Thavolia Glymph Wins 2025 Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History Award

Thavolia Glymph, Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History, was honored with the Distinguished Service to Labor and Working-Class History Award from the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) at its annual meeting in June. 

She is also the recipient of the 2025 Raymond Gavins Distinguished Faculty Award from the Samuel DuBois Cook Society at Duke University. 

Glymph has served as President of the American Historical Association (2024), President of the Southern Historical Association (2019-2020) and is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Her book, “The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation” (University of North Carolina Press, 2020), won numerous awards including the American Historical Association’s Albert J. Beveridge Award and Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, and the Julia Cherry Spruill Prize from the Southern Association for Women Historians. “Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household” (Cambridge University Press, 2008) was a winner of the 2009 Philip Taft Book Prize and a finalist for the Frederick Douglass Prize.  

Glymph held the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Duke Law School in 2015 and 2018. She is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer, an elected member of the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society, and a past member of the Gettysburg Foundation.  

Thavolia Glymph also holds appointments as Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies and Faculty Research Scholar at the Duke Population Research Institute (DUPRI).