RALPH D. GRAY - EMERITUS
Professor Emeritus of History; Adjunct Professor of American Studies. B.A. Hanover College 1955, M.A. University of Delaware 1958, Ph.D. University of Illinois 1962. Editor, Journal of the Early Republic, 1980-1994.
Teaching and research interests: American history, early nineteenth century; transportation history; Indiana history.
Major publications: The National Waterway: A History of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (University of Illinois Press, 1967, 2nd edition 1989); Stellite: A History of the Haynes Stellite Company, 1912-1972 (Kokomo, Ind.: Cabot Corporation, 1974); editor, Gentlemen from Indiana: National Party Candidates, 1840-1940 (Indiana Historical Bureau, 1977); Alloys and Automobiles: The Life of Elwood Haynes Indiana Historical Society, 1979); editor, The Hoosier State: Readings in Indiana History (2 vols., Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1980); Indiana's Favorite Sons, 1836-1940 (Indiana Historical Society, 1988). Co-editor, with Michael A. Morrison, New Perspectives on the Early Republic: Essays from the Journal of the Early Republic, 1981-1991 (1994), and editor, Indiana History: A Book of Readings (1994); IUPUI: The Making of an Urban University (Bloomington and Indianapolis, IU Press 2003)
Awards: Fulbright Scholar to the United Kingdom, 1955; Dickerson Prize, University of Illinois, 1967; Distinguished Faculty Award, School of Liberal Arts, 1978; Thomas McKean Cup, Antique Automobile Club of America, 1979. Currently preparing a history of IUPUI.