Location: Alabama, USA

Level of Training: (Level II – 2019)

About:

Dr. Mark Wilson is director of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts &
Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama.

Originally from Saraland, Alabama, Wilson has worked with community members,
partnering organizations, students, and faculty in the College of Liberal Arts at
Auburn University since 2006. He holds degrees from the University of Mobile (BA),
Mercer University (Master of Divinity), and Auburn University (PhD, history). He is
the author of William Owen Carver’s Controversies in the Baptist South (Mercer
University) and co-author of Living Democracy: Students as Citizens, Communities as
Classrooms (Kettering Foundation Press).

Wilson has served as secretary of the Alabama Historical Association since 2007. He
has taught community engagement and practicum courses at Auburn University,
and in 2018, he was voted by students at Auburn University to deliver the “Final
Lecture.” Wilson has coordinated contracts and grants with the National
Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, Appalachian
Regional Commission, Kettering Foundation, David Mathews Center for Civic Life,
Alabama Humanities Foundation, and others. He is a former member of the Board
of Directors for the National Issues Forums Institute.

Contact Information: mwilson@auburn.edu