Thavolia Glymph
| Title: | Associate Professor of African & African American Studies and History |
| Office Location: | Box 90717 |
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| Email Address: | thavolia@duke.edu |
| Web Page: | http://www.duke.edu/web/africanameric/faculty.html#Thavolia |
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.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Philip Taft Labor History Book Award, ILR School at Cornell University in Collaboration with Labor and Working Class History Association, May, 2009
Recent Publications
Books- Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press, June, 2008). 2009 Philip Taft Labor History Award; 2009 Finalist, Frederick Douglass Book Prize
- T. Glymph. ""'Liberty Dearly Bought': The Making of Civil War Memory in African American Communities in the South"." Time Longer than Rope: A Century of African American Activism (2003).
- T. Glymph. "Women in the Civil War." Blackwell Companion to American Women's History (2002).
- T. Glymph with Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Jospeh P. Reidy, and Leslie Rowland. ""Southern Louisiana"." Reconstructing Louisiana Pouisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series (2001). reprint of essay from A Documentary History of Emancipation, Ser. 1, Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 1985
- T. Glymph, with Ira Berlin, Steven F. Miller, Joseph P. reidy, Leslie S. Rowland, and Julie Saville. ""Southern Louisiana"." Reconstructing Louisiana Louisiana Purchase Bicentenial Series (2001). Reprint of essay from A Documentary History of Emancipation, Ser. 1, Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 1985