PRESIDENT
David R. Goldfield
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
(704) 687-2184

David R. Goldfield is the Robert Lee Bailey Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in 1970. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers: Southern City and Region, 1607-1980 (1982); Black, White, and Southern: Race Relations and Culture from 1940 to the Present (1990); Still Fighting the Civil War: The American South and Southern History (2002); Southern Histories: Public, Personal, and Sacred (2003); and America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation (2011). 

VICE PRESIDENT
Peter Kolchin
University of Delaware
(302) 831-2371

Peter Kolchin is the Henry Clay Reed Professor of History at the University of Delaware, where he has taught since 1985. He earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1970. He is the author of First Freedom: The Responses of Alabama's Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction (1972); Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (1987), which won the Bancroft Prize, the OAH's Avery O. Craven Award, and the SHA's Charles Sydnor Award; American Slavery, 1619-1877 (1993); and A Sphinx on the Land: The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective (2003). He is currently completing a comparative study of emancipation in Russia and the United States, a sequel to Unfree Labor.

EDITOR
John B. Boles
Rice University
(713) 348-6039

John B. Boles is the William Pettus Hobby Professor of History at Rice University. In 2008, he celebrated his 25th year as Editor of the Journal of Southern History. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1969. His books include The Great Revival, 1787-1805: The Origins of the Southern Evangelical Mind (1972), Black Southerners, 1619-1869 (1983), The South Through Time: A History of an American Region (1999), and University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute (2007). Among his many edited works are Masters and Slaves in the House of the Lord: Race and Religion in the American South, 1740-1870 (1988), Interpreting Southern History: Historiographical Essays in Honor of Sanford W. Higginbotham (1987), coedited with Evelyn T. Nolen, and the Blackwell Companion to the American South.

John C. Inscoe is University Professor and Albert B. Saye Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985. He is the author of Mountain Masters: Slavery and the Sectional Crisis in Western North Carolina (1989), Race, War, and Remembrance in the Appalachian South (2008), Writing the South Through the Self (2011), and co-author of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: The Civil War in Western North Carolina (2000). He has edited or co-edited essay collections on Georgia race relations, James Oglethorpe, Appalachians and race in the 19th century, southern Unionists during the Civil War, and a festschrift in honor of Emory Thomas. He is also the editor of the on-line New Georgia Encyclopedia.

PAST PRESIDENT
Orville Vernon Burton
Clemson University
(217) 649-0608

Orville Vernon Burton is Director of the Clemson Cyberinstitute and Professor of History and Computer Science at Clemson University. From 2008-2010, he was the Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University, and before that he taught for thirty-four years at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he is Emeritus University Distinguished Teacher/Scholar, University Scholar, and Professor of History, African American Studies and Sociology. He is the author of more than two hundred articles and author or editor of sixteen books, including In My Father’s House Are Many Mansions:  Family and Community in Edgefield County, South Carolina (1985) and The Age of Lincoln (2007). 

2013 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR

Cynthia Kierner
George Mason University
(703) 993-1250

2013 MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE CHAIR

Diane Sommerville
Binghamton University
(607) 777-2251

2014 PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR

Laura Edwards
Duke University
(919) 668-1435

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