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Cullom Davis - Higher Education

Dr. George Cullom Davis began his academic career as an assistant professor of history at Indiana University in 1964. In 1970, he moved to Springfield, IL, where he taught and served as an assistant to the president of the newly formed Sangamon State University. He was responsible for establishing the university's Oral History office. He quickly developed a national reputation in the oral history community, and served as president of the Oral History Association from 1983-1984.

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Feature Excerpt

School Colors

Interview Session 02 (Audio)

Davis’s involvement with the creation of Sangamon State U. in 1970

Interview Session 03 (Audio)

Cullom Davis’s career as Director of the Oral History Office at SSU

Related Materials

See Also

His full interview in Historians Speak


Photos

Caption:
Cullom Davis at a 1968 Orientation in Illinois.

Where:
Illinois

When:
1968

Ownership:
Narrator’s Photo



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