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American historian and professor

Thavolia Glymph is an American historian and professor.

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She is Professor of History and African-American Studies at Duke University.^[1] She specializes in nineteenth-century US history, African-American history and women’s history, authoring Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household (2008) and The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (2020).

Elected the 140th president of the American Historical Association, she is the first Black woman to serve in that office.

Education

Glymph earned her Ph.D. in economic history from Purdue University in 1994.^[2] As an undergrad at Hampton University, professor Alice Davis sparked her interest in historical research.^[3] A fluent French speaker, Glymph had originally intended to major in European history or French, but an article by Purdue historian Harold Woodman on the economics of African