{"id":1764,"date":"2011-06-06T08:13:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1764"},"modified":"2016-05-10T13:51:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T20:51:28","slug":"mackin-cooper-richerson-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1764","title":{"rendered":"MACKIN, COOPER RICHERSON, 1933-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Literary scholar; university professor; university administrator. Born&#8211; April 26, 1933, Selma. Parents&#8211; Thomas R. and Muriel (Green) Mackin.\u00a0 Married&#8211; (1) Catherine Barragy, February 15, 1958 (deceased); Children&#8211; three; \u00a0(2) Mary Kathryn Ruetten, December 14, 1985.\u00a0 U. S. Army, 1953-55.\u00a0 Education&#8211;Troy State University, BA, 1956; Tulane, MA, 1958; Rice University, Ph. D., 1962.\u00a0Taught English at\u00a0Texas Southern University, 1958-1959; North Texas State University, 1962-1963; University of New Orleans, 1963-1970; dean, College of Liberal Arts, 1969-80; vice chancellor for academic affairs, acting chancellor, Chancellor, 1984-87.\u00a0 Member Milton Society of America, South Central Modern Language Association, National Conference of Christians and Jews. Member of Board of Directors, University of New Orleans Foundation. The University created in his honor the Cooper Mackin Medallion, presented\u00a0annually to a faculty member who makes an outstanding contribution to the mission of the University. \u00a0Awarded status of \u00a0Chancellor emeritus, 1987.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in America, 1982.<\/p>\n<p>Marquis Who&#8217;s Who online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>William Styron. Austin, Tex.; Steck-Vaughan, 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Literary scholar; university professor; university administrator. Born&#8211; April 26, 1933, Selma. Parents&#8211; Thomas R. and Muriel (Green) Mackin.\u00a0 Married&#8211; (1) Catherine Barragy, February 15, 1958 (deceased); Children&#8211; three; \u00a0(2) Mary Kathryn Ruetten, December 14, 1985.\u00a0 U. S. Army, 1953-55.\u00a0 Education&#8211;Troy State University, BA, 1956; Tulane, MA, 1958; Rice University, Ph. D., 1962.\u00a0Taught English at\u00a0Texas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5481,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions\/5481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}