Katherine Mellen Charron
Associate Professor, Advisor
M.A. in Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph. D. in U.S. History, Yale University, 2005
2006-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill
2010 NC State University CHASS Outstanding Teacher Award
Interests
U.S. 20th Century, Women's History, African American History, Southern History
Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark: Winner of the 2010 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern Association of Women's Historians and the 2010 George C. Rogers Jr. Prize from the South Carolina Historical Society.
Recent Work & Publications
- Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009
- Recollections of My Slavery Days by William Henry Singleton. Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1999 ed. Charron, Katherine Mellen, and David S. Cecelski
- “Septima Poinsette Clark: The Evolution of an Educational Stateswoman.” in South Carolina Women Their Lives and Times, ed. edited by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, Valinda Littlefield, and Joan M. Johnson (UGA Press, forthcoming)
- “We've Come a Long Way: Septima Clark, the Warings and the Changing Civil Rights Movement.” in /Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America/, ed. Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard (New York: New York University Press, 2005) pp. 116-39
