Cullen B. Gosnell

Cullen Bryant Gosnell was born on December 14, 1893 near Spartanburg, South Carolina.[1] He graduated from Wofford College with a bachelor's degree in 1916.[1] He went on to receive a master's degree from Vanderbilt University in 1920 and a PhD from Princeton University in 1928.[1]

Gosnell taught at Wake Forest College and Furman University from 1920 to 1927.[1] He founded the Institute of Politics at Furman University in 1924.[1] Five years later, in 1929, he co-founded the Southern Political Science Association and served as its first President.[1][2] He was re-elected as its President in 1933.[1] He also served as Vice-President of the American Political Science Association.[1] Additionally, he was the Vice-President of Pi Sigma Alpha, a political science honor society.[1]

Meanwhile, Gosnell joined Emory University in 1927.[1] Two years later, he founded the Institute of Citizenship at Emory.[1] By 1933, he founded the Department of Political Science at Emory University.[1] Gosnell served as its Chair until 1951.[1] In 1941, he co-authored a textbook entitled Democracy in America with William M. Muthard and Stanley M. Hastings.[3] A few years later, in 1945, he took a leave of absence from Emory to teach G.I.s in Shrivenham, England.[4]

Gosnell was an advisor on the revision of the Georgia Constitution in 1944.[1] Additionally, he served on the Georgia Agricultural and Development Board,[1] established by Governor Ellis Arnall.[5]

Gosnell was married and a Christian.[1]

Gosnell died in 1964.[1]