Jacquelyn Hall

Julia Cherry Spruill Professor and Director of the Southern Oral History Program M.A. Columbia University, 1967 Ph.D. Columbia University, 1974

Research Interests

Prof. Hall's research interests include U.S. women's history, southern history, working-class history, oral history, and cultural/intellectual history. She served as president of the Organization of American Historians in 2003-04 and of the Southern Historical Association in 2001-02. She was also the founding president of the Labor and Working Class History Association. She was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 1999 for her efforts to deepen the nation's understanding of and engagement with the humanities, and in 1997, she received UNC's Distinguished Teaching Award for graduate teaching. In addition to her teaching and research, she directs the Southern Oral History Program, which supports students who are interested in oral history methods and sources. The Program is engaged in a broad range of research projects, including a new initiative on "The Long Civil Rights Movement: the South Since the 1960s," and in a variety of public outreach efforts. Her publications include Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women's Campaign Against Lynching (1979, 1993) and Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (1987, 2000), which she co-authored with James Leloudis, Robert Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Chris Daly. She is currently working on a collection of her articles and on two book projects: Writing a Way Home, about women writers and intellectuals and the refashioning of regional identity in the twentieth-century South; and a study of the social movements spawned by the civil rights campaigns of the 1960s and of the ideological, political, and structural forces that blunted their force.

Graduate Students Currently Advised by Jacquelyn Hall

• Willoughby Anderson
• David Cline
• O. Jennifer Dixon
• Jennifer Donnally
• Nora Doyle
• Joey Fink
• Elizabeth Gritter
• Anna Krome-Luhens
• Rachel Martin
• Kelly Morrow
• Robin Payne
• Aidan Smith
• Elizabeth Smith
• Katy Smith
• Jessica Wilkerson

Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

• HIST 127 -- United States History to 1865
• HIST 362 -- Women in American History
• HIST 568 -- Women in the South
• HIST 670 -- Introduction to Oral History
• HIST 562 -- Women's Oral History and Performance
• HIST 725 -- Selected Topics in the Comparative History of Women
• HIST 865 -- Readings in American Women's History
• HIST 890 -- Research Seminar on Women's History
• HIST 902 -- Ph.D. Research Seminar
• HIST 905 -- Historical Explanation and Research Design
• HIST 975 -- Research Seminar on Women's History

Contact

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Department of History
CB #3195, Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195
jhall@email.unc.edu