Speaker: Scott Ellsworth at Winter Michigania, Ring in the New Year, 2011-12

An award-winning teacher, Dr. Scott Ellsworth teaches courses on the history and literature of the American South, race relations, and nonviolent social movements in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, as well as in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Center for International and Comparative Studies. Formerly a historian at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C., his work has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, National Public Radio, and PBS’s The American Experience. The author of Death in a Promised Land, a groundbreaking history of the devastating 1921 Tulsa race riot, he has written about American history and culture for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. Now a three-year veteran of Summer Michigania, Scott has also begun to serve as a faculty lecturer on True Blue Travel trips for the Alumni Association, including a journey to Rome last spring. Accompanying him at Winter Michigania will be his wife, Betsy, and their nine-year-old twin sons, Will and Johnny.