Thavolia Glymph, Peabody Family Distinguished Professor

Professor Glymph is currently not taking new graduate students.

Thavolia Glymph holds the Peabody Family Distinguished Professorship in History and is a professor of History and Law and Faculty Research Scholar at the Duke Population Research Institute (DUPRI) and president of the American Historical Association.  She is the author of The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) which won the Albert J. Beveridge Award, American Historical Association; the Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, American Historical Association, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, Southern Association for Women Historians; Tom Watson Brown Book Award awarded by the Society of Civil War Historians and the Watson-Brown Foundation; the 2021 John Nau Prize awarded by the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia; the 2021 Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award awarded by the Organization of American Historians; the 2021 Mary Nickliss Prize awarded by the Organization of American Historians; the 2021 Darlene Clark Hine Award awarded by the Organization of American Historians, and was a finalist for the 2021 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Her book, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge University Press, 2008) was a winner of the 2009 Philip Taft Book Prize and a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize. She is co-editor of two volumes of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 and numerous articles and essays. She is currently completing two book manuscripts, "African American Women and Children Refugees in the Civil War" supported by a National Institutes of Health grant and “Playing ‘Dixie’ in Egypt: A Transnational Transcript of Race, Nation, Empire and Citizenship."  Glymph held the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Duke Law School in 2015 and 2018. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society of American Historians, and the American Antiquarian Society and a past member of the Gettysburg Foundation and serves on several editorial boards. She is past president of the Southern Historical Association (2019-2020), an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, and held the 2023-24 Rogers Distinguished Fellow in Nineteenth Century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	224 Classroom Building, Box 90719, 1356 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:
Web Page:	https://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/faculty/thavolia

Teaching (Spring 2025):

• HISTORY 172S.01, GATEWAY: EYEWITNESS TO SLAVERY Synopsis

  Class Bldg 229, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

  (also cross-listed as AAAS 172S.01, ECON 122S.01)

Office Hours:

Tuesday, 2:00-4:00pm and by appointment

Education:

Ph.D.	Purdue University	1994
M.A.	Purdue University
B.A.	Hampton University

Specialties:

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

Research Interests: U.S. History, Slavery, Emancipation and Civil War, Southern Women

Keywords:

History • Muser Mentor

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

Recent Publications   (More 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]

Conferences Organized

• Organizer : Du Bois's Black Reconstruction: 75th Anniversary Symposium. November 30, 2011, Organizer : Du Bois's Black Reconstruction: 75th Anniversary Symposium, November 10-12, 2010