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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Director
Professor 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. 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.
David P. Cline
Associate Director
David is an oral historian and author of Creating Choice: A Community Responds to the Need for Abortion and Birth Control, 1961-1973, published in 2006. He holds an M.A. in U.S. History with a certificate in Public History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and is completing doctoral work at UNC-CH. David worked as a journalist and publicist for a dozen years, and 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 document the Cherokee Trail of Tears. He was a recipient of the National Council on Public History's New Professional Award in 2004. His current research concerns the history of the "religious left" in 20th century U.S. social change movements.
Elizabeth Millwood
Outreach Coordinator
Beth, who holds a B.A. and an M.A. from Oakland University, has worked for the SOHP since 1997. A specialist in oral history methods, Beth has run training programs for aspiring oral historians around the state and the region, and has spoken on oral history techniques at numerous professional gatherings. She was the 2004 recipient of the Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award, given by UNC-CH for inspiring and practical work in the North Carolina community.
Seth Kotch
Digital Coordinator
A graduate of Columbia University (B.A.) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (M.A. and Ph.D.), Seth is a historian of the American South who specializes in crime and punishment. He has worked for the SOHP since arriving at UNC-CH in 2003. He worked on the Oral Histories of the American South project, a digitization effort in partnership with Documenting the American South, and currently works on The Long Civil Rights Publishing Project with a number of partners around the university. He led planning for the SOHP's Spring 2009 conference, The Long Civil Rights Movement: Histories, Politics, Memories.