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Thavolia Glymph

Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History
History
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708
224 Classroom Building, Box 90719, 1356 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History · 2021 - Present History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of History · 2017 - Present History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies · 2023 - Present Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center · 2013 - Present Duke Population Research Center, Duke Population Research Institute

Previous Appointments & Affiliations


Professor of Law · 2021 - 2024 School of Law
Associate Chair of the Department of History · 2022 - 2023 History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of African and African American Studies · 2017 - 2017 African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of History · 2017 - 2017 History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies · 2008 - 2017 African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor in the Department of History · 2010 - 2017 History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Chair in the Department of History · 2014 - 2015 History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Interim Chairman · 2008 - 2009 Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of History · 2004 - 2009 History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of African and African-American Studies · 2000 - 2008 Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Assistant Professor of History · 2001 - 2003 History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Academic Positions Outside Duke


Board of Directors · 2020 - 2023 Gettysburg Foundation
Fellow · 2019 - Present Society of American Historians
Distinguished Lecturer · 2011 - 2023 Organization of American Historians
Elected Fellow · 2013 - Present American Antiquarian Society
Executive Council · 2018 - 2022 Southern Historical Association
Editorial Board, Journal of African American History · 2018 - 2021 Journal of African American History
Board of Editors · 2020 - 2023 Working Class in American History Book Series, University of Illinois Press
Nominating Committee · 2018 - 2023 Labor and Working-Class History Association
Board of Contributing Editors · 2018 - 2023 Labor: Studies in Working Class History
President · 2019 - 2020 Southern Historical Association
Editorial Board · 2018 - 2023 Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society
Advisory Council · 2001 - Present Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
Editorial Board · 1994 - Present Southern Cultures
Historians’ Council · 2012 - Present Gettysburg Foundation