Michele Gillespie is the Provost and Presidential Endowed Professor of

Southern History The history of the Southern United States spans back thousand of years to the first evidence of human occupation. The Paleo-Indians were the first peoples to inhabit the Americas and what would become the Southern United States. By the time Eu ...

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 ...

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. She specializes in American history, focusing on

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, and region in the

American South The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, or simply the South) is a geographic and cultural region of the United States of America. It is between the Atlantic Ocean ...

. In 2005, she served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She is series co-editor of ''New Directions in Southern History'', published by the

University Press of Kentucky The University Press of Kentucky (UPK) is the scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and was organized in 1969 as successor to the University of Kentucky Press. The university had sponsored scholarly publication since 1943. In 194 ...

, with William Link. In 2015, Gillespie was named Dean of Wake Forest University's undergraduate college. In 2022, she was appointed Provost. Gillespie received her Ph.D. from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

, where she studied under the direction of

James M. McPherson James Munro McPherson (born October 11, 1936) is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for '' Battle Cry of ...

. She studied at

Rice University William Marsh Rice University (Rice University) is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas. It is on a 300-acre campus near the Houston Museum District and adjacent to the Texas Medical Center. Rice is ranke ...

in Houston, Texas as an undergraduate student.

Works

* ''Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune and the Making of the New South'', (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012) * ''Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World'', Michele Gillespie and Robert M. Beachy, eds. (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007) * ''Thomas Dixon and the Birth of Modern America'', Michele Gillespie and Randal Hall (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006) * ''Neither Lady Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South'', Michele Gillespie and Susanna Delfino (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002) * ''Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860'', (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000) * ''Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women's History'', Michele Gillespie and

Catherine Clinton Catherine Clinton is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South, the American Civil War, American women, and African Americ ...

, eds. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998). * ''The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South'',

and Michele Gillespie, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

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