BIOGRAPHY

Michael Martin, Assistant Professor of History (Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 2003). After two years of a strictly research-oriented existence, Dr. Michael Martin reacquainted himself with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s classrooms over the 2003-2004 school year, teaching at one time or another U. S. History to 1877, Louisiana History, Colonial and Revolutionary America, Recent America, and Applied Public History.

Martin's recent publications include Historic Lafayette (Under contract to Historical Publishing Network); “New Orleans Becomes a Big-League City: The NFL-AFL Merger and the Creation of the New Orleans Saints” in Horsehide, Pigskin, Oval Tracks, and Apple Pie:  Essays on Sports and American Culture, ed. Jim Vlasich (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006):  119-131; “’High Time We Put Behind Us the Blind Prejudice of the Past’:  Russell Long and Louisiana Politics, 1948-1952” Louisiana History 46 (Spring 2005):  133-153; Review of Christopher B. Strain, Pure Fire:  Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era (Athens, Ga.:  The University of Georgia Press, 2005);  “Political Peculiarities and Processes in the Pelican State,” review of Wayne Parent, Inside the Carnival:  Unmasking Louisiana Politics (Baton Rouge:  LSU Press, 2004).  H-Louisiana, 8 April 2005.

Martin was a participant in "Frontiers of American History"--a Teaching American History grant, 2006-2009. His paper “Russell Long and States’ Rights, 1948-1968” was accepted for presentation at the 2006 Louisiana Historical Association meeting. On January 6, 2006 he presented  “Nascent Neo-Con or New Deal Liberal:  Senator Russell B. Long of Louisiana” at the  Phi Alpha Theta Biennial National meeting, Philadelphia, Pa.; February 24, 2005:  “’Congress is Perhaps Better Off Without the Smell of This Sort of Proposed Legislation on its Hands’:  Russell Long and the Second Reconstruction,”  The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965:  A Conference, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, La. Forthcoming is “Russell Long:  A Political Life,” Lunchtime Lecture at the Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge.  Scheduled for April 5, 2006.