Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
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Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

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Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore is Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History Emerita at Yale University. Her newest book is Romare Bearden in the Homeland of His Imagination: An Artist's Reckoning with the South, published by UNC Press. Previous work includes These United States: The Making of Modern America, 1890 to the Present, co-authored with Thomas Sugrue, Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy, Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, Who Were the Progressives?, and Jumpin' Jim Crow: Southern Politics from Civil War to Civil Rights. Gender and Jim Crow won the James A. Rawley Prize in 1997 for the best book in race relations and the Frederick Jackson Turner for the best first book by an author, both given by the Organization of American Historians. It also won the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize, awarded by the Southern Association for Women Historians and Yale University's Heyman Prize. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950 (2008) was named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post and a Notable Book of 2008 by the American Library Association. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Bogliasco Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute, among others.
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