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Don H. Doyle (B. A. University of California, Davis, 1967; Ph. D., Northwestern, 1973) is the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and Director of ARENA, the Association for Research on Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Americas

Before coming the South Carolina he taught at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Rome, Italy; the University of Genoa, Italy; the University of Leeds, England; and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2008/9 he will be the visiting Douglas Southall Freeman Professor of History at the University of Richmond.

Professor Doyle teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses in U. S. history, including the introductory survey course, Faulkner and Southern History, and Nationalism in Comparative Perspective.

Among his publications are:

• The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825-1870 (1978)
• Nashville in the New South (1985)
• Nashville Since the 1920s (1985)
• New Men, New Cities, New South (1990)
• The South as an American Problem (1995) ed. with Larry Griffin
• Faulkner's County: the Historical Roots of Yoknapatawpha (2001)
• Nations Divided: America, Italy, and the Southern Question (2002)
• Nationalism in the New World (2006) ed. with Marco Antonio Pamplona
  

Professor Doyle's current research involves an interpretation of the foundations of America's national ideology from the Revolution through Reconstruction; the working title is The Cause of All Mankind, from Tom Paine's famous quote: "The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind."

As Director of ARENA he is also organizing a conference on "Secession as an International Phenomenon" to be held in Charleston, SC, December 6-8, 2007. A book of essays will follow. For more information on ARENA and the secession project, please click on the ARENA logo below.

Don H. Doyle