Research Interests for Thavolia Glymph

Thavolia Glymph is Associate Professor of history in the Department of History and the Department of African & African American Studies at Duke University and holds a Faculty Affiliate appointment in the Duke Population Research Institute and the Duke Program in Women’s Studies. Glymph is a historian of the nineteenth century U.S. South whose research focuses on questions of labor, gender, race, slavery, emancipation, war and society, and, broadly, political economy. Her publications include “Rose’s War and the Gendered Politics of a Slave Insurgency in the Civil War,” recipient of the George and Ann Richards Prize for the best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2013 and Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge, 2008), co-winner of the Philip Taft Book Prize and a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. She is also a co-editor two volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 1, vol. 1 and ser. 1 vol. 3 and is currently currently completing two book projects: Women at War: Race, Gender, and Power in the American Civil War to be published by the University of North Carolina Press and African American Women and Children Refugees in the Civil War. Glymph has received research support from the National Institutes of Health for her work on Civil War refugees and was the 2015 John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Duke Law School. She is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer and a member of the American Antiquarian Society.

Keywords:

History, Muser Mentor

Recent Publications

1. Glymph, T, “I’m a Radical Black Girl”: Black Women Unionists and the Politics of Civil War History, in Unequal Sisters: A Revolutionary Reader in U.S. Women’s History: Fifth Edition (January, 2023), pp. 399-418, ISBN 9780367514723 [doi] [abs]
2. Glymph, T, She Wears the Flag of Our Country” Women, Nation, and War, Journal of the Civil War Era, vol. 12 no. 3 (September, 2022), pp. 305-320 [doi]
3. Glymph, T; Harders, L, "There is No Silence in the Archive, There are Silencers" Thavolia Glymph in Conversation about Gerda Lerner with Levke Harders, Osterreichische Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaften, vol. 33 no. 2 (January, 2022), pp. 159-170 [doi]
4. Glymph, T, The Women s Fight : A Coda, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, vol. 18 no. 2 (May, 2021), pp. 83-91 [doi]
5. Glymph, T, Crying for Home, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, vol. 17 no. 3 (September, 2020), pp. 113-116 [doi]