Klein assigned distinguished-chair post
SEARCY — Professor Kevin Klein has been named the first recipient of the Clifton L. Ganus Jr. Distinguished Chair of History and Political Science at Harding University in Searcy. The endowed chair was established in April to honor Ganus, chancellor emeritus of the university, who had turned 95.
Klein graduated from Harding in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in history and completed a master’s degree and a doctorate in history from
Florida State University. He began teaching at
Harding in 1994 and has taught world history, American history and European history. Klein was named chairman for the department of history and political science in 2003, a position which he held for 13 years. He was awarded the University’s
Teacher Achievement award in 2002 and 2010 and named an Alpha Chi Faculty Scholar in 2012.
As distinguished chair, Klein said he plans to implement more opportunities for educational excursions, produce a university-level text in American history and publish a history of Harding for the 100th anniversary of the school’s founding. He would also like to establish an educational conference for the development of scholarship and teaching in history, political science and public administration, with the objective of promoting the mission objectives of the university in the greater academic community.