W. Fitzhugh Brundage

W. Fitzhugh Brundage
Born	1959
Education	University of Chicago Harvard University
Occupation	Historian
Employer	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

William Fitzhugh Brundage is an American historian, and William Umstead Distinguished Professor, at University of North Carolina. His works focus on white and black historical memory in the American South since the Civil War.

Early life

Brundage graduated from the University of Chicago with an MA in 1984, and from Harvard University with an MA and Ph.D., in 1988.

Career

Brundage taught at Queen's University at Kingston, and University of Florida. He teaches at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is the William Umstead Distinguished Professor in the History department.

Brundage is the author and editor of a number of books. He won the Merle Curti Award from the Organization of American Historians in 1994 for Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880–1930.

He is a Guggenheim Fellow.

Works

• Lynching in the New South: Georgia and Virginia, 1880-1930. University of Illinois Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-252-06345-9.
• A Socialist Utopia in the New South: the Ruskin Colonies in Tennessee and Georgia, 1894-1901. University of Illinois Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-252-06548-4.
• Under Sentence of Death: Lynching in the South. UNC Press Books. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8078-4636-0.
• Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity. UNC Press Books. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8078-4886-9.
• The Southern Past: a Clash of Race and Memory. Harvard University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-674-01876-1.
• Editor (2003). Booker T. Washington and Black Progress : Up from Slavery 100 Years Later. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0813026741. OCLC 52079706. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
• Brundage, W. Fitzhugh (2018). Civilizing Torture : An American Tradition. Cambridge, Massachusetts. ISBN 9780674737662. OCLC 1028589333.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Introduction to Remembering Reconstruction: Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era, Louisiana State University Press, 2017

External links

• Official website
• UNC website
• Mississippi Department of Archives and History