Larry Eugene Rivers

Larry Eugene Rivers
President of Fort Valley State University
In office
2006–2013
Preceded byKofi Lomotey
Succeeded byIvelaw Griffith
Personal details
Born1950 (age 74–75)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
SpouseBetty Jean Hubbard
Children2
EducationFort Valley State University (BA), Villanova University (MA), Carnegie Mellon University (PhD), University of London (PhD)
OccupationAcademic administrator, former college president, historian, history professor, author

Larry Eugene Rivers (born 1950) is an American academic administrator, former college president, history professor, and author.[1] He served as President of Fort Valley State University.

Biography and education

Larry Eugene Rivers was born in 1950, in the Sharon Hill section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1][2] He is Baptist.[3]

He has a bachelor's degree from Fort Valley State University, and a master's degree from Villanova University. He received doctorate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of London.[4] His thesis for his doctorate from the University of London was "Florida's Dissenters, Rebels, and Runaways: Territorial Days to Emancipation" (2002).[5]

Rivers married Betty Jean Hubbard, who worked for the City of Tallahassee,[6] and has two sons.

Career

From 2002 until 2006, Rivers served as Dean of the college of arts and sciences at Florida A&M University,[7] where he was a colleague of Canter Brown Jr.

In 2006, Rivers became the president of his alma mater Fort Valley State University in Fort Valley, Georgia, following the departure of Kofi Lomotey. He held that role until 2013, and succeeded by Ivelaw Griffith.[8][9]

He was a history professor at Valdosta State University (VSU) in Valdosta, Georgia from 2013 to 2017.

Bibliography

  • Rivers, Larry Eugene; Brown Jr., Canter (2001). Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865–1895. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.[10][11]
  • Larry Eugene Rivers (2008). Slavery in Florida: Territorial Days to Emancipation. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-3381-5.[12]
  • The Varieties of Women's Experiences: Portraits of Southern Women in the Post-Civil War Century. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010. (with Canter Brown, co-ed.)
  • Mary Edwards Bryan : Her Early Life and Works University Press of Florida, 2016. (with Canter Brown Jr.)
  • Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th Century Florida. University of Illinois Press, 2017.[13][14][15]
  • Father James Page: An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.

References

  1. ^ a b "Rivers, Larry E. 1950– (Larry Eugene Rivers)". Encyclopedia.com.
  2. ^ "Larry Eugene Rivers". African American Literature Book Club.
  3. ^ "News Headlines - Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University 2010". www.famu.edu. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010.
  4. ^ "Black History Month: Dr. Larry Rivers". Florida State University Calendar.
  5. ^ Florida's Dissenters, Rebels, and Runaways : Territorial Days to Emancipation. OCLC 1124214831.
  6. ^ Cannon, Dymin (December 10, 2019). "Rivers making Tallahassee a better place for more than four decades".
  7. ^ McPhail, Ayanna (January 28, 2006). "Lomotey drops from job list". The Macon Telegraph. p. 10. Retrieved September 28, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "FVSU alums inducted into hall of fame". The Macon Telegraph. November 30, 2009. pp. A8. Retrieved September 28, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  9. ^ "New York provost chosen as new FVSU president". The Macon Telegraph. June 22, 2013. pp. A1. Retrieved September 28, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ Ferris, Charles (October 2002). "Larry E. Rivers, Canter Brown Jr. Laborers in the Vineyard of the Lord: The Beginnings of the AME Church in Florida, 1865-1895. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001. x + 244 pp. $34.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8130-1890-4. Reviewed by Charles Ferris (Department of History, University of Memphis)". H-Florida (book review).
  11. ^ Baldwin, Lewis V. (2005). "Canter Brown, Jr. and Larry E. Rivers. For a Great and Grand Purpose: The Beginnings of the AMEZ Church in Florida, 1864-1905. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2004. 252 pages. ISBN 0-8130-2778-0. Reviewed by Lewis V. Baldwin, for the Journal of Southern Religion". The Journal of Southern Religion (book review). ISSN 1094-5253.
  12. ^ "Take note of the important voices in Florida history". Tallahassee Democrat (book review). August 27, 2017. pp. D3. Retrieved September 28, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ Egerton, Douglas R. (2013). "Reviewed work: Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th Century Florida, Larry Eugene Rivers". The Florida Historical Quarterly. 91 (4): 587–589. JSTOR 43487534.
  14. ^ Paquette, Robert L. (2014). "Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Florida by Larry Eugene Rivers". Civil War History. 60 (2): 211–213. doi:10.1353/cwh.2014.0044. S2CID 140292964.
  15. ^ Dangerfield, David (March 2015). "'Rebels and Runaways: Slave Resistance in 19th-Century Florida'. By Larry Eugene Rivers (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. 264 pp.) [Book Review]". Journal of Social History. 48 (3): 736–738. doi:10.1093/jsh/shv017.
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