Eric Hairston
Eric Hairston (Grad ’04)
Eric “Ashley” Hairston (Grad ’94, ’04) was named associate dean for the Office of Academic Advising and university associate professor at Wake Forest University, starting July 1, 2019. Author of The Ebony Column: Classics, Civilization, and the African American Reclamation of the West, Hairston was a 2015 Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellow. He most recently served as associate professor of English and of law and humanities and director of the Center for Law and Humanities at Elon University.
Eric Hairston (Grad ’04)
Eric Hairston (Grad ’04) published The Ebony Column with the University of Tennessee Press. The book explores how the myths, cultures and ideals of antiquity influenced intellectual figures such as Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass and W.E.B. Du Bois and helped African Americans reconceptualize their role in a Euro-American world. The Ebony Column is the first book in a series about classicism in American culture. Mr. Hairston is an associate professor of English, law and humanities at Elon University.