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List Of People From Birmingham, Alabama
This is a list of individuals who are natives of, or are notable in association with, the city of Birmingham, Alabama. Academia * Monnie T. Cheves, Samford University professor; member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1952 to 1960; died in Birmingham in 1988 * Frank Moore Cross, religious scholar * Angela Davis, social activist and author * Richard Nelson Frye, scholar of Iran and Central Asia * Roland Frye, scholar * Carol Garrison, ex-president of University of Alabama at Birmingham * Zenkei Blanche Hartman, first abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center * Freeman Hrabowski III, educator * Herman H. Long, president of Talladega College and United Negro College Fund * J. Gordon Melton, religious scholar * Emil Wolfgang Menzel, Jr. Emeritus Professor in psychology * Edward Taub, behavioral neuroscientist and professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham * Julia Tutwiler, educator and social reformer Arts and literature * Allen Barra, journalist, sportswriter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Peters Bowron
Edgar "Pete" Peters Bowron (born May 27, 1943 in Birmingham) is an American art historian and curator. Bowron served a director of both the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Harvard Art Museums. He is a scholar of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian art, especially on the artist Pompeo Batoni. Career A native of Birmingham, Bowron was born to James Edgar Bowron and Dorothe Peters Lowles. Bowron graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines E ... in 1965, and then attended the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. There, he received both a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History in 1969 and 1979, respectively. Bowron wrote his doctoral dissertation was on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |