{"id":867,"date":"2012-10-22T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=867"},"modified":"2017-02-21T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T17:23:41","slug":"brownell-blaine-allison-1942","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"BROWNELL, BLAINE ALLISON, 1942-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; University professor; academic administrator. Born&#8211; November 12, 1942, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Blaine, Jr. and Annette (Holmes) Brownell. Married&#8211; Mardi Taylor, August 21, 1964. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Washington and Lee University, B.A., 1965; University of North Carolina, M.A., 1967, Ph.D., 1969. Assistant professor, Purdue University, 1969-1974; worked at University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1974-1990; served as professor and department head; Dean of the Graduate School (1978-84); Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences (1984-90). University of North Texas, Provost, 1990-1998; President of Ball State University, 2000-2004. Senior University advisor, University of South Florida, 2006-08. Member of the Birmingham Planning Commission and the Jefferson County Planning &amp; Zoning Commission. Member American Historical Association; Southern Historical Association; American Studies Association. Honors; Awarded senior fellowship from the Institute of Southern History at Johns Hopkins University, 1971.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bosses and Reformers. Boston; Houghton, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>The Urban Ethos in the South. Baton Rouge, La.; Louisiana State University Press, 1973.<\/p>\n<p>The Urban South in the Twentieth Century. St. Charles, Mo.; Forum Press, 1974.<\/p>\n<p>Using Microcomputers; a Guidebook. Newbury Park, California; Sage Publications, 1985.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Urban America; from Downtown to No Town. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1979.<\/p>\n<p>The Urban Nation, 1920-1980. New York; Hill &amp; Wang, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_editor_and_contributor; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The City in Southern History. Port Washington, N.Y.; Kennikat, 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; University professor; academic administrator. Born&#8211; November 12, 1942, Birmingham. Parents&#8211; Blaine, Jr. and Annette (Holmes) Brownell. Married&#8211; Mardi Taylor, August 21, 1964. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; Washington and Lee University, B.A., 1965; University of North Carolina, M.A., 1967, Ph.D., 1969. Assistant professor, Purdue University, 1969-1974; worked at University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1974-1990; served [&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-867","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\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6421,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/6421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}