Thavolia Glymph
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| Alma mater | Hampton University Purdue University |
| Occupation(s) | Historian, professor |
| Employer | Duke University |
| Notable work | Out of the House of Bondage |
| Title | Professor of History and African-American Studies |
Thavolia Glymph is an historian and professor. She is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Duke University.[1]
Education
Glymph earned her Ph.D. in economic history from Purdue University in 1994.[2] As an undergrad at Hampton University and fluent French speaker, Glymph had originally intended to major in European history or French, but an article by Purdue historian Harold Woodman on the profitability of slavery sparked her interest and she went on to pursue graduate work with Woodman.[3]
Career
Glymph's 2008 book, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, won the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award[4] and was finalist for the Jefferson Davis Award for outstanding narrative work on the period of the Confederacy[5] and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition.[6]
In 2014, Glymph won the George and Ann Richards Prize for best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2013; her article, "Rose's War and the Gendered Politics of Slave Insurgency in the Civil War" described Rose's role as one of the leaders of a slave revolt.[7]
Bibliography
- co-ed. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 1, The Destruction of Slavery. (Cambridge University Press, 1985)
- co-ed. Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy (TAMU Press, 1985)
- co-ed. Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 3, The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South. (Cambridge University Press, 1990)
- Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press, 2008)[8][9][10]
- Women at War: Race, Gender, and Power in the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, forthcoming)
- African American Women and Children Refugees: A History of War and the Making of Freedom (forthcoming)
References
- ^ "Thavolia Glymph | Duke University History Department". history.duke.edu. Duke University. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ "People | DUPRI". dupri.duke.edu. Duke University. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ "Dr. Thavolia Glymph". The Urban News. 14 January 2015. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ "Past Award Recipients | The ILR School | Cornell University". www.ilr.cornell.edu. Cornell ILR School. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ "Endnotes". Civil War History. 55 (4): 538–541. 2009. doi:10.1353/cwh.0.0119. ISSN 1533-6271.
- ^ "2009 Frederick Douglass Prize | The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition". glc.yale.edu. Yale University. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ Sinclair, Donna (April 10, 2014). "ANN: Thavolia Glymph has won the George and Ann Richards Prize | H-War | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ Towers, Frank (2010). "Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (review)". Labour / Le Travail. 66 (1): 263–266. ISSN 1911-4842. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ Graham, Sean (2009). "Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge; New York: CUP, 2008)". Past Imperfect. 15: 450–455. doi:10.21971/P7TP45. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ^ Millward, Jessica (1 June 2009). "Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household". The Journal of American History. 96 (1): 233. doi:10.2307/27694804. ISSN 0021-8723. JSTOR 27694804. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
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