David Cline

ABD Ph.D. Student
dpcline@email.unc.edu

Major Field: US History

Other Fields: Global History

Advisor: Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Research Interests: David Cline is interested in 20th century American social movements, public history, and oral history. He has an M.A. in U.S. History with a certificate in Public History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (2003) and is currently a Research Assistant with the Southern Oral History Program. He is the author of Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Birth Control and Abortion, 1961-1973 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), an edited collection of oral histories documenting pre-Roe v. Wade illegal abortion networks. (For more on the book, please visit www.creatingchoice.com.) His public history projects have included work on a National Public Radio documentary on the Korean War in 2002-2003 and a 2005 project to create roadside signage to document the Cherokee Trail of Tears. He was a recipient of the National Council on Public History's New Professional Award in 2004. In his doctoral thesis, Cline will explore the roles and legacies of the religious left in 20th century U.S. social change movements.