Much of Bill Chafe's professional scholarship reflects his long-term interest in issues of race and gender equality. Former dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Duke University, he is Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History and cofounder of the Duke-UNC Center for Research on Women, the Duke Center for the Study of Civil Rights and Race Relations, and the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. A past president of OAH, he is author of several books, including Civilities and Civil Rights (1979), which won the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and Never Stop Running: Allard Lowenstein and the Struggle to Save American Liberalism (1993) which won the Sidney Hillman Book Award. He is also coeditor of Remembering Jim Crow (2001) which won the Lillian Smith Book Award.

Lecture topics:

• Contemporary Feminism and Civil Rights
• Changing Gender Roles from 1920 to the Present
• From Roosevelt to Bush: American Politics in the Past Fifty Years
• From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: Laying a Foundation for Change
• The Challenges Facing Barack Obama: An Historical Perspective

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