Awards & Honors
Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History Award
Scholarly Society Labor and Working-Class History Association · 2025Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Award
University Samuel DuBois Cook Society, Duke University · 2025President, American Historical Association
Scholarly Society American Historical Association · 2024American Academy of Arts and Sciences Member/Fellow
National American Academy of Arts and Sciences · 2024 More about this awardRogers Distinguished Fellow in Nineteenth Century American History
Scholarly Society Huntington Library, San Maniroo CA · 2023Tom Watson Brown Book Award
National The Society of Civil War Historians and the Watson-Brown Foundation · May 12, 2021 More about this awardJohn Nau Prize for best book in the American Civil War Era
National John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, University of Virginia · May 10, 2021 More about this awardThe Civil War and Reconstruction Book Award
National Organization of American Historians · April 20, 2021 Given annually by the OAH to the author of the most original book on the coming of the Civil War, the Civil War years, or the Era of Reconstruction.The Darlene Clark Hine Award
National Organization of American Historians · April 16, 2021 Given annually by the OAH to the author of the best book in African American women’s and gender historyThe Mary Nickliss Prize
National Organization of American Historians · April 16, 2021 Given annually for “the most original” book in U.S. Women's and/or Gender History (including North America and the Caribbean prior to 1776)Finalist, Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize
National Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History · January 2021 Awarded annually for the finest scholarly work in English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or a subject relating to their era.Joan Kelly Memorial Prize
Scholarly Society American Historical Association · 2021 More about this awardJulia Cherry Spruill Prize
Scholarly Society Southern Association for Women Historians · 2021Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History
University Duke University · 2021W.E.B. Du Bois Lecture
University Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University · 2021Finalist, Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize for the finest work on English on Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier,
National Established in 1990 by Lewis Lehrman and Richard Gilder, in partnership with Gettysburg College and Gabor Boritt, · 2021 More about this awardAlbert J Beveridge Award
Scholarly Society American Historical Association · 2021 More about this awardPresident, Southern Historical Association
Other Southern Historical Association · 2020Elected Fellow, Society of American Historians
Scholarly Society Society of American Historians · 2019 More about this awardThomas Langford Lectureship Award
University Office of the Provost, Duke University · 2017Fortenbaugh Memorial Lecture
Other The Civil War Institute and Gettysburg College · 2017Twentieth Annual Robert Smalls Lecture
University University of South Carolina · 2017George and Ann Richards Prize
Other Journal of the Civil War Era · 2014Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer
Scholarly Society Organization of American Historians · 2011Philip Taft Labor History Award for the outstanding book on American labor history
Scholarly Society School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR School) at Cornell University in cooperation with the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) · 2009Finalist, Frederick Douglass Book Prize for Out of the House of Bondage
National The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History · 2009In the News
Published February 14, 2025
Cook Society Awards: Five Campus & Community Leaders Who Built a ‘Beloved Community’
Published January 19, 2024
Duke Historian Thavolia Glymph Becomes 140th President of American Historical Association
Published February 12, 2021
History Professors Discuss the Evolution of Racism in America & How It Shaped Duke Experiences
Published December 12, 2017
At the National Constitution Center, Thavolia Glymph Celebrates the Anniversary of the 14th Amendment
Published March 22, 2017
At DC Landmark Museums, Cook Center Holds Conference on the Legacy of the Reconstruction Amendments
