John Kirk photographed for Faculty Excellence on March 30, 2016.

Historian John Kirk appeared on the podcast “Getting Schooled with Abby Hornacek” to discuss the desegregation of Little Rock’s Central High School.

John A. Kirk is the George W. Donaghey Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the author or editor of ten books, including Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High CrisisAn Epitaph for Little Rock: A Fiftieth Anniversary Retrospective on the Central High Crisis, and Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas: New Perspectives. His  most recent book is Winthrop Rockefeller: From New Yorker to Arkansawyer, 1912–1956.