Louis B. Gallien, Jr., B.S., M.A., Ed.D.
Distinguished Professor
Louis B. Gallien, Jr. is Distinguished Professor of Education and department chair of the doctoral program in higher education leadership. He came to Regent in the fall of 2002 full-time, before spending a year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Education (2001-2002). Professor Gallien began his college teaching career at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi in 1987 the same year he earned his doctorate from the University of North Carolina. During the ensuing years, he taught at Transylvania University (one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States), Wheaton College (one of the oldest evangelical colleges in the country), served as Department Chair of the teacher education program at Mercer University (one of the largest Baptist universities in the country) and, before arriving at Regent in 2002, was a professor of urban education at Spelman College (one of only two remaining historically black colleges for women in the U.S.). He also held adjunct professorial positions at Morehouse College and Emory University. He has taught courses on the B.S., M.Ed. M.A.T., Ed.S. and Ed.D degree levels at the afore-mentioned educational institutions. He also served two terms as President of the Georgia Association of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges for Teacher Education.
Gallien’s primary research interests center on African American pedagogy, culture and history. In that vein, he has co-edited two texts titled: Instructing and Mentoring the African American College Student: Strategies for Success in Higher Education, Allyn and Bacon, 2004 and Closing the African American Achievement Gap in Higher Education, Teachers College Press, 2007 with colleagues Fred Rovai and Helen Stiff-Williams. He has written monographs, chapters and articles on the following African American themes: black male underachievement patterns and attitudes towards education in the deep South, impact of a cross-cultural mentoring program in an inner-city environment, the impact of hip-hop culture on the values of African American college students, the pedagogical ramifications of the works of W.E.B. DuBois on contemporary college students, utilizing cross-cultural texts in a pedagogy and ethics graduate course, the positive impact of a Core Curriculum on middle school African American students, the impact of high-stakes testing on African American students, distance education issues impacting African American graduate students and their sense of community and academic connectness. He has also collaborated with two Regent psychology professors, Professors Mark Yarhouse and Latrelle Jackson on articles pertaining to the conflicted identities and issues surrounding black men who engage in same sex behaviors and indigenous forms and frameworks of character development in black communities with Professors Yarhouse and his former doctoral fellow, Dr. Emery Petchauer of Lincoln University.
Also, he has completed two encyclopedic biographies on John Perkins and Jeanne Middleton-Hairston for the Harvard University series on Notable African Americans in the 21st Century, edited by Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Chair of the African American Studies at Harvard for publication in Oxford University Press in 07-08. He is involved in an international study for research in England, Brazil and the United States on African-Caribbean male high school students for which he has received two grants also with Professor Pethchauer. He recently completed a chapter titled: “Crossing Over Jordan: Navigating the Music of heavenly bliss and earthly desire in the lives of three African American cross-over artists”, for a book from New York University Press entitled: Afro-Pentecostalism and its changing discourses.
His secondary research interests center on the integration of faith and learning from pedagogical and historical perspectives. In that regard, he has written a series of four monographs on the early history of Wheaton College that focuses on their radical heritage as an abolitionist institution during 1994-2004: (Almost Persuaded: The Wesleyan-Holiness Movement’s Influence on Jonathan Blanchard and Wheaton College from 1839-1889, Revive Us Again: The Conflicted Missions of Oberlin and Wheaton College During the Progressive Era, A Daughter of the King: The Ministry and Life Of Rev. Frances Townsley During the Progressive Era, 1873-1903, Is Your All on the Altar?: The Quest for Wesleyan Perfection in Revivals at Oberlin and Wheaton Colleges) His chapter on Blanchard was funded by the Pew Foundation and the other articles were funded by grants from Wheaton College. The papers were presented at conferences at the Society of American Church Historians meetings at Oberlin and Wheaton Colleges, and twice at Asbury Theological Seminary.
His other papers and articles are on faith-based pedagogy, Christian ethics, and the effects of multicultural trends on Christian institutions. He assists the Regent University Office of Academic Affairs in the areas of faculty development for Regent’s faculty at- large on issues of faith in the academy and served as a consultant for the Consortium of Christian Colleges and Universities in the summer of 1995 for a faculty development seminar on culturally responsive teaching methods at the university and college levels at Seattle Pacific University. He is presently working on a book that traces the precarious future of three collegiate environments: women’s colleges, historically black colleges and universities and evangelical Christian colleges for Oxford University Press.
He has held six major fellowships in his career from the University of Michigan (Rackham Fellow), Wye Institute (Wye Plantation, MD), Pew Foundation (research), Mellon Fellow (overseas institute), NEH (summer research at Haverford College, PA), Georgia Governor’s Teaching Fellow (University of Georgia) He recently represented Regent at two international institutes, the Oxford Roundtable at Lincoln College, Oxford University and the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria. He was also a Visiting Scholar at Oxford-Brookes University in Oxford, England in the summer of 2004.
He has conducted faculty development seminars on effective pedagogical strategies for colleges and universities across the country, including at one of the few men’s colleges in the United States, Morehouse College, where he co-led their Annual Faculty Development Conference in May of 2002 with Dr. Angela Farris-Watkins, an educational psychologist and the niece of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He was also a plenary speaker at the Tenth Annual Black Family Conference in Louisville, KY where he presented his research on black males alongside Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu. He has also conducted faculty in-service workshops for the Schools of Undergraduate Studies, Divinity, Psychology and Counseling and the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University. In March of 2010, Professor Gallien will be the Spring Convocation Speaker at Erskine College (SC) where he will deliver an address on the contemporary search for effective faith and learning integration models in church-related institutions in the South.
In 2006, Gallien was presented three awards from the University: He was given the Annual Faculty Spring Award for outstanding teaching, research and service, the School of Education Professor of the Year Award and, finally, The Chancellor’s Award as the outstanding faculty member of the year for the entire University faculty.
He is married to Lee Joyner Gallien, a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, and a former primary teacher and travel agent. They have two children, a daughter, Saralee, who graduated from the Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts and earned a B.A. in Art from Bard College. Their son, Christian, is a ninth grader at First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach. They are active parishioners at Galilee Episcopal Church in Virginia Beach where he teaches and chairs the Adult Education Program and is also pursuing his diaconal license in the Episcopal Church. His spouse teaches in the young children’s programs. They reside in Linkhorn Cove in Virginia Beach.
Contact Information
Regent University School of Education
1000 Regent University Drive, ADM 216
Virginia Beach, VA 23464
757.352.4219, FAX 757.352.4857
louigal@regent.edu
