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Scotty Kirkland

Hometown: Cottonwood, Alabama Lives in: ,

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  • Email: scottyekirkland@gmail.com

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About Scotty Kirkland

Genres: Nonfiction

Available for: Readings, Workshops, School Programs, In Person, Remote

Bio: Scotty E. Kirkland is an award-winning writer and historian. He holds degrees in history and political science from Troy University Dothan and the University of South Alabama. His work on Alabama and the Modern South has received research and writing awards from the Gulf South Historical Association, the Alabama Historical Association, Alabama Folklife Association, and the Lillian E. Smith Center.
He is a frequent contributor to Alabama Heritage magazine and the author of “Retrospect,” a …Read More monthly history column in Business Alabama magazine. He is author of a forthcoming book on race and politics in twentieth-century Mobile, a project he has worked on for nearly fifteen years.
He currently serves as coordinator of exhibits, publications, and public programs at the Alabama Department of Archives and History and as chair of the historical marker committee of the Alabama Historical Association. A native of Houston County, Scotty lives with his wife and two children in Wetumpka.

Works: Books
* We the People: Alabama’s Defining Documents. Montgomery: Alabama Department of Archives & History, 2019.
* Ark of India: An Alabama Artist Explores Southern Asia. Mobile: Southern Market Press, a Publication of the History Museum of …Read More Mobile, 2014.
* Dothan & Houston County, Alabama: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. Montgomery, AL: Beers & Associates, LLC, 2011.
* Historic Photographs of Mobile, Alabama. Co-authored with Carol Ellis. Nashville: Turner Publishing Company, 2008.
Author of “Retrospect,” monthly history column published in Business Alabama Magazine.
Selected Articles
* “Eyewitness: Ethel Payne Reports from Alabama,” Alabama Heritage No. 139 (Winter 2021): 46-57
* “‘Make the Dirt Fly!’: Alabama and the Panama Canal,” Alabama Heritage, No. 132 (Spring 2019): 40-53
* “Freedom on Trial: NAACP v. Alabama,” Alabama Heritage, No. 121 (Summer 2016): 38-47
* “Mobile and the Boswell Amendment,” Alabama Review Volume 65, No. 3 (July 2012): 205-249

Awards:

Cauthen Fellow, Alabama Folklife Association, 2023 (with Jacqlyn Kirkland)

Writer-in-Service Award, Lillian E. Smith Center of Piedmont College, 2014

Milo B. Howard Award, Alabama Historical Association, 2014

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