Theda Perdue

Research Interests

Professor Perdue's research focuses on the Native peoples of the southeastern United States. She is the author or co-author of nine books including Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (1998), which won the Julia Cherry Spruill Award for the best book in southern women's history and the James Mooney Prize for the best book in the anthropology of the South. More recently, she has published Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895 (2010) and, with co-author Michael D. Green, The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (2007) and North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction (2010). She is the editor or co-editor of six books including Sifters: The Lives of Native American Women (2001). She has held a number of fellowships including ones from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Newberry Library, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She has served as president of the Southern Association for Women Historians (1985-86) and the American Society for Ethnohistory (2001). She is a member of the executive board of the Organization of American Historians and president-elect of the Southern Historical Association.

Professor Perdue currently is working on a book on Indians in the segregated South.

Graduate Students Advised by Theda Perdue

• Mikaela Adams

• Julie Reed

Courses Offered (As Schedules Allow)

For current course listings, consult the Directory of Classes.

• HIST 110 -- Introduction to Native North America
• HIST 127-- United States History to 1865
• HIST 232 -- History of Native Americans in the Southeast
• HIST 234 -- Tribal Studies: Cherokees
• HIST 395 -- Trail of Tears: Removal of the Southern Indians
• HIST 576 -- Native American Women
• HIST 878 --Readings in Native American History
• HIST 948 -- Research in Native American History
• HNRS 31 -- The Native Peoples of North Carolina (for more information, visit the Honors Program website)