William H. Chafe
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Ph.D. (Columbia University). Professor at the Department of History, Duke University, where he is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. Main scholarly interest: issue of race and gender equality.
His dissertation and first book focused on the changing social and economic roles of American women in the fifty years after the woman suffrage amendment. Subsequent books compared the patterns of race and gender discrimination in America. His book on the origins of the sit-in movement in North Carolina helped to re-orient scholarship on civil rights toward social history and community studies. He has written two books on the history of post-World War II America, and a biography of the liberal crusader Allard Lowenstein. The author of eight books overall, he has received the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (1981) for Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (1980) and the Sidney Hillman book award (1994) for Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1993). Recent Publications include Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America, Harvard University Press, 2005 and American Liberalism in the 20th Century. Columbia University Press, 2003.
