Glenda Gilmore
Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History
(Leave of absence, Academic Year 2010-11)
Office: HGS 222
Phone: (203) 432-1398
Email: glenda.gilmore@yale.edu
Links: Recent Publications
Glenda E. Gilmore is the Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies. She earned her PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her most recent book Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 was one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books of 2008, and the Washington Post’s Best Books of 2008. She is the editor of Who Were the Progressives? and co-edited Jumpin’ Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Her first book, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1986-1920, published in 1996, won Frederick Jackson Turner Award, the James A. Rawley Prize, the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, and the Heyman Prize. She is a Fellow of the Society of American Historians and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Radcliffe at Harvard University. She is at work on a history of the United States in the twentieth century with co-author Thomas Sugrue of the University of Pennsylvania and A Homeland of His Imagination: Romare Bearden’s Southern Odyssey in Time and Space. She received will be on leave for the academic year 2010-2011 on a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
A recipient of Yale's Graduate Mentoring Award, she offers graduate reading and research courses in 20th century political and social history, African American history after 1865, and the history of the South since 1865. She teaches undergraduate courses on African American history, the Progressive Era, and lectures on U.S. Political and Social History, 1900-1945.
