Geneva Visiting Artist and Lecture Series

Dr. H. Paul Thompson, Jr.

Dr. H. Paul Thompson, Jr. is professor of history and dean of the College of Humanities and Sciences at North Greenville University. He has been an educator for 30 years. Originally from the New York City suburbs, he is a product of Christian education and is called to a career in Christian higher education. Dr. Thompson is a graduate of Oral Roberts University and Montclair State University, and earned his doctorate in American History at Emory University. His scholarship focuses on the temperance and prohibition movements, and he is the author of A Most Stirring and Significant Episode: Religion and the Rise and Fall of Prohibition in Black Atlanta, 1865-1887, among other shorter works. Dr. Thompson is a former high school teacher, former associate pastor, and serves on the boards of multiple non-profit organizations. He has been a guest on local television and radio shows in the Greenville, South Carolina area. He is happily married to his wife Carol and loves his three stepdaughters.

Dr. Thompson is this year's Constitution Day Speaker and his lecture is titled: The Constitution's Achilles Heel: God, Race and Ambiguity in the U.S. Constitution