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Theda Perdue

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Atlanta Distinguished Term
Professor of Southern Culture
M.A. University of Georgia, 1974
Ph.D. University of Georgia, 1976

 

 

Research Interests

Professor Perdue's research focuses on the Native peoples of the southeastern United States. She is the author or co-author of seven books including Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (1998), which won the Julia Cherry Spruill Award for the best book in southern women's history and the James Mooney Prize for the best book in the anthropology of the South. More recently, she has published "Mixed Blood" Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South (2003) and, with co-author Michael D. Green, The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast (2001) and The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (2007). She is the editor or co-editor of six books including Sifters: The Lives of Native American Women (2001). She has held a number of fellowships including ones from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Newberry Library, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She has served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians (1985-86) and the American Society for Ethnohistory (2001).


Professor Perdue currently has three projects underway: a book on Indians in the segregated South, the Averitt lectures on race and the Cotton States Exposition which will be published as a book, and, with Michael D. Green, A Very Short Introduction to North American Indians.

View a web version of Prof. Perdue's curriculum vitae (in PDF).

Graduate Students Advised by Theda Perdue

Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

  • HIST 110 -- Introduction to Native North America
  • HIST 127-- United States History to 1865
  • HIST 232 -- History of Native Americans in the Southeast
  • HIST 234 -- Tribal Studies: Cherokees
  • HIST 395 -- Trail of Tears: Removal of the Southern Indians
  • HIST 576 -- Native American Women
  • HIST 878 --Readings in Native American History
  • HIST 948 -- Research in Native American History
  • HNRS 31 -- The Native Peoples of North Carolina (for more information, visit the Honors Program website)

Contact

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of History

CB #3195, Hamilton Hall

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3195

Phone: (919) 962-8081 or for 2003-2004, (919) 549-0668

tperdue@email.unc.edu
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