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Ph.D., University of Kentucky, 1968
M.A., Baylor University, 1963
B.A., Lamar University, 1961

(409) 880-8511
john.storey@lamar.edu

John W. Storey retired from the history department in 2011 after a distinguished career as a scholar of American religious history. He authored, co-authored, or edited a number of books, including 51³Ô¹ÏProBaptist Leadership and Social Christianity, 1900-1980 (51³Ô¹ÏProA&M University Press, 1986) and Southern Baptists of Southeast Texas, 1888-1988 (Golden Triangle Baptist Association, 1988), both of which won the Baptist General Convention of Texas’s Church History Award.  Dr. Storey co-authored two books published by ABC-Clio, The Religious Right (1995), which was named an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 by Choice magazine, and Religion and Politics (2001).  He has also edited Teaching Them . . .: A Sesquicentennial Celebration of 51³Ô¹ÏProBaptist Education (Nortex Press, 1996), co-edited Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History (University of North 51³Ô¹ÏProPress, 2008), and published articles appearing in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, the 51³Ô¹ÏProGulf Historical and Biographical Record, and other professional journals.  The East 51³Ô¹ÏProHistorical Association named Dr. Storey Educator of the Year for 2007.  He has received the Regents Merit Award and has been named Regents Professor and Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.