Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Born
Jacquelyn Dowd

1943 (age 80–81)
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, U.S.
Spouses
Bob Hall
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(m. 1972; div. 1980)​
Robert Korstad
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(m. 1995)​
Academic background
EducationRhodes College (BA)
Columbia University (MA, PhD)
Doctoral advisorKenneth T. Jackson
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (born 1943) is an American historian and Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[1] Her scholarship and teaching forwarded the emergence of U.S. women's history in the 1960s and 1970s,[2] helped to inspire new research on Southern labor history and the long civil rights movement, and encouraged the use of oral history sources in historical research.[3] She is the author of Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching; Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (with James Leloudis, Robert R. Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher R. Daly;)[4] and Sisters and Rebels: The Struggle for the Soul of America.

  1. ^ [1] https://history.unc.edu/emeritus/jacquelyn-dowd-hall/
  2. ^ "Collection: Living U.S. Women's History Oral History Project oral histories | Smith College Finding Aids". findingaids.smith.edu. Retrieved 2020-09-22.
  3. ^ Jones, Jacqueline, ed. (2007). The Best American History Essays 2007. doi:10.1007/978-1-137-06439-4. ISBN 978-1-4039-7660-4.
  4. ^ HILD, MATTHEW; MERRITT, KERI LEIGH, eds. (2018-06-11). Reconsidering Southern Labor History. University Press of Florida. doi:10.2307/j.ctvx07731. ISBN 978-0-8130-5233-5.