Raymond Gavins
| Title: | Professor |
| Office Location: | 302 Carr Bldg |
| Office Phone: | 919 684 2508 |
| Email Address: | raymond.gavins@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD University of Virginia, 1970
- MA University of Virginia, 1967
- BA Virginia Union University, 1964
Research Interests
Research and teaching: Modern America, Afro-America, and American South
Awards/Recognitions
Fellowships: Ford, NEH, Rockefeller, Carter G. Woodson Institute, Whitney M. Young Jr., Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Co-recipient: Distinguished Oral History Project Award, Oral History Association, 1996; Carey McWilliams Book Award, 2002; Lillian Smith Book Award, 2002.
Co-director: "Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South" Research Project, Lyndhurst Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
Director of Graduate Studies, 1995-1998
Director of Senior Honors Thesis Program, 2005-present
- HISTORY 145A.01, Africans in america to 1865
Synopsis
- Frdl bldg 107, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
Recent Publications
Books- Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (New York: The New Press, 2001).
- The Meaning of Freedom: Black North Carolina in the Age of Jim Crow, 1880-1955 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007). Under Contract
- Raymond Gavins and Iris Tillman Hill, "Jim Crow" (, 2004): 1-72.
- "Diaspora Africans and Slavery." Africana Studies: A Survey of Africa and the African Diaspora, 3rd ed, 91-108. (2005).
- "Within the Shadow of Jim Crow: Black Struggles for Education and Liberation in North Carolina." From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Explorations of Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy (2004).