The Twelfth Annual (2002) Averitt Lecturer, David R. Goldfield
The Twelfth Annual Averitt Lecturer will be Professor David R. Goldfield, who holds the Robert Lee Bailey Chair in History at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte. He has had a distinguished career as scholar and teacher in the United States and Europe.
Professor Goldfield received his B.A. degree from Brooklyn College (CUNY), and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. He joined the Department of History at UNC-Charlotte in 1982. He has lectured at universities around the world including most recently in Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Germany, and England.Ê Professor Goldfield's published works include Still Fighting the Civil War:Ê The American South and Southern History (2002),Ê The American Journey:Ê A History of the United StatesÊ (1998),Ê Region, Race, and Cities:Ê Interpreting the Urban South (1997),Ê The South for New Southerners (1991), Black, White, and Southern:Ê Race Relations and Southern Culture (1990), and Cotton Fields and Skyscrapers:Ê Southern City and Region, 1607-1980 (1982).Ê In addition, he coedited the two-volume Major Problems in the History of the American South (1990) and The City in Southern History:Ê The Growth of Urban Civilization in the South (1976).Ê Professor Goldfield was also a contributor to A Companion to the American South,Ê The Companion to Southern Literature, the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and the Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century, and has published articles in numerous journals, including the American Historical Review,Ê Journal of Southern History,Ê Journal of Urban History, Urban Affairs Quarterly, and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
Professor Goldfield has received numerous awards and honors including the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden; Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights, Outstanding Book Award; Mayflower Cup Award for Non-Fiction; and the United States Information Agency Academic Specialist Award for the Peopleâs Republic of China.Ê He is currently on several editorial and advisory boards including the Journal of Southern History, North Carolina Historical Review, and Planning Perspectives, and serves as the editor of the Journal of Urban History.ÊÊ He is also a consultant for the United States Department of Justiceâs Civil Rights Division, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the A & E Network, and the Museum of the New South.
