Danney Goble
Goble has been a professor in the Department of Classics and Letters at OU since 1999. A graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma, Goble received his doctoral degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1976 and did his post-doctoral studies at The Newberry Library in Chicago at the Quantitative History Institute and the Community History institute.
His current research includes the life of Henry Bellman and Oklahoma's vocational and technical education. Goble has published numerous books and articles on Oklahoma, including "TULSA! The Biography of an American City", Oklahoma Book Award Finalist and "The Story of Oklahoma" which won the Book of the Year from the Oklahoma Historical Society. He assisted Carl Albert with his biography, "Little Giant" for which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Biography or Autobiography in 1990.
He teaches classes in United States history, a seminar on "The Grapes of Wrath", the history of Oklahoma and the American West as well as politics in Oklahoma.
In addition to his work at the college, Goble has served on the Governor's Commission on the Reorganization of State Government, Leadership Oklahoma, the Law Related Education Committee of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Governor's Appointee to Oklahoma Constitutional Revision Study Commission and the Chancellor of Higher Education's Appointee to Legislative Committee to Investigate the Oklahoma Historical Society. He also has appeared in the movies "Tex," "The Outsiders," and "Rumblefish."
For more information, visit his Web site.
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