William B. Scott was born and grew up in Charleston, South Carolina. He attended graduate school at Wake Forest University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Since 1973, he has taught history at Kenyon College. Scott is married to Donna Hurt Scott, with whom he has two daughters, Ansley K'02 and Laine K'06. The Scott's also raised their nephew Scott Allsbrook who graduated with a degree in mathematics from Kenyon in 1977. Scott teaches American history with interests in American intellectual, cultural, and Southern history, in which he has published half a dozen books. In 2010, with colleague Peter Rutkoff, he coauthored a cultural history of the twentieth-century African American migration entitled Fly Away. Scott's hobbies include furniture making and reading history and historical fiction.

Areas of Expertise

American intellectual, cultural, and Southern history

Education

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.A. Wake Forest University
B.A. Presbyterian College

Selected Publications

Fly Away: Four Paths of Culture in the Great Migration (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)

Fly Away: The Great African American Migrations, A Cultural History, with Peter Rutkoff (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)

America: Endless Quest , 2 vols. (Kendall/Hunt, 2003)

"The Great Migration in South Carolina," Encyclopedia of South Carolina History (University of South Carolina Press, 2003)

New York Between the World Wars, with Peter Rutkoff, Debra Bricker Balken, curator, Park Avenue Cubists (New York: New York University, Grey Art Gallery, 2001)

"Teaching to American History Survey," Internet Roundtable, Journal of American History, LXXXVII(2001), pp. 1409-1441

"The New York Renaissance," with Peter Rutkoff, Prospects, XXIV (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Courses Taught

HIST 101 U.S. History, 1492-1865
HIST 210 History of the South, 1607-Present
HIST 305 American Presidents (formerly HIST 105)
HIST 316 Jazz Age: 1900-1930
HIST 317 Gilded Age: 1877-1900
HIST 391 ST: Great Migration
HIST 400 American Revolution
HIST 426 Culture Clash in North America, 1492-1763