W. Fitzhugh Brundage
William Fitzhugh Brundage is an American historian, and William Umstead Distinguished Professor, at University of North Carolina. His works focus on white and black historical memory in the American South since the Civil War.Early life
Brundage graduated from the University of Chicago with an MA in 1984, and from Harvard University with an MA and Ph.D, in 1988.Career
Brundage taught at Queen's University at Kingston, and University of Florida. He teaches at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is the William Umstead Distinguished Professor in the History department.
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.
He is a Guggenheim Fellow.Works
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