Melvin Patrick Ely

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Melvin Ely has also written The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon (1991; 2nd edition, 2001); that book probes the racial ideas and behavior of black and white Americans as reflected in the popular radio and television series and in the ways people of both races responded to it. Like Israel on the Appomattox, Ely's Amos 'n' Andy was featured on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review, which cited it as a Notable Book of 1991.

In 2006, the governor of Virginia presented the Commonwealth's Outstanding Faculty Award to Ely. During his years on the faculty at Yale University, Ely received both the Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication and Research and the Prize for Teaching Excellence. He served as Fulbright Professor of American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1998-1999. He is chair of the board of directors of the University of Virginia Press. Ely received his doctoral degree from Princeton University in 1985, and a master's degree in linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1978.