{"id":700,"date":"2015-10-26T12:47:59","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T19:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=700"},"modified":"2016-09-12T13:47:43","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T20:47:43","slug":"badger-rodney-reid-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"BADGER, RODNEY REID, 1942-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University professor of American Studies. Born&#8211; July 31, 1942, Salt Lake City, Utah. Parents&#8211; Rodney Jenkins and Phyllis (Snow) Badger. Married&#8211; Lee Wilson, June 10, 1965. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; U.S. Naval Academy, B.S, 1964; U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 1968-1970; Syracuse University, M.S., 1974, Ph.D., 1975. Served in the U.S. Navy, 1964-1970; instructor in naval communications at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif., 1968-1970. Joined faculty of the University of Alabama in 1974; served as an associate professor of American Studies; director of the American Studies program; assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Member American Studies Association; American Historical\u00a0Association; Southeastern American Studies Association. \u00a0Rockefeller Foundation grant, 1978-1980.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Great American Fair; the World&#8217;s Columbian Exposition and American Culture. Chicago; Nelson-Hall, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>A Life in Ragtime: A Biography of James Reese Europe.\u00a0 Oxford University Press, 1995.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alabama and the Borderlands; from Prehistory to Statehood. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1985.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University professor of American Studies. Born&#8211; July 31, 1942, Salt Lake City, Utah. Parents&#8211; Rodney Jenkins and Phyllis (Snow) Badger. Married&#8211; Lee Wilson, June 10, 1965. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; U.S. Naval Academy, B.S, 1964; U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, 1968-1970; Syracuse University, M.S., 1974, Ph.D., 1975. Served in the U.S. Navy, 1964-1970; instructor in naval [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","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=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5818,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}