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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is the Julia Cherry Spruill Professor and Director of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Background

Dowd earned her M.A. at Columbia University in 1967 and her Ph.D. at Columbia University 1974. Her research includes United States Women's History, Southern History, working class history, oral history, and cultural/intellectual history. Dowd was the 2003-2004 President of the Organization of American Historians as well as the 2001-2002 President of the Southern Historical Association. She was the 1999 recipient of the National Humanities Medal and was awarded the University of North Carolina's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1997.

Publications

Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Arnes and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching (1979, 1993)

Like a Family': The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (1987, 2000) with James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher Daly

References

(1) The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,"Jacquelyn Dowd Hall," Department of History, http://history.unc.edu/faculty/hall.html (accessed May 3, 2009).