Katherine Mellen Charron
Assistant Professor
M.A. in Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ph. D. in U.S. History, Yale University, 2005
2006-2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of the American South, UNC-Chapel Hill
247 Withers Hall
Phone: (919) 513-1420
Email: kmcharron@ncsu.edu
FALL 09 OFFICE HOURS:
T H 3:00-4:00 p.m. and by appointment
Interests
U.S. 20th Century, Women's History, African American History, Southern History
Publications
"Recollections of My Slavery Days," by William Henry Singleton. Co-edited with David S. Cecelski, NC Department of Cultural Resources, 1999.
"Septima Poinsette Clark: The Evolution of an Educational Stateswoman," in "South Carolina Women Their Lives and Times," edited by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler, Valinda Littlefield, and Joan M. Johnson, forthcoming, UGA Press.
Katherine Mellen Charron, "We've Come a Long Way: Septima Clark, the Warings and the Changing Civil Rights Movement," in /Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America/, Jeanne Theoharis and Komozi Woodard, eds., (New York: New York University Press, 2005): 116-39.
Katherine Mellen Charron, Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009.

