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{{Infobox person
| name =Jerry Lewis Gaw<br>
(Historian at Lipscomb University<br>in Nashville, Tennessee)
| image = Jerry L Gaw.jpg
| imagesize =
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| birth_date=March 12, 1952
| birth_place=Gainesboro, Jackson County<br>[[Tennessee]], USA
|| death_date=
| death_place =
| resting_place==
| spouse =Vicki Renee Clayton Gaw (married 1976)
| parents =
| children =David Clayton Gaw
| alma_mater =Lipscomb University<br>
Northwestern State University<br>
Mississippi State University
| religion =[[Church of Christ]]
| party =
}}
'''Jerry Lewis Gaw''' (born March 12, 1952) is a [[professor]] of [[history]] at the [[Church of Christ]]-affiliated Lipscomb University in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], whose research specialization is concentrated in the fields of [[Great Britain]], modern [[Europe]], and the history of medicine. He is also a Church of Christ minister.
==Background==
Gaw is the youngest of five children born to Lewis Ambrose Gaw (1918-1995) and the former Sylvia Gerlene Hix (1918-1996) in Gainesboro in Jackson County located on the Cumberland Plateau near Cookeville in north Tennessee not far from the [[Kentucky]] border. His oldest sibling, Joy Chaffin, is a homemaker in Jackson, Tennessee. A brother, Charles Lewis Gaw, was stillborn in 1945. Two other siblings were Shirley Dianne Gaw O'Shields (1942-2011) of Monterey in Putnam County in north central Tennessee and Gary D. Gaw (1950-1998), who died of a ruptured esophagus in Lewisburg in Marshall County, Tennessee, approximately midway between Nashville and [[Huntsville, Alabama]]. Lewis, Charles, Shirley, and Gary Gaw are interred at the Gaw Family Cemetery No. 1 in Gainesboro.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Gaw&GSfn=Lewis&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=169990109&df=all&|title=Lewis Ambrose Gaw|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> Sylvia Gaw was cremated.
During much of his childhood, Jerry Gaw resided in a [[suburb]] of [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], because his father was employed in the [[automobile]] industry. They returned to Gainesboro, at which he graduated in 1970 from Jackson County High School, located at 190 Blue Devil Lane in Gainesboro, a street named for the school sports teams.<ref name=statement>Statement of Jerry L. Gaw, January 13, 2011.</ref>
In 1974, Gaw received his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in history education from the then David Lipscomb College. He then taught in Church of Christ-related schools in Pensacola, [[Florida]], from 1974 to 1976 and in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], at the since closed Shreve Christian School from 1978 to 1979, when he entered Northwestern State University in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana, from which he procured in 1983 his [[Master of Arts]] degree in history.<ref name=lipscombfaculty/> He was a full-time pulpit minister in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, from 1976 to 1978 and thereafter an associate pastor in Shreveport. He served part-time between 1978 and 1980<ref name=statement/> at the since inactive Cotton Valley Church of Christ in Cotton Valley,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizapedia.com/la/cotton-valley-church-of-christ.html|title=Cotton Valley Church of Christ in Cotton Valley, Louisiana|publisher=Bizapedia.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> a [[village]] in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where his wife's grandparents resided, while he was also completing the master's requirements at Northwestern State University. Gaw thereafter enrolled in the [[Doctor|Ph.D.]] program at Mississippi State University in Starkville. After completion of his doctoral course work from 1982 to 1984, he returned permanently to Lipscomb and received his terminal degree in 1990.<ref name=lipscomb/>
Gaw has been married since 1976 to the former Vicki Renee Clayton (born May 28, 1956), a Lipscomb administrative assistant<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Vicki-R-Gaw/Nashville-TN|title=Vicki Gaw|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> originally from Shreveport. They have one son, David Clayton Gaw (born 1977), also of Nashville.
==Academic career==
In 1999, the American Philosophical Society in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], published Gaw's '''A Time to Heal': The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian England,'' a study of the medical progress through antiseptic surgical procedures and other reforms promoted by [[Joseph Lister]].<ref>{{cite book|url=books.google.com/books?isbn=0871698919|title=A Time to Heal: The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian England|publisher=American Philosophical Society|location=[[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]|date=1999|isbn=087169-891-9,|page=178 pp.
|accessdate=December 18, 2010}}</ref>In a review of Gaw's book in ''Victorian Studies,'' Margaret Anne Crowther writes: "Amongst the useful features of the book is a substantial bibliography of works dealing with Joseph Lister and antiseptic surgery. ... Gaw's approach is to concentrate on the years from the late 1860s to the mid-1880s, when Lister's views, at first highly contentious, began to dominate the medical world."<ref>Margaret Anne Crowther, ''Victorian Studies'', Vol. 43, No. 4 (Summer 2001), pp. 688-689.</ref>
Gaw is listed with ''Who's Who in the South and Southwest.'' He is a member of [[Phi Alpha Theta]] honorary history society, the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, the North American Conference on British Studies, and the European section of the Southern Historical Association.<ref name=lipscomb/>He is a member of the steering committee of the Lipscomb University Lifelong Learning Program, a study geared toward the intellectual stimulation of the retired and semi-retired.</ref>{{cite web|url=http://lifelonglearning.lipscomb.edu/|title=The Lifelong Learning Program|publisher=lifelonglearning.lipscomb.edu|accessdate=February 4, 2011}}</ref> He is faculty sponsor of the Lipscomb chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society and has taught abroad for Lipscomb programs in Bath, Somerset, [[England]], and [[Vienna]], [[Austria]].<ref name=lipscombfaculty>{{cite web|url=https://www.lipscomb.edu/history/faculty-staff|title=Jerry L. Gaw: Faculty & Staff at Lipscomb University|publisher=Lipscomb.edu|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref>
In 1980, he penned an article, "Refuge in a Hostile White World: The Negro Church in North Louisiana during Reconstruction," in the publication, ''North Louisiana Historical Association Journal'', since known as ''[[North Louisiana History]]''.<ref>Jerry L. Gaw, "Refuge in a Hostile White World: The Negro Church in North Louisiana during Reconstruction," ''North Louisiana Historical Association Journal'', Vol. 11 No. 4 (Fall 1980), pp 19-32.</ref> He has completed and awaits publication of a [[biography]] of the [[World War I]]-era British [[Prime Minister]] [[David Lloyd George]], a member of the Church of Christ denomination. The work stresses Lloyd George's religious convictions in the implementation of public policy.<ref name=lipscomb faculty/>
==References==
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| name =Jerry Lewis Gaw<br>
(Historian at Lipscomb University<br>in Nashville, Tennessee)
| image = Jerry L Gaw.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption =
| birth_date=March 12, 1952
| birth_place=Gainesboro, Jackson County<br>[[Tennessee]], USA
|| death_date=
| death_place =
| resting_place==
| spouse =Vicki Renee Clayton Gaw (married 1976)
| parents =
| children =David Clayton Gaw
| alma_mater =Lipscomb University<br>
Northwestern State University<br>
Mississippi State University
| religion =[[Church of Christ]]
| party =
}}
'''Jerry Lewis Gaw''' (born March 12, 1952) is a [[professor]] of [[history]] at the [[Church of Christ]]-affiliated Lipscomb University in [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], whose research specialization is concentrated in the fields of [[Great Britain]], modern [[Europe]], and the history of medicine. He is also a Church of Christ minister.
==Background==
Gaw is the youngest of five children born to Lewis Ambrose Gaw (1918-1995) and the former Sylvia Gerlene Hix (1918-1996) in Gainesboro in Jackson County located on the Cumberland Plateau near Cookeville in north Tennessee not far from the [[Kentucky]] border. His oldest sibling, Joy Chaffin, is a homemaker in Jackson, Tennessee. A brother, Charles Lewis Gaw, was stillborn in 1945. Two other siblings were Shirley Dianne Gaw O'Shields (1942-2011) of Monterey in Putnam County in north central Tennessee and Gary D. Gaw (1950-1998), who died of a ruptured esophagus in Lewisburg in Marshall County, Tennessee, approximately midway between Nashville and [[Huntsville, Alabama]]. Lewis, Charles, Shirley, and Gary Gaw are interred at the Gaw Family Cemetery No. 1 in Gainesboro.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Gaw&GSfn=Lewis&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=169990109&df=all&|title=Lewis Ambrose Gaw|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> Sylvia Gaw was cremated.
During much of his childhood, Jerry Gaw resided in a [[suburb]] of [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], because his father was employed in the [[automobile]] industry. They returned to Gainesboro, at which he graduated in 1970 from Jackson County High School, located at 190 Blue Devil Lane in Gainesboro, a street named for the school sports teams.<ref name=statement>Statement of Jerry L. Gaw, January 13, 2011.</ref>
In 1974, Gaw received his [[Bachelor of Arts]] in history education from the then David Lipscomb College. He then taught in Church of Christ-related schools in Pensacola, [[Florida]], from 1974 to 1976 and in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]], at the since closed Shreve Christian School from 1978 to 1979, when he entered Northwestern State University in [[Natchitoches, Louisiana|Natchitoches]], Louisiana, from which he procured in 1983 his [[Master of Arts]] degree in history.<ref name=lipscombfaculty/> He was a full-time pulpit minister in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, from 1976 to 1978 and thereafter an associate pastor in Shreveport. He served part-time between 1978 and 1980<ref name=statement/> at the since inactive Cotton Valley Church of Christ in Cotton Valley,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bizapedia.com/la/cotton-valley-church-of-christ.html|title=Cotton Valley Church of Christ in Cotton Valley, Louisiana|publisher=Bizapedia.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> a [[village]] in Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, where his wife's grandparents resided, while he was also completing the master's requirements at Northwestern State University. Gaw thereafter enrolled in the [[Doctor|Ph.D.]] program at Mississippi State University in Starkville. After completion of his doctoral course work from 1982 to 1984, he returned permanently to Lipscomb and received his terminal degree in 1990.<ref name=lipscomb/>
Gaw has been married since 1976 to the former Vicki Renee Clayton (born May 28, 1956), a Lipscomb administrative assistant<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.intelius.com/people-search/Vicki-R-Gaw/Nashville-TN|title=Vicki Gaw|publisher=Intelius.com|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref> originally from Shreveport. They have one son, David Clayton Gaw (born 1977), also of Nashville.
==Academic career==
In 1999, the American Philosophical Society in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], published Gaw's '''A Time to Heal': The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian England,'' a study of the medical progress through antiseptic surgical procedures and other reforms promoted by [[Joseph Lister]].<ref>{{cite book|url=books.google.com/books?isbn=0871698919|title=A Time to Heal: The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian England|publisher=American Philosophical Society|location=[[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]|date=1999|isbn=087169-891-9,|page=178 pp.
|accessdate=December 18, 2010}}</ref>In a review of Gaw's book in ''Victorian Studies,'' Margaret Anne Crowther writes: "Amongst the useful features of the book is a substantial bibliography of works dealing with Joseph Lister and antiseptic surgery. ... Gaw's approach is to concentrate on the years from the late 1860s to the mid-1880s, when Lister's views, at first highly contentious, began to dominate the medical world."<ref>Margaret Anne Crowther, ''Victorian Studies'', Vol. 43, No. 4 (Summer 2001), pp. 688-689.</ref>
Gaw is listed with ''Who's Who in the South and Southwest.'' He is a member of [[Phi Alpha Theta]] honorary history society, the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, the North American Conference on British Studies, and the European section of the Southern Historical Association.<ref name=lipscomb/>He is a member of the steering committee of the Lipscomb University Lifelong Learning Program, a study geared toward the intellectual stimulation of the retired and semi-retired.</ref>{{cite web|url=http://lifelonglearning.lipscomb.edu/|title=The Lifelong Learning Program|publisher=lifelonglearning.lipscomb.edu|accessdate=February 4, 2011}}</ref> He is faculty sponsor of the Lipscomb chapter of the Phi Alpha Theta National History Honor Society and has taught abroad for Lipscomb programs in Bath, Somerset, [[England]], and [[Vienna]], [[Austria]].<ref name=lipscombfaculty>{{cite web|url=https://www.lipscomb.edu/history/faculty-staff|title=Jerry L. Gaw: Faculty & Staff at Lipscomb University|publisher=Lipscomb.edu|accessdate=September 20, 2017}}</ref>
In 1980, he penned an article, "Refuge in a Hostile White World: The Negro Church in North Louisiana during Reconstruction," in the publication, ''North Louisiana Historical Association Journal'', since known as ''[[North Louisiana History]]''.<ref>Jerry L. Gaw, "Refuge in a Hostile White World: The Negro Church in North Louisiana during Reconstruction," ''North Louisiana Historical Association Journal'', Vol. 11 No. 4 (Fall 1980), pp 19-32.</ref> He has completed and awaits publication of a [[biography]] of the [[World War I]]-era British [[Prime Minister]] [[David Lloyd George]], a member of the Church of Christ denomination. The work stresses Lloyd George's religious convictions in the implementation of public policy.<ref name=lipscomb faculty/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gaw, Jerry}}
[[Category:Tennessee
[[Category:Michigan]]
[[Category:Florida]]
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Historians]]
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Clergy]]
[[Category:Church of Christ]]