Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern Cultural History
Indians and Christianity in the New South
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On Wednesday, September 9 at 7pm in the University’s Nutt Auditorium, Theda Perdue of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present the 2015 Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern History, “Indians and Christianity in the New South.”
Theda Perdue is the Atlanta Distinguished Professor Emerita of Southern Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she taught American Indian history in the history, women’s studies, and American studies departments. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia. Perdue is author, co-author, or editor of sixteen books including Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, “Mixed Blood” Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South, and Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895. She has held fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Newberry Library, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Perdue has served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians, the American Society for Ethnohistory, and the Southern Historical Association. She is an inveterate traveler, especially by train, and in 2009 she and her husband went around the world by land and sea, a trip that included crossing Europe and Asia by train and the Pacific by freighter. Her current book project is on American Indians in the segregated South.
Publication Date
9-9-2015
Relational Format
presentation
Recommended Citation
Purdue, Theda and Adams, Mikaela, "Indians and Christianity in the New South" (2015). Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern Cultural History. 8.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/gilder-jordan/8
Comments
In addition to her lecture, Perdue also recorded an interview with Mikaela Adams, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi.