{{short description|American historian}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2010}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Use American English|date=August 2025}}
'''Michele Gillespie''' is an American historian, editor, academic administrator and educator. She is the "Presidential Endowed Professor of Southern History" and former provost at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Walker |first=Cheryl V. |date=2022-04-05 |title=Michele Gillespie to succeed Rogan Kersh as Wake Forest University Provost |url=https://www.yesweekly.com/education/michele-gillespie-to-succeed-rogan-kersh-as-wake-forest-university-provost/article_7ca2f5d8-b50f-11ec-acd9-4769706ad7ed.html |access-date=2025-08-27 |website=YES! Weekly |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Her work specializes in American history, focusing on gender, race, class, and region in the American South.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michele Gillespie |url=https://ugapress.org/author/ |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Georgia Press |language=en-US}}</ref>
== About == Gillespie received a M.A. degree and Ph.D. from Princeton University, where she studied under the direction of James M. McPherson. She studied at Rice University in Houston, Texas as an undergraduate student, and has a B.A. degree.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=April 13, 2022 |title=Two Women Who Have Been Selected to Serve as Provosts |url=https://wiareport.com/2022/04/tow-women-who-have-been-selected-to-serve-as-provosts/ |access-date=2025-08-27 |website=Women In Academia Report |language=en-US}}</ref>
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.
In 2015, Gillespie was named dean of Wake Forest University's undergraduate college.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Women in Leadership Speakers - Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart |url=https://www.stuartschool.org/academics/ncgls/ncgls-at-stuart/women-in-leadership-speakers |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=www.stuartschool.org |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2022, she was appointed provost.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Hinton |first=John |date=5 April 2022 |title=Wake Forest University president appoints Michele Gillespie as the university provost |url=https://journalnow.com/news/local/wake-forest-university-president-appoints-michele-gillespie-as-the-university-provost/article_77ae36dc-b505-11ec-b190-939c67889c17.html |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=Winston-Salem Journal |language=en}}</ref> She returned to her professorship in 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Mark |date=2025-07-01 |title=A Message from Provost Gillespie |url=https://inside.wfu.edu/2025/07/a-message-from-provost-gillespie/ |access-date=2025-07-11 |website=Inside WFU |language=en}}</ref>
==Works== * ''Katharine and R.J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune and the Making of the New South'', (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012) * ''Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World'', Michele Gillespie and Robert M. Beachy, eds. (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007)<ref>{{Citation |last=Wellenreuther |first=Hermann |title=Review of Gillespie, Michele; Beachy, Robert, eds., Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World |date=October 2008 |type=review |url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=23218 |access-date=2025-08-27 |publisher=H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Review |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Faull |first=Katherine |date=2010 |title=Review of Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25700059 |journal=The Journal of Southern History |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=417–419 |issn=0022-4642}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Damrau |first=Peter |date=2008-06-01 |title=Book Review: German Studies Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World. Edited by Michele Gillespie and Robert Beachy. (European Expansion and Global Interaction, VII.) New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007. Pp. 267. £50.00 |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/00472441080380020607 |journal=Journal of European Studies |language=EN |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=204–205 |doi=10.1177/00472441080380020607 |issn=0047-2441|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ''Thomas Dixon and the Birth of Modern America'', Michele Gillespie and Randal Hall (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006) * ''Neither Lady Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South'', Michele Gillespie and Susanna Delfino (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002)<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bercaw |first=Nancy |date=October 2003 |title=Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South. Edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xix + 324 pp. Index, notes, tables. Cloth, 19.95. ISBN: cloth 0-807-82735-5; paper 0-807-85410-7. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/article/abs/neither-lady-nor-slave-working-women-of-the-old-south-edited-by-susanna-delfino-and-michele-gillespie-chapel-hill-university-of-north-carolina-press-2002-xix-324-pp-index-notes-tables-cloth-5500-paper-1995-isbn-cloth-0807827355-paper-0807854107/547D0F0235A7909767C511573F0C2AA0 |journal=Business History Review |language=en |volume=77 |issue=3 |pages=508–510 |doi=10.2307/30041197 |issn=2044-768X|url-access=subscription }}</ref> * ''Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860'', (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000) * ''Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women's History'', Michele Gillespie and Catherine Clinton, eds. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998)<ref>{{Citation |last=Phipps |first=Sheila |title=Review of Gillespie, Michele; Clinton, Catherine, eds., Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians |date=February 2000 |type=review |url=https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=3867 |access-date=2025-08-27 |publisher=H-SAWH, H-Review |language=en}}</ref> * ''The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early South'', Catherine Clinton and Michele Gillespie, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997)
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==External links== *{{cite web|url=http://college.wfu.edu/history/faculty-and-staff/faculty/michele-gillespie/|title=Michele Gillespie named Dean of the College – Department of History|website=College.wfu.edu|accessdate=11 August 2017}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.h-net.org/~sawh/sawh.htm|title=H-SAWH|website=H-net.org|accessdate=11 August 2017}} *{{cite web|url=http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/series_detail.php?seriesID=NDSH|title=The University Press of Kentucky - About the Series|website=Kentuckypress.com|accessdate=11 August 2017}}
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