Michele Gillespie
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Michele Gillespie is the Provost and Presidential Endowed Professor of Southern History at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She specializes in American history, focusing on gender, race, class, and region in the American South.[1] 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, with William Link.
In 2015, Gillespie was named Dean of Wake Forest University's undergraduate college.[2] In 2022, she was appointed Provost.[3]
Gillespie received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she studied under the direction of James M. McPherson. She studied at Rice University in Houston, Texas as an undergraduate student.
Works
[edit]- 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, eds. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998).
- The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
References
[edit]- ^ "Michele Gillespie". Georgia Press. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ "Women in Leadership Speakers - Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart". www.stuartschool.org. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
- ^ HINTON, JOHN. "Wake Forest University president appoints Michele Gillespie as the university provost". Winston-Salem Journal. Retrieved 2022-10-31.
External links
[edit]- "Michele Gillespie named Dean of the College – Department of History". College.wfu.edu. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- "H-SAWH". H-net.org. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- "The University Press of Kentucky - About the Series". Kentuckypress.com. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
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