Key Named Chair of History Department at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock
Dr. Barclay Key, associate professor of history, has been named the new chair of the Department of History at 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock.
鈥溙切腣log传媒 Little Rock has a strong history department, and I am looking forward to leading this group of great faculty members who are dedicated to research, teaching, and service,鈥� Key said. 鈥淎s the new chair, I hope this will be an opportunity to grow our numbers and attract more students to the study of history.鈥�
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Department of History offers a bachelor鈥檚 degree in history, a bachelor鈥檚 degree in history/secondary education, a graduate program in public history, and minors in history, geography, and race and ethnicity.
Prior to joining 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock in 2012, he taught at Iowa State University and Western Illinois University. He is the recipient of two Fulbright awards, which gave him the opportunity to teach at Jan Kochanowski University in Poland and Universidad Veracruzana in Mexico.
At the start of his career, Key鈥檚 research investigated the intersections of race and religion in U.S. history. In 2020, he published a book with LSU Press titled 鈥淩ace and Restoration: Churches of Christ & the Black Freedom Struggle.鈥� Barclay is currently researching the history of school desegregation in the Little Rock School District during the 1960s and 1970s.
On Nov. 1, Barclay will lead an
Evenings with History program that features a screening and discussion of a 1979 episode of 鈥淎s We See it,鈥� which documented the perspectives of Black and white students on integration at Little Rock Central High School and provides fascinating glimpses into the successes and failures of school integration in the 1970s.
Key also volunteers with DecARcerate, the Central High Neighborhood, Inc., the Little Rock School District, and local political campaigns.
