J. David Macey, Ph.D.
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- Dean, College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
- Professor, Department of English and Modern Languages
Contact Information
Rarick Hall 101A
600 Park Street
Hays, KS 67601-4099
785-628-5806
jdmacey@fhsu.edu
Education
- Ph.D., English Literature, Vanderbilt University, 1998
- M.A., English Literature, Vanderbilt University, 1995
- A.M., Literatures and Cultures in English, Brown University, 1994
- A.B., English Language and Literature, Yale University, 1988
J. David Macey serves as dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Fort Hays State University, where he also holds an appointment as professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages.
Dr. Macey has served as a faculty member, department chair, assistant vice president, and interim dean at the University of Central Oklahoma (1999-2001, 2004-2023) and as a faculty member at the University of Puget Sound (2001-2004). His areas of scholarship and research include Anglo-Saxon language and literature, Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature, African American literature, literary and critical theory, and the history of the English language.
Dr. Macey is the co-editor, with Hans Ostrom, of the Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature (Greenwood Press, 2005) and African American Literature: An Encyclopedia for Students (ABC-CLIO, 2019) and is the co-author, with Dr. Ostrom, of Forgotten African American Firsts: An Encyclopedia of Pioneering History (ABC-CLIO, 2023).
Dr. Macey has published articles and presented papers on topics including Restoration and eighteenth-century Utopian fiction, the adaptation of ancient narratives in Renaissance poetry, and transformative teaching and learning practices in the college classroom.
Dr. Macey has served in leadership roles with the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice, Cimarron Alliance (now Freedom Oklahoma), Interweave Continental, the Diversity Center of Oklahoma, and Hays Pride. He is a recipient of the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice’s Oklahoma City Humanitarian Award, Cimarron Alliance’s Torch Award, and the University of Central Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts’ Lifetime Achievement Award.