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Michele Gillespie is Kahle Family Professor of history at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem North Carolina. She specializes in American history focusing on gender race class and region in the American South. In 2005 she served as President of the Southern Association for Women Historians. She is series co-editor of New Directions in Southern History published by the University Press of Kentucky with William Link.Gillespie received her Ph.D.