Michele Gillespie Explained

Michele Gillespie is the Provost and Presidential Endowed Professor of Southern History at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She specializes in American history, focusing on gender, race, class, and region in the American South.^[1] In 2005, she served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She is series co-editor of New Directions in Southern History, published by the University Press of Kentucky, with William Link.

In 2015, Gillespie was named Dean of Wake Forest University's undergraduate college.^[2] In 2022, she was appointed Provost.^[3]

Gillespie received her Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she studied under the direction of James M. McPherson. She studied at Rice University in Houston, Texas as an undergraduate student.

Works

• Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune and the Making of the New South, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012)
• Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World, Michele Gillespie and Robert M. Beachy, eds. (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007)
• Thomas Dixon and the Birth of Modern America, Michele Gillespie and Randal Hall (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006)
• Neither Lady Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, Michele Gillespie and Susanna Delfino (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)
• Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000)
• Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women's History, Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton, eds. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998).
• The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

External links

• Web site: Michele Gillespie named Dean of the College – Department of History. College.wfu.edu. 11 August 2017.
• Web site: H-SAWH. H-net.org. 11 August 2017.
• Web site: The University Press of Kentucky - About the Series. Kentuckypress.com. 11 August 2017.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Michele Gillespie . 2022-10-31 . Georgia Press . en-US.
2. Web site: Women in Leadership Speakers - Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart . 2022-10-31 . www.stuartschool.org . en-US.
3. Web site: HINTON . JOHN . Wake Forest University president appoints Michele Gillespie as the university provost . 2022-10-31 . Winston-Salem Journal . en.