When:
September 9, 2015 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
2015-09-09T19:00:00-05:00
2015-09-09T20:30:00-05:00
Where:
University of Mississippi
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Becca Walton

On Wednesday, September 9 at 7pm, Theda Perdue of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present the 2015 Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern History. Her talk is entitled “Indians and Christianity in the New South.” Location TBD.

perdueWEB-1Theda Perdue is Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the Native peoples of the southeastern United States. She is the author or co-author of nine books including Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 17001835 (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. More recently, she has published Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895 (2010) and, with co-author Michael D. Green, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (2007) and North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction (2010). She is the editor or co-editor of six books including Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives (2001). She 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). She is a member of the executive board of the Organization of American Historians and past president of the Southern Historical Association.

Organized through the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the African American Studies Program, Center for Civil War Research, and the Department of History, the Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series is made possible through the generosity of the Gilder Foundation, Inc.  The series honors Richard Gilder of New York and his family, as well as his friends, Dan and Lou Jordan of Virginia.