Dr. David Hamilton Golland is Dean of the Wayne D. McMurray School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of History at Monmouth University. He holds a PhD from the City University of New York and an MA from the University of Virginia. Prior to his appointment at Monmouth, Dr. Golland was Professor of History at Governors State University in Chicago's south suburbs, where he led the social sciences and humanities faculty for eight years and served four years as President of the University Faculty Senate.

Dr. Golland's latest book, Livin' Just to Find Emotion: Journey and the Story of American Rock (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024), explores the re-segregation of popular music through the history of the American rock band Journey. It has received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal.

His previous books, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Arthur Fletcher and the Conundrum of the Black Republican (University Press of Kansas, 2019) and Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity (University Press of Kentucky, 2011), have garnered positive reviews in the American Historical Review, the Journal of American History, and the Journal of Southern History, among others. A Terrible Thing to Waste, released in paperback in 2024 with a new foreword by Arthur Fletcher's son Paul, was the 2020-2021 Washburn University iRead (freshman common read) selection; Constructing Affirmative Action was the subject of a panel discussion at the 2012 annual conference of the National Association for Ethnic Studies.

Dr. Golland has also published articles in Salon, Writer's Digest, California History, Rock Music Studies, The Strange Brew, Critical Issues in Justice and Politics, The Claremont Journal of Religion, and the American Historical Association’s newsmagazine Perspectives on History.

He is editor of the Arthur Fletcher Papers, a 250,000-page digitized collection held at the Mabee Library at Washburn University. He also is editing his father's papers, which will be published by International Psychoanalytic Books in 2025 as Flexibly Freudian: The Collected Works of Jeffrey H. Golland.

He makes several public appearances each year at bookstores, libraries, and scholarly conferences; gives frequent radio interviews; and has appeared on C-SPAN's American History TV.

More information can be found on his Wikipedia entry.