On September 10, 2026, join the Georgia Historical Society as author and historian Alan Taylor is inducted as the 2026 Vincent J. Dooley Distinguished Teaching Fellow. Following the induction, enjoy a lively discussion with Dr. Taylor about his groundbreaking scholarly work and publications. The program will take place in Savannah, with the time and location to be announced shortly.
Dooley Distinguished Teaching Fellows are national leaders in the field of history as both writers and educators whose research has enhanced or changed the way the public understands the past. Previous inductees include Steve Oney, Prize-winning journalist and historian, Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian, Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, and David W. Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University.
About Alan Taylor
Alan Taylor is an American historian and scholar who, most recently, was the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. A specialist in the early history of the United States, Taylor has written extensively about the colonial history of the United States, the American Revolution, and the early American Republic. Taylor has received two Pulitzer Prizes and the Bancroft Prize, and was also a finalist for the National Book Award for non-fiction. In 2020 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.