| William G. Thomas, III |
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Director Will Thomas is the Director of the Virginia Center for Digital History and Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He teaches the history of the United States since 1865 survey course as well as modern Virginia history and thesis seminars for history majors. He is the author of Lawyering for the Railroad: Business, Law, and Power in the New South, published in the fall of 1999 by Louisiana State University Press. He is the co-author and assistant producer of a history of Virginia series for public television, called The Ground Beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War. Episode Three, Massive Resistance, was an Emmy Nominee for 2000 from the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Thomas is currently co-authoring with Edward L. Ayers a fully electronic scholarly article for publication in the American Historical Review, titled "Two American Communities on the Eve of Civil War: An Experiment in Form and Analysis." The article is based on their research in the award-winning Valley of the Shadow project. Ayers, Thomas, and Anne S. Rubin shared the Lincoln Prize in 2001 from the Civil War Institute at Gettysbug College in recognition of the project's scholarly significance. Thomas currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Protestant
Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia. He is a graduate of
Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, and Trinity College
(Ct.). He earned his Masters and Ph.D. in History from the University
of Virginia. He lives in Barboursville, Virginia, with his wife
Heather with their three children--Sarah, Guy, and Jane. |
