Dr. Allen B. BallardDr. Ballard currently teaches history and African American studies at the University at Albany. Before coming to Albany he had a distinguished 25-year career teaching political science at the City College of New York. For 5 years he served as dean of the faculty. He has also taught at Boston University, Dartmouth College, and Cornell University. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Ohio's Kenyon College (1952) and holds a Ph.D. (1961) in government -- with a specialization in Soviet politics -- from Harvard University. While researching his dissertation at Moscow's Agricultural Academy he spent a month living on a farm with Raisa and Mikhail Gorbachev. His articles have appeared in both scholarly and popular periodicals. Among his publications are The Education of Black Folk (Harper and Row, 1973) and One More Day's Journey: The Story of a Family and a People (McGraw-Hill, 1984). In the late 1960s he helped devise an open admissions program at CCNY. There he served as dean for academic development and director of the program for minority students. He began teaching himself to write a novel in the mid-1980s. Ballard says he loves the revision process; a good thing since he admits to having revised Where I'm Bound a good fifteen times. And Dr. Ballard loves music. For additional information, visit the article on Dr. Ballard in the Kenyon College Alumni Bulletin 23, no. 1 at < http://www1.kenyon.edu/publications/bulletin/23_1/?article=books> and < http://allenballard.com/>. |