W. Fitzhugh Brundage

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W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Born1959
Education University of Chicago
Harvard University
OccupationHistorian
Employer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

William Fitzhugh Brundage is an American historian, and William Umstead Distinguished Professor, at University of North Carolina. [1] His works focus on white and black historical memory in the American South since the Civil War. [2]

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Early life

Brundage graduated from the University of Chicago with an MA in 1984, [3] and from Harvard University with an MA and Ph.D., in 1988. [4]

Career

Brundage taught at Queen's University at Kingston, and University of Florida. [3] He teaches at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is the William Umstead Distinguished Professor in the History department. [4]

Brundage is the author and editor of a number of books. He won the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians in 1994 for Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930. [5]

He is a Guggenheim Fellow. [6] [7]

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References

  1. "W. Fitzhugh Brundage | Department of History".
  2. "Race and Cultural Landscapes: A Conversation with W. Fitzhugh Brundage". The Cultural Landscape Foundation. 11 November 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Curriculum Vitae of W. Fitzhugh Brundage" (PDF). University of North Carolina. Retrieved 2018-12-02.
  4. 1 2 "W. Fitzhugh Brundage". Department of History. UNC College of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  5. "Merle Curti Award Winners". Organization of American Historians. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  6. "William Brundage - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on 2011-04-16.
  7. http://college.unc.edu/features/april2011/article.2011-04-15.6199353678 [ dead link ]