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Craig Thompson Friend is a historian and NCSU Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professor of history and public history at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1] He specializes in the social and cultural histories of the early American republic and Old South, with attention to issues of identity and commemoration, gender and masculinity, and death culture. His public history interests are in public memory, family and community histories, and the history of public history. He served as 2017-2018 President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR). [2]
Education
Friend earned a B.A. from Wake Forest University in 1983, an M.A. from Clemson University in 1990, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1995.[3]
Career
From 1995 to 2000, Friend was an assistant professor at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, before becoming an associate professor and editor of the Florida Historical Quarterly at the University of Central Florida in Orlando from 2000 to 2005.[4] He was hired as professor and Director of Public History at North Carolina State University in 2005.
Selected Works
- Becoming Lunsford Lane: The Lives of an American Aeneas (UNC, 2025)
- The Gendered Republic: Reimagining Identity in the New Nation, co-edited with Lorri Glover (Virginia, 2025)
- Camp Henry: The History of a Summer Camp in the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina (privately printed, 2022)
- Reinterpreting Southern Histories: Essays on Historiography (LSU, 2020), co-edited with Lorri Glover, recipient of the 2020 Jules and Francis Landry Award[5]
- A New History of Kentucky, 2nd ed. (Kentucky, 2018), co-authored with James C. Klotter
- Death and the American South (Cambridge, 2015), co-edited with Lorri Glover
- Kentucke’s Frontiers (Indiana, 2010), recipient of the 2011 Kentucky Governor’s Award[6]
- Family Values in the Old South (Florida, 2010), co-edited with Anya Jabour
- Southern Masculinity: Manhood in the South since Reconstruction (Georgia, 2009)
- Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West (Tennessee, 2005)
- Southern Manhood: Masculinity in the Old South (Georgia, 2004), co-edited with Lorri Glover
- The Buzzel About Kentuck: Settling the Promised Land (Kentucky, 1999)
- The Agrarian: Essays on Agricultural History, the South, and South Carolina, co-edited with John R. Wunder (Clemson, 1987)
References
- ^ Craig Thompson Friend | College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- ^ Professor Craig Friend Elected President of Society for Historians of the Early American Republic | Department of History
- ^ Craig Thompson Friend | College of Humanities and Social Sciences
- ^ About the FHQ | Florida Historical Quarterly at UCF
- ^ "Jules and Frances Landry Award". LSU Press. Retrieved 2026-01-14.
- ^ "History Awards | Kentucky Historical Society". KY Historical Society. Retrieved 2026-01-14.
External Links
Craig Thompson Friend | College of Humanities and Social Sciences
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