Jim Landers:
CLASS OF 1965
Southwest Miami High SchoolClass of 1965
Miami, FL
Jim's Story
What I've been doing for the last 46 years. My memory being what it is, this was quite a struggle. But, for the time-being here you go:
Graduated Southwest Miami High School 1965
GRAPHIC ARTS CAREER - '66 - now
Miami Herald - '66 - '72.
1/2/71, married Jane Gilmer,
Community Newspapers - '72 - '74
Charlotte, NC - '74 - '82
2 printing companies
1 ad agency - designer
Gainesville, FL - '82 - '92
3 advertising agencies - designer
Business owner - 9 yrs. Landers Design - art director - many design awards, employed three.
Jane - masters degree - University of Florida
'92 - present - Nashville, TN -
2 design firms - designer
Gibson Guitar - creative director - "super custom" guitar designer
freelance design
spine fracture - 2005
retired
liver transplant recipient - January, 2010 - currently doing great
Proud of: Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University, 1992-2013) A Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of History, former Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Science and past Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. She is the author of Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions (Cambridge, Mass., 2010) which was awarded the Rembert Patrick Book Award and has been awarded honorary mention for the 2011 Bolton Johnson Prize for the best English-language book on any aspect of Latin American History. She has also authored Black Society in Spanish Florida (Urbana, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005) which was awarded the Frances B. Simkins Prize for Distinguished First Book in Southern History and was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. She co-authored the college textbook, The Atlantic World: A History, 1400-1888 (Harlan Davidson, 2007) and is the editor of Colonial Plantati...Expand for more
ons and Economy in Florida (Gainesville, 2000, 2001) and Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the Americas (London, 1996). She is co-editor of Slaves, Subjects and Subversives: Blacks in Colonial Latin America (Albuquerque, 2006), and The African American Heritage of Florida (Gainesville, 1995) which won the Rembert Patrick Book Award and a commendation from the American Society for State and Local History. She has published essays in The American Historical Review, Slavery and Abolition, The New West Indian Guide, The Americas, Colonial Latin American Historical Review and a variety of anthologies and edited volumes. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Conference on Latin American History, Vanderbilt University, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition, the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute, and the Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spainâs Ministry of Culture and United Statesâ Universities. Dr. Jane Landers - respected historian, author, researcher - Vanderbilt University - '92 - present
Update 11/27/13 - Much more, Google Jane Landers, Vanderbilt University
July, 2012 - acquired 56 beautiful wooded acres outside Nashville with a cabin overlooking 1 of four ponds. Killer.
November 27, 2013 - I'm doing well, enjoying retirement, loving my wonderful 9 y/o English Springer Spaniel, Baby, born here on Christmas Eve day, 2004, BEST present possible. Restoring and building vintage and hot rod automobiles, collecting and restoring vintage items, housewifeing, handyman. Macintosh nut - internet searching, art, photography, and at 69, aching.
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