William Fitzhugh Brundage is an American
historian
A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the stu ...
, and
William Umstead Distinguished Professor, at
University of North Carolina
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. His works focus on white and black historical memory in the American South since the Civil War.
Early life
Brundage graduated from the
University of Chicago
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with an MA in 1984,
and from
Harvard University
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with an MA and Ph.D, in 1988.
Career
Brundage taught at
Queen's University at Kingston
Queen's University at Kingston, commonly known as Queen's University or simply Queen's, is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Queen's holds more than of land throughout Ontario and owns Herstmonceux Castle in East Suss ...
, and
University of Florida
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.
He teaches at
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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, where he is the
William Umstead Distinguished Professor in the History department.
Brundage is the author and editor of a number of books. He won the
Merle Curti Award The Merle Curti Award is awarded annually by the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American social and/or American intellectual history. It is named in honor of Merle Curti
Merle Eugene Curti (September 15, 1897 – March ...
from the
Organization of American Historians
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in 1994 for ''Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930''.
He is a
Guggenheim Fellow
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.
[http://college.unc.edu/features/april2011/article.2011-04-15.6199353678 ]
Works
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* Introduction to ''
Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era'',
Louisiana State University Press
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, 2017
References
External links
Official websiteUNC website
Living people
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Harvard University alumni
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
1959 births
University of Chicago alumni
Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
University of Florida faculty
American male non-fiction writers
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