{"id":2170,"date":"2016-03-23T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2170"},"modified":"2016-03-23T11:25:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T18:25:56","slug":"sims-george-e-1954","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2170","title":{"rendered":"SIMS, GEORGE E., 1954-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; professor of\u00a0history; college administrator. \u00a0Born&#8211; 1954 in Selma, Ala. Parents&#8211; Elwood and Sarah Sims. Married&#8211; Ellen Guice. Education&#8211; Samford University, B.A.; Emory University, M.A., Ph.D.\u00a0 Professor of history at Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, Texas, 1981-1986; professor and administrator\u00a0at Belmont College, 1986-2001; vice-president for academic affairs, Muskingum College, 2001-2005; Associate vice-president for academic affairs, Spring Hill College, 2005; named provost at Spring Hill, 2007.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dust jacket to The Little Man&#8217;s Big Friend; Wayland College catalog; Spring Hill website<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Little Man&#8217;s Big Friend; James E. Folsom in Alabama Politics, 1946-1958. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; professor of\u00a0history; college administrator. \u00a0Born&#8211; 1954 in Selma, Ala. Parents&#8211; Elwood and Sarah Sims. Married&#8211; Ellen Guice. Education&#8211; Samford University, B.A.; Emory University, M.A., Ph.D.\u00a0 Professor of history at Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, Texas, 1981-1986; professor and administrator\u00a0at Belmont College, 1986-2001; vice-president for academic affairs, Muskingum College, 2001-2005; Associate vice-president for academic affairs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-p-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5271,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2170\/revisions\/5271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}