Michele Gillespie is Kahle Family Associate Professor of history

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

 at Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university in the U.S. state of North Carolina, founded in 1834. The university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital. The Reynolda Campus, the university's main campus, is...

 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

. She specializes in American history, focusing on gender

Gender

Gender is a range of characteristics used to distinguish between males and females, particularly in the cases of men and women and the masculine and feminine attributes assigned to them. Depending on the context, the discriminating characteristics vary from sex to social role to gender identity...

, race, class

Social class

Social classes are economic or cultural arrangements of groups in society. Class is an essential object of analysis for sociologists, political scientists, economists, anthropologists and social historians. In the social sciences, social class is often discussed in terms of 'social stratification'...

, and region in the American South from 1790-1920. Gillespie. In 2005, Gillespie served as President of the Southern Association for Women Historians.

Gillespie received her Ph.D. from Princeton University

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

, where she studied under the direction of James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom, his most famous book...

. She studied at Rice University in Houston, Texas as an undergraduate student.

Dr.Gillespie now works at Wake Forest University as the Associate Provost for Academic Initiatives.

Works

• Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000).
• The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Catherine Clinton
  Catherine Clinton
  Catherine Clinton is Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast. She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South....
  
   and Michele Gillespie, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
• Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World, Michele Gillespie and Robert M. Beachy
  Robert M. Beachy
  Robert Beachy is associate professor of history at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1998...
  
  , eds. (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007)
• Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women's History, Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton
  Catherine Clinton
  Catherine Clinton is Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast. She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South....
  
  , eds. (Columbia:University of Missouri Press, 1998).

External links

• Academic homepage at Wake Forest University's site