Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is an American historian of the American South at
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
. She is the author of many publications, including "These United States: A Nation in the Making 1890 to Present" (2015), "Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920" (1996), and "Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950" (2008).
Life
An eighth-generation North Carolinian, Gilmore received her B.A. in Psychology from
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...
. She taught high school history in South Carolina for several years and held managerial positions in private industry before returning to school to graduate from the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte or simply Charlotte) is a public research university in Charlotte, North Carolina. UNC Charlotte offers 24 doctoral, 66 master's, and 79 bachelor's degree programs through nine colle ...
with an M.A., and the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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with a Ph.D. She studied at the Radcliffe Institute at
Harvard University
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.
She taught history at
Queens University of Charlotte
The Queens University of Charlotte is a private university in Charlotte, North Carolina. It has approximately 2,300 undergraduate and graduate students through the College of Arts and Sciences, the McColl School of Business, the Wayland H. Cato, ...
in
Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Located in the Piedmont region, it is the county seat of Mecklenburg County. The population was 874,579 at the 2020 census, making Charlotte the 16th-most populo ...
before joining
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...
as an assistant professor in 1994, full professor of history in 1998, and Peter V. &
C. Vann Woodward Professor of History in 2001. She is also a member of the University's African American studies and American studies departments and currently serves as the Acting Chair of the African American Studies Department. Her areas of expertise include: race relations, women's and African-American history, the history of social reform, American religious activism, North Carolina history, the history of prostitution and the political, social and cultural history of the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
In 2015 she published, with
Thomas Sugrue
Thomas J. Sugrue (born 1962, Detroit, Michigan) is an American historian of the 20th-century United States at New York University. From 1991 to 2015, he was the David Boies Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania and ...
, a synthetic reinterpretation of society and politics in twentieth century America.
She is married to noted Cambodian genocide scholar
Ben Kiernan
Benedict F. "Ben" Kiernan (born 1953) is an Australian-born American academic and historian who is the Whitney Griswold Professor Emeritus of History, Professor of International and Area Studies and Director of the Genocide Studies Program at Yal ...
.
Awards
* Lerner-Scott Prize from the
Organization of American Historians
The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad inc ...
*
Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the
Organization of American Historians
The Organization of American Historians (OAH), formerly known as the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, is the largest professional society dedicated to the teaching and study of American history. OAH's members in the U.S. and abroad inc ...
for the best first book by an author
*
James A. Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the best book on the history of race relations in the United States (1997)
* Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the
Southern Association for Women Historians
* Yale Heyman Prize for junior faculty
Works
* ''Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920''. 1996
* ''Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950'' W. W. Norton & Company, January 2008.
* ''"Am I a 'Screwball,' or am I a Pioneer?": Pauli's Murray's Civil Rights Movement'' in Walter Isaacson (ed.) ''Profiles in Leadership'' (
W. W. Norton & Company, 2011)
References
External links
"Meet Glenda Gilmore", ''WUNC''*
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Yale University faculty
21st-century American historians
Historians of the Southern United States
Wake Forest University alumni
University of North Carolina at Charlotte alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Writers from Greensboro, North Carolina
Queens University of Charlotte faculty
American women historians
21st-century American women writers