Professor of history at the University of Mississippi, Dr. Eagles received his undergraduate degree from Presbyterian College in 1968, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been a member of the history faculty at the University of Mississippi, where he is a specialist in 20th Century U.S. history, since 1983.

Several of his books deal with the Civil Rights Movement, including the winner of the 1993 Lillian Smith Award in non-fiction, Outside Agitator: Jon Daniels and the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama published by University of North Carolina Press in 1993. His The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss will be published by the University of North Carolina Press in the spring of 2009.

Professor Eagles was presented with an honorary doctorate in humane letters by his alma mater during Presbyterian College's 119th commencement exercises on May 11, 2002. Professor Eagles will become the William F. Winter Professor of History at the start of the 2008-2009 academic year.

Professor Eagles
Office Hours:
Bishop 321
915-7733
eagles@olemiss.edu