Charles L. Flynn, Jr., was appointed president of Mount Saint Vincent in July 2000.
An historian, he earned his B.A. at Hamilton College, and the M.A. and Ph.D. at Duke University. He is the author of White Land, Black Labor: Caste and Class in the Late Nineteenth Century Georgia (LSU, 1983), and co-editor of an award-winning volume entitled Race, Class, and Politics in Southern History: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Durden (LSU, 1989), as well as numerous articles.