Lecturer III, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
Chianti and the Italian Riviera
Formerly a historian at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., Scott is a writer, journalist, and historian who now happily teaches at the University of Michigan. A specialist in 20th century American history, his research—on subjects ranging from World War II and civil rights, to athletics and the history of advertising—has been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, National Public Radio, ABC News Nightline, PBS’s The American Experience, the BBC, and the History Channel. An award winning teacher, he also teaches classes in the Department of English and the Center for International Comparative Studies.
Scott has written for the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, and has contributed articles to the Travel Section of the Washington Post, including a first-hand account of a 500-mile solo bicycle trip which he took along the old Western Front battlefields of France and Belgium. An AAUM Alumni Travel Representative for last year’s True Blue Travel tour of Rome, he has also served as a faculty forum speaker at Camp Michigania.
A veteran traveler, Scott has conducted research in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, Argentina and Brazil, and has traveled widely in Europe, as well as in all fifty states. An experienced mountaineer, he is also an avid backpacker, amateur cook, guitar player, old movie aficionado, and, if he could somehow find more time, fly fisherman. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife Betsy, their ten-year-old twin sons, Johnny and Will, and their Pembroke Welsh Corgi.
