Merle Black

professor, politics and government, Emory

Merle Black, B.A. (1964), Harvard College; M.A.(1968), Ph.D.(1972), University of Chicago. Specialization: American politics, especially the politics of the modern South. His current research projects concern the rise of the Republican party in the South and the consequences for national politics, the changing electorate of the South, and the politics of the Deep South states.