James H. Meredith
James H. Meredith is currently a member of the Core Faculty at Capella University. He earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Georgia and served as the Faculty President at the United States Air Force Academy in 1999, where he taught for 15 years, earning the rank of Professor in 2000. His academic training is in twentieth-century literature, with an emphasis in American literature. He has lectured nationally and internationally, most notably on Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He is the recipient of two Hemingway Research Grants from the John F. Kennedy Library and garnered honorable mention twice for the McDermott Award for Research Excellence from the Air Force Academy, the first officer from the Humanities to ever win such awards. Dr. Meredith is the president of the International Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society.