Dr. Dave Daily is retiring this spring after 26 years teaching at the University of the Ozarks. He sat down with The Levee host Estefania Bautista Lopez to discuss his career, religion and education, and his upcoming plans.

A native of Arkadelphia, Ark., Daily earned his undergraduate degree at Ouachita Baptist University and his master of divinity degree from Yale University. He was awarded the Ph.D. in religion at Duke University, where he specialized in American religious history.

Daily has been named the recipient of the University of the Ozarks’ Richard and Katherene Bagwell Outstanding Faculty Award in 2004 and 2009 and received the Dr. Rick and Sheree Niece President’s Above and Beyond Service Award in 2013. He is also the author of the book, “Battle for the BIA: G.E.E. Lindquist and the Missionary Crusade Against John Col ...