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'''Jerry Lewis Gaw''' (March 12, 1952 – February 1, 2023) was a [[professor]] of [[history]] at the [[Church of Christ]]-affiliated Lipscomb University in the capital city of [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], whose research specialization is concentrated in the fields of [[Great Britain]], modern [[Europe]], and the history of medicine. He was also an associate minister, most recently at Cheap Hill Church of Christ in Cheap Hill, a community thirty miles from Nashville. He retired from Lipscomb in May 2020.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.nashvillefuneralandcremation.com/obituaries/jerry-gaw|title=Jerry Gaw|publisher=Nashville Fhnearl and Cremation|access_date=March 12, 2025}}</ref>
'''Jerry Lewis Gaw''' (March 12, 1952 – February 1, 2023) was a [[professor]] of [[history]] at the [[Church of Christ]]-affiliated Lipscomb University in the capital city of [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]], whose research specialization is concentrated in the fields of [[Great Britain]], modern [[Europe]], and the history of medicine. He was also an associate minister, most recently at Cheap Hill Church of Christ in Cheap Hill, a community thirty miles from Nashville. He retired from Lipscomb in May 2020.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.nashvillefuneralandcremation.com/obituaries/jerry-gaw|title=Jerry Gaw|publisher=Nashville Funeral and Cremation|access_date=March 12, 2025}}</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
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 renamed ''[[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 published a study of the [[World War I]]-era British [[Prime Minister]] [[David Lloyd George]], who was a member of the Church of Christ denomination. The work examines how Lloyd George's religious convictions affected the implementation of public policy.<ref name=lipscombfaculty/> Gaw has entries on Edward Jenner and Joseph Lister in ''The Research Guide to European Historical Biography''.<ref>Edward Jenner and Joseph Lister entries, ''The Research Guide to European Historical Biography'', edited by James A. Moncure (Washington, D.C.: Beacham Publishing, 1993), 8 vols., pp. 3414-27 (Jenner), pp. 3649-61 (Lister).</ref> He has penned two book reviews in ''The Stone-Campbell Journal,'' published in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]].''<ref>Book reviews in ''The Stone-Campbell Journal'' of David W. Bebbington, ''The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody'', Vol. 9 (Fall 2006), 264-65, and John Howard Smith, ''The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion: A History of Sandemanianism in the Eighteenth Century'', Vol. 14 (Spring 2011), pp. 87-88.</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 renamed ''[[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 published a study of the [[World War I]]-era British [[Prime Minister]] [[David Lloyd George]], who was a member of the Church of Christ denomination. The work examines how Lloyd George's religious convictions affected the implementation of public policy.<ref name=lipscombfaculty/> Gaw has entries on Edward Jenner and Joseph Lister in ''The Research Guide to European Historical Biography''.<ref>Edward Jenner and Joseph Lister entries, ''The Research Guide to European Historical Biography'', edited by James A. Moncure (Washington, D.C.: Beacham Publishing, 1993), 8 vols., pp. 3414-27 (Jenner), pp. 3649-61 (Lister).</ref> He has penned two book reviews in ''The Stone-Campbell Journal,'' published in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]].''<ref>Book reviews in ''The Stone-Campbell Journal'' of David W. Bebbington, ''The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody'', Vol. 9 (Fall 2006), 264-65, and John Howard Smith, ''The Perfect Rule of the Christian Religion: A History of Sandemanianism in the Eighteenth Century'', Vol. 14 (Spring 2011), pp. 87-88.</ref>
Gaw died at his home in Nashville of a brief illness six weeks before his 71st birthday.<ref name=obit/>
==References==
==References==