Thavolia Glymph Explained

Alma Mater:Hampton University
Purdue University
Occupation:Historian, professor
Employer:Duke University
Notable Works:Out of the House of Bondage
Professor of History and African-American Studies

Thavolia Glymph is an American historian and professor. She is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Duke University.[1] She specializes in nineteenth-century US history, African-American history and women’s history, authoring Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008) and The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (2020). Elected the 140th president of the American Historical Association, she is the first Black woman to serve in that office.

Education

Glymph earned her Ph.D. in economic history from Purdue University in 1994.[2] As an undergrad at Hampton University, professor Alice Davis sparked her interest in historical research. A fluent French speaker, Glymph had originally intended to major in European history or French, but an article by Purdue historian Harold Woodman on the economics of African-American slavery caused her to pursue graduate work with Woodman.[3]

Career

Glymph's 2008 book, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, won the Philip Taft Labor History Book Award[4] and was finalist for the Jefferson Davis Award for outstanding narrative work on the period of the Confederacy[5] and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition.[6] Susan-Mary Grant recommended Out of the House of Bondage as the book in the field of nineteenth-century American history that everyone should read.[7]

In 2014, Glymph won the George and Ann Richards Prize for best article published in The Journal of the Civil War Era in 2013; her article, "Rose's War and the Gendered Politics of Slave Insurgency in the Civil War" described Rose's role as one of the leaders of a slave revolt.[8]

Her 2020 book The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation won the Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians[9] and the Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association.[10]

Glymph was elected president of the American Historical Association for the term beginning in 2024. The 140th president, she is the first Black woman to hold that post.[11] [12]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Thavolia Glymph Duke University History Department. history.duke.edu. Duke University. 15 February 2018. en.
  2. Web site: People DUPRI. dupri.duke.edu. Duke University. 15 February 2018. en.
  3. News: Dr. Thavolia Glymph. 15 February 2018. The Urban News. 14 January 2015.
  4. Web site: Past Award Recipients The ILR School Cornell University. www.ilr.cornell.edu. Cornell ILR School. 15 February 2018. en.
  5. Endnotes. Civil War History. 2009. 55. 4. 538–541. 10.1353/cwh.0.0119. en. 1533-6271.
  6. Web site: 2009 Frederick Douglass Prize The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. glc.yale.edu. 9 July 2015 . Yale University. 15 February 2018. en.
  7. Interview. On the Spot: Susan-Mary Grant. History Today. 70. 9. September 2020.
  8. News: Sinclair. Donna. ANN: Thavolia Glymph has won the George and Ann Richards Prize H-War H-Net. 15 February 2018. networks.h-net.org. April 10, 2014. en.
  9. Web site: Thavolia Glymph wins multiple awards for her book, "The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom and Nation". history.duke.edu. April 21, 2021. May 18, 2021.
  10. Web site: AHA Announces 2021 Prize Winners. History News Network. October 18, 2021. November 11, 2021.
  11. Web site: Grigoli . Renato . 2023-01-16 . Deeply Rooted: Meet Thavolia Glymph, the 2024 AHA President . 2024-02-03 . Perspectives on History . en.
  12. Web site: 2024-01-29 . The First Black Woman to Serve as President of the American Historical Association . 2024-02-03 . The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education . en-US . Online . 2326-6023.
  13. Towers. Frank. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (review). Labour / Le Travail. 2010. 66. 1. 263–266. 15 February 2018. en. 1911-4842.
  14. Graham. Sean. Thavolia Glymph, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Cambridge; New York: CUP, 2008). Past Imperfect. 2009. 15. 450–455. 10.21971/P7TP45. 15 February 2018. free.
  15. Millward. Jessica. Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. The Journal of American History. 1 June 2009. 96. 1. 233. 10.2307/27694804. 15 February 2018. en. 0021-8723. 27694804.