Glenda Gilmore

Glenda Gilmore, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1992, is Professor of African American Studies, Professor of American Studies, and Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, and Director of Graduate Studies of the African American Studies Department for 2009–2010. She offers seminars in the history of the New South and race and gender. She is co–editor of Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights and author of Gender and Jim Crow: Women and Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920, which won the James A. Rawley Prize in 1997 for the best book in race relations and the Frederick Jackson Turner for the best first book by an author, both given by the Organization of American Historians. It also won the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, awarded by the Southern Association for Women Historians and Yale University's Heyman Prize. Her latest book is Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919–1950 (2008), which was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and named a Notable Book of 2008 by the American Library Association.