Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall is Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emeritus at UNC-Chapel Hill and the founding director of UNC’s Southern Oral History Program. She is past president of the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association and founding past president of the Labor and Working Class History Association. Her books include Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching; Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (co-authored); and Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America (2019). Her articles include “Disorderly Women: Gender and Labor Militancy in the Appalachian South and “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past,” both in the Journal of American History. Her book and article awards include the Lillian Smith Award for Revolt Against Chivalry; the Binkley-Stephenson Award for “Disorderly Women”; the Albert J. Beveridge Award for Like a Family; and the 2020 PEN America/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Sisters and Rebels. In 1999, she received a National Humanities Medal from President William Jefferson Clinton. Most recently, she and her husband Robert R. Korstad were co-winners of the John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, presented by North Carolina Humanities to distinguished individuals who have strengthened the educational, cultural, and civic life of North Carolinians through their life’s work.