Michele Gillespie

Michele Gillespie is an American historian, editor, academic administrator and educator. She is the "Presidential Endowed Professor of Southern History" and former provost at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.[1][2] Her work specializes in American history, focusing on gender, race, class, and region in the American South.[3]

About

Gillespie received a M.A. degree and Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she studied under the direction of James M. McPherson. She studied at Rice University in Houston, Texas as an undergraduate student, and has a B.A. degree.[1][4]

In 2005, she served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She is series co-editor of New Directions in Southern History, published by the University Press of Kentucky, with William Link.

In 2015, Gillespie was named dean of Wake Forest University's undergraduate college.[5] In 2022, she was appointed provost.[2] She returned to her professorship in 2025.[6]

Works

  • Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune and the Making of the New South, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012)
  • Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World, Michele Gillespie and Robert M. Beachy, eds. (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007)[7][8][9]
  • Thomas Dixon and the Birth of Modern America, Michele Gillespie and Randal Hall (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006)
  • Neither Lady Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South, Michele Gillespie and Susanna Delfino (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)[10]
  • Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000)
  • Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women's History, Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton, eds. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998)[11]
  • The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South, Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)

References

  1. ^ a b Walker, Cheryl V. (5 April 2022). "Michele Gillespie to succeed Rogan Kersh as Wake Forest University Provost". YES! Weekly. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  2. ^ a b Hinton, John (5 April 2022). "Wake Forest University president appoints Michele Gillespie as the university provost". Winston-Salem Journal. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  3. ^ "Michele Gillespie". Georgia Press. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Two Women Who Have Been Selected to Serve as Provosts". Women In Academia Report. 13 April 2022. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
  5. ^ "Women in Leadership Speakers - Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart". www.stuartschool.org. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  6. ^ Anderson, Mark (1 July 2025). "A Message from Provost Gillespie". Inside WFU. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
  7. ^ Wellenreuther, Hermann (October 2008), Review of Gillespie, Michele; Beachy, Robert, eds., Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World (review), H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Review, retrieved 27 August 2025
  8. ^ Faull, Katherine (2010). "Review of Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World". The Journal of Southern History. 76 (2): 417–419. ISSN 0022-4642.
  9. ^ Damrau, Peter (1 June 2008). "Book Review: German Studies Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World. Edited by Michele Gillespie and Robert Beachy. (European Expansion and Global Interaction, VII.) New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. Pp. 267. £50.00". Journal of European Studies. 38 (2): 204–205. doi:10.1177/00472441080380020607. ISSN 0047-2441.
  10. ^ Bercaw, Nancy (October 2003). "Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South. Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xix + 324 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, 19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82735-5; paper 0-807-85410-7". Business History Review. 77 (3): 508–510. doi:10.2307/30041197. ISSN 2044-768X.
  11. ^ Phipps, Sheila (February 2000), Review of Gillespie, Michele; Clinton, Catherine, eds., Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians (review), H-SAWH, H-Review, retrieved 27 August 2025


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