From chalkboards to the silver screen: Purdue professor s teaching extends beyond the classroom
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Randy Roberts, professor of history at Purdue, has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. (Purdue University photo/Rebecca McElhoe)
Randy Roberts announced as finalist for Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Author of more than 20 nonfiction books, consultant or on-screen expert for more than 50 documentaries and professor for more than 30 years, it would be difficult to underestimate the number of people who have learned something from Randy Roberts, 150th Anniversary Professor and Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University. This historian’s commitment to teaching has been recognized for one of th
Randy W. Roberts earned his B.A.,
magna cum laude, from Mansfield University in 1972, his M.A. from University of Nebraska (Omaha) in 1973 and his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1978. He has been at Purdue University since 1988 and currently serves as both 150th Anniversary Professor and Distinguished Professor of History. In 2015-2016 he held the Charles Boal Ewing Chair in Military History at USMA, West Point. He is the winner of several national book awards and is a four-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for his books on Jack Dempsey, Jack Johnson, John Wayne and Joe Louis.