Celebrating Dr. Dave Daily, Profe...

Celebrating Dr. Dave Daily, Professor of Religion

The Levee Podcast by KUOZ University of the Ozarks
S2 · E9
May 14, 2026
22:04

Episode notes

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 Collier.”

Daily is married to Teresa Wooten Daily, a pediatrician-turned-Episcopal priest, and they have two adult children, Emma and Wilson.

Guest

Dr. Dave Daily

Host

Estefania Lopez

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