Mark Newman is reader in history at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of the prize-winning Getting Right with God: Southern Baptists and Desegregation, 1945-1995 and Desegregating Dixie: The Catholic Church in the South and Desegregation, 1945-1992, as well as over twenty-five articles and essays.
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