Missouri Professor Daniel Crews Delivers Glen Eaves Lecture

Dan Crews

Daniel A. Crews, a history professor at the University of Central Missouri, will deliver the Glen Eaves Lecture at Mississippi College on September 30.

The annual lecture series is named for Eaves, who served for 18 years as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at MC. Created in 1992, the series is presented by the Department of History and Political Science.

Crews, who received a doctorate in history at Auburn University, is responsible for teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on Imperial Spain, the Renaissance, modern Latin America, the history of Mexico, world civilization, and other subjects at Central Missouri. He’s worked at the Missouri school since 1987 and previously taught at Oklahoma Baptist University.

His Mississippi College lecture will begin at 7 p.m. at the Jean Pittman Williams Recital Hall. The program is free and the public is invited, says Ron Howard, vice president for academic affairs.

Touching on the culture, history and politics of Spain, the professor’s topic at MC will be “The Case of Juan de Valdes and Lazarillo de Tormes.”

Crews received his bachelor’s degree at the University of North Alabama, and a master’s at the University of Memphis, both in history. He’s addressed academic conferences around the United States, and in such countries as England, Spain, France and Brazil. The Missouri educator serves until 2012 as general secretary of the Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies.

Eaves arrived at MC to become dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1982. He came from Auburn University where Crews was one of his graduate students at the time in Alabama.

For more information on the Sept. 30 lecture, contact history and political science professor Tricia Nelson-Easley at 601.925.3812 or TNelson@mc.edu.