The Honors College

Louis Gallien was the Dean of the Reich College of Education previously to his teaching in the Honors College. As a professor in interdisciplinary studies at previous institutions, he taught in the Honors Programs at Millsaps and Spelman Colleges. He has taught on both undergraduate, master and doctoral levels since 1992. His major research efforts have centered on African American culture, history, religion, sociology, pedagogy and issues centered on Civil rights. He was awarded six major fellowships: Pew Fellow (Wheaton College), Wye Fellow (Aspen Institute), and Rackham Fellow (University of Michigan, NEH Fellow (Haverford College), Mellon Fellow (Salzburg Seminar) and the Georgia Governor’s Teaching Fellow (University of Georgia) He is the co-author of two books on African American pedagogy on a higher education level from Allyn and Bacon and Teachers College Presses in 2004 and 2006 respectively. He has won three teaching awards with one being at the University level. He holds a distinguished service award from Spelman College where he served as Clerk of Faculty. He is presently working on two manuscripts: one with fellow Reich College colleague, P.J. Nelsen on The Demise of Public Education and the Diminution of American Democracy and another one titled: A Precarious Future: The Demise of Exclusive Colleges in America. His latest publications have been two chapters in books by New York University Press, Afropentecostalism (Crossing over Jordan: Navigating the Music of Heavenly Bliss and Earthly Desire in the careers of Cross Artists in the 20th Century and; from Wiley-Blackwell Press in Oxford, England, W-B Handbook on Religion. (The Double Conscious Nature of American Evangelicalism on Civil Rights during the Progressive Era) He is presently on the University Humanities Council, Doctoral Policy Program Committee, Williams Thesis Award Committee, and Chancellor’s Scholarship Committee at ASU. He has taught an Honors Course last fall titled: Slavery and American Capitalism. At present he is teaching two seminar courses on: The roles and representations of Southern women in Novels by 20th century southern women authors. And, The American Civil Rights Movement of African American, Women and LBGT groups.