Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center
Tracy Campbell, Co-Director
Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center
103B Margaret I. King Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0039
Telephone: (859) 257-2332
Fax: (859) 257-6311
E-mail: tracamp@uky.edu
Terry Birdwhistell, Co-Director
Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center
103A Margaret I. King Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0039
Telephone: (895) 257-1466
Fax: (859) 257-6311
E-mail: tlbird@uky.edu
Esther Edwards
Administrative Support
Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center
103 Margaret I. King Building
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky 40506-0039
Telephone: (859) 257-1742
Fax: (859) 257-6311
E-mail: eedwards@uky.edu
Biographical Information
Tracy Campbell, Professor of History and Co-Director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center.
Dr. Campbell specializes in U.S. social and political history. He is the author of three books: The Politics of Despair: Power and Resistance in the Tobacco Wars (Univ. Press of Ky., 1993); Short of the Glory: The Fall and Redemption of Edward F. Prichard, Jr. (Univ. Press of Ky., 1998), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; and Deliver the Vote: A History of American Election Fraud, an American Political Tradition--1742-2004, (Carroll and Graf, 2005). He has also written a textbook for elementary school students in Kentucky history. In addition to survey courses and undergraduate courses in recent U.S. history, he teaches graduate courses in 20th century U.S. readings and research methods. He is currently writing a biography of the St. Louis Gateway Arch.
Terry Birdwhistell, Associate Dean of Special Collections and Digital Programs and Co- Director of the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center.
Dr. Birdwhistell was Director of what is now the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History from 1974 to 2005. He also served for sixteen years as University Archivist. He is Co-General Editor of "Kentucky Remembered," an oral history series published by the University Press of Kentucky. Dr. Birdwhistell is a past president of the national Oral History Association.