Bertis English, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Alabama State University, is the first African American to earn a doctorate in history from Auburn University. He specializes in the history of the United States, especially the South and African Americans, and also holds a baccalaureate degree in English. English has studied abroad and has taught English and history courses at several colleges and universities in Alabama.

Presentations by Bertis English
Revisiting “Uncle Tom”: Booker T. Washington and the Politics of Race, Economics and Education in the South, 1881–1915

The “Wedding”: A Reconstruction of the Shared Economic, Educational, and Political Goals and Projects of Booker T. Washington and William E. B. Du Bois, 1894-1904