Robert Davis, M.Ed., M.A., director, Family & Regional History Program, Wallace State College, Hanceville

Robert Scott "Bob" Davis is director of the Family and Regional History Program at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville. His program pioneers local and family history research in a college environment. The American Association for State and Local History gave his program the Outstanding Leadership in History Award of Merit for 2006. Davis holds a Master of Education degree in history from North Georgia College and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has more than 1,000 publications on record, and research includes a number of books and more than 100 articles and reviews in professional historical, library, educational and archival journals. He has been quoted in or by Time, Smithsonian, CNN, NBC and the Wall Street Journal. In Alabama and Georgia, Davis has worked to raise public awareness on saving local government records and has been a member of the Alabama governor's historical records commission. He has been the guest speaker at hundreds of meetings of civic, genealogical and historical organizations.

Presentations by Robert Davis
Writing a Local, Personal or Family History