University of Kentucky Journal of Undergraduate Scholarship

   Editorial Board Member

Daniel Rowland, Director, Gaines Center for the Humanities (History)

1735 Patterson Office Tower 0027
Gaines Center for the Humanities 2 0344
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hisdan@uky.edu

Professor Daniel B. Rowland, an alumnus of Yale and Oxford universities
and a University of Kentucky history professor since 1974, is the
director of the Gaines Center for the Humanities. Rowland is a past recipient
of the university's Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching and an expert
on Russian history. His activity in historic preservation in Lexington has
included chairing the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation committee
that encouraged UK to preserve the three Maxwell Street buildings that now
house the Gaines Center. In addition to his efforts to preserve the Maxwell
Street buildings, Rowland's involvement in the Gaines Center prior to being
named Director included interviewing candidates for the Gaines Fellowships,
serving on the center's advisory committee and encouraging his best history
students to apply for the program.