Thavolia Glymph, Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and History

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Box 90717
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/faculty.html#Thavolia

Teaching (Spring 2012):

• HISTORY 195S.05, RISE AND FALL OF THE OLD SOUTH Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 216, M 03:05 PM-05:30 PM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 199S.03)

• AAAS 399S.01, SLAVERY & EMANCIPATION Synopsis

  Friedl Bdg 240, W 06:00 PM-08:30 PM

Specialties:

Race and Ethnicity
Politics, Public Life and Governance
Military History
Labor and Working Class History
Gender

Research Interests:

Dr. Glymph is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and History. Professor Glymph is the author of several essays on slavery, emancipation and the U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction, economic history, and southern women . She is co-editor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1861, ser. 1, vol. 1; The Documentary of History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 3; The Wartime Genesis of Free Labor: The Lower South and Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy. Her most recently published work is Out Of the House of Bondage: The transformation of the Plantation Household (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). Her current writing and research focuses on women in the Civil War, the geography of the plantation household and Civil War veterans in Egypt.

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Stephanie Jones Rogers  
• Eric Weber  
• Philip F. Rubio  
• Alisa Y. Harrison  
• Amy Johnson  
• Lydia Henry  
• Alisa Y. Harrison  
• Philip F. Rubio  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. "Noncombatant Military Laborers in the Civil War," forthcoming, OAH Magazine of History (2012)
2. with Nina Silber, "Women Amidst War", in The Civil War Remembered (2011), Walsworth Pub.
3. "I'se Mrs. Tatum Now': Black and White Women and the Meaning of Freedom,", Phillis, vol. 1 no. 1 (2011), pp. 24-32
4. Anthony E. Kaye, Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (University of North Carolina Press, 2007), Labor: Studies in Working Class-History of the Americas (2010)
5. Frances Smith Foster, ed., Love and Marriage in Early African America (2008), Journal of African American History, vol. 95 (2010), pp. 431-33

Conferences Organized

• Du Bois's Black Reconstruction: 75th Anniversary Symposium, Organizer, November 10-12, 2010