richard Russell, Southern Nationalism, and American Foreign Policy, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 2007.

SIDELIGHTS:

Jeff Woods told CA: "My father is a historian and prolific writer. He is my greatest influence. I worked hard, though, to try to develop my own voice. I write under the name Jeff Woods instead of my full name so there will be fewer possibilities that I'll be confused with my father. Nevertheless, like him, I write about the South, the Cold War, and contemporary political issues."

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