Theda Perdue is the Atlanta Distinguished Term Professor of Southern Culture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her research focuses on the Native peoples of the southeastern United States. Perdue is the author or co-author of seven books, including “Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835” (1998), which won the Julia Cherry Spruill Award for the best book in southern women's history and the James Mooney Prize for the best book in the anthropology of the South. Dr. Perdue has held a number of fellowships including ones from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Newberry Library, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She has served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians (1985-86) and the American Society for Ethnohistory (2001). Perdue currently has three projects underway: a book on Indians in the segregated South; the Averitt lectures on race and the Cotton States Exposition, which will be published as “Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition” (2010); and, with Michael D. Green, “A Very Short Introduction to North American Indians.”

 

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