Poteat, William H.

  1. Poteat, William H.
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See Box 1, Folder 1 for a more detailed chronology of Poteat's life and work, particularly as it relates to thought of Michael Polanyi.

1919 April 19 William Hardman Poteat (WHP) was born in China, the son of Baptist missionaries and a member of a long line of North Carolina educators. He spent the first ten years of his life in China. 1937 Completed his high school education in Raleigh, North Carolina 1941 B.A. degree from Oberlin College with Phi Beta Kappa honors 1944 B.D. Yale Divinity School 1944 1947 Served as a program coordinator for the YMCA at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill 1947 Joined the faculty of the Philosophy Department at the University of North Carolina as instructor. Philosophy of Religion was immediately, and would remain throughout his teaching career, a major area of concentration. 1951 Ph.D. Duke University 1955 Having risen to the rank of associate professor at UNC, Poteat received an Outstanding Teaching Award in 1955 1958 1959 Taught at Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, TX 1960 1987 Joined Duke University Divinity School faculty as an associate professor of Christianity and Culture 1968 1987 Joined the Department of Religion at Duke University, increasing his role in advising and directing doctoral theses 1968 Poteat and his colleague, Thomas A. Langford, completed their editorial work on Intellect and Hope: Essays in the Thought of Michael Polanyi, published that year by the Duke University Press for the Lilly Endowment Research Program in Christianity and Politics. 1969 Named to the National Humanities Faculty 1972 1978 Chaired the Department of Religion at Duke University 1985 Polanyian Meditations: In Search of a Post-Critical Logic published by the Duke University Press 1987 2000 Professor Emeritus, Duke University 1990 A Philosophical Daybook: Post-Critical Investigations published by the University of Missouri Press 1994 Recovering the Ground: Critical Exercises in Recollection published by the State University of New York Press 1994 1999 Taught in the adult education program at Athens College (a part of the State University of New York system) in Greece, where his wife, Patricia Poteat, served as president, 1994 – 1999 2000 May 17 Died after an extended illness. He was survived by his wife, Patricia; three children, Susan Poteat Uhler; Anne Carlyle; and Edwin McNeill Poteat III; three grandchildren; and his two sisters, Haley McGill and Elizabeth Terry

From the guide to the William H. Poteat Papers, 1954-2010, (Yale University Divinity School Library)
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