David M. Fahey

Who is David M. Fahey?

David M. Fahey was a history professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. After his retirement in 2006, he continued to teach modern British and world history at Miami on a part-time basis.

Educated at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana he has written extensively on the Anglo-American temperance movement and, in particular, the Good Templar fraternal temperance society. He served as president of the Alcohol and Temperance History Group. He is the author of Temperance and Racism: John Bull, Johnny Reb, and the Good Templars and the editor of The Collected Writings of Jessie Forsyth, 1847-1937: The Good Templars and Temperance Reform on Three Continents. He served with Jack S. Blocker and Ian R. Tyrrell as an editor of Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia. Fahey was the first recipient of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society's senior scholar achievement award for lifetime service. He is a member of the editorial board, "Drugs and Alcohol: Contested Histories," a series published by Northern Illinois University Press.