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Alice Mary Baldwin Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History
Office Location: | 224 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708 | Office Phone: | (919) 684-3014 | Email Address: |
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Education:
- Ph.D. Columbia University 1971
- M.A. Columbia University 1966
- B.A. Harvard University 1962
- Specialties:
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Race and Ethnicity
History Politics, Public Life and Governance Gender
- Research Interests: 20th Century, Women, Race, Social, Oral
Much of Dean Chafe's professional scholarship reflects
his long-term interest in issue of race and gender
equality. His dissertation and first book focused on the
changing social and economic roles of American
women in the fifty years after the woman suffrage
amendment. Subsequent books compared the patterns
of race and gender discrimination in America. His book
on the origins of the sit-in movement in North Carolina
helped to re-orient scholarship on civil rights toward
social history and community studies. Chafe has written
two books on the history of post-World War II America,
and a biography of the liberal crusader Allard
Lowenstein. The author of eight books overall, he has
received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (1981) for
Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina
and the Black Struggle for Freedom (1980) and the
Sidney Hillman book award (1994) for Never Stop
Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save
American Liberalism (1993).
- Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications
- W.H. Chafe. The Rise and Fall of the American Century: The United States from 1890 to 2008. 2008.
- W.H. Chafe. Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America. Harvard University Press,
2005: 430. [abs]
- W.H. Chafe. American Liberalism inthe 20th Century. Columbia University Press, 2003. [abs]
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