Perspectives on industrial modernization from the South: Technology, modernization, and social change - variations on a theme by Henry Grady Robert McMath
	Vice Provost and Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0325, USA
	e-mail: robert.mcmath@carnegie.gatech.edu
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Biographical sketch

Dr. McMath is Professor of History and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies and Academic Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, where he teaches courses in American Social History, the History of the American South, and the History of Industry and Labor. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1972 and has been a member of the Georgia Tech faculty since then. From 1990 to 1993 he served as Associate Dean of the Ivan Allen College. In 1996 he was Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Genova and lectured on American Political History at universities in Italy, France, and England.

McMath is the author or co-author of seven books and numerous articles, including American Populism: A Social History (1993): (With Arthur S. Link et al), The American People: A History (2nd ed., 1986); with Ronald Bayor et al.,) Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985 (1985); (with 0. V. Burton), Toward a New South? Studies in Post Civil War Southern Communities (1982); Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance (1975); "Variations on a Theme By Henry Grady: Technology, Modernization, and Social Change," in Joseph Dunn and Howard Preston, eds., The Future of the South: An Historical Perspective for the Twenty-first Century (1991); and "Populism in Two Countries: Agrarian Protest Protect in the Great Plains and Prairie Provinces," Agricultural History 68: (Fall, 1995).

McMath is listed in Contemporary Authors. Dictionary of American Scholars, and Who's Who in America (46th ed). At Georgia Tech he has received the George C. Griffin Award for Outstanding Teaching and the ANAK faculty service award. In 1989 he received the Governor's Award in the Humanities from the Georgia Humanities Council. In 1994-95 he was President of the Agricultural History Society.