COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES

Dr. Loren Schweninger
Professor Emeritus of History
Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor

Contact Information

Email: llschwen@uncg.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972
M.A., University of Colorado, 1966
B.A., University of Colorado, 1962

Teaching Experience

Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2012
Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1986-2012
Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1978-86
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1973-78
Instructor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1971-73
Instructor, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1970-71

Research Interests

My research interests include Race and Slavery in the United States, African American History, the Nineteeth Century South, and Documentary History. For the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, launched in 1991, see http://library.uncg.edu/slavery_petitions).

Recent Publications

Families in Crisis in the Old South: Divorce, Slavery, and the Law (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012). Ed. and intro. Marguerite Howell and Nicole Mazgaj, asst. eds. The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Volume 2 Petitions to Southern County Courts, 1775-1867 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008). With John Hope Franklin, In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005). Ed. and intro., The Southern Debate Over Slavery: Volume 1 Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1778-1864, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001). With John Hope Franklin, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999; Paperback Edition, 2000). Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915 (Urbana: Illinois Press, 1990; Paperback Edition, 1997).

Awards and Honors

• OAH Distinguished Lecturer
• Research Grants for Race and Slavery Petitions Project: National Historical Publications and Records Commission [NHPRC], 1991-2005; Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, 1997-2005; National Endowment for the Humanities [NEH], 1997-2009
• Lincoln Prize, with John Hope Franklin, for Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation, 2000
• Research Excellence Award, UNCG, 2002
• Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden, 2007

Links of Interest

Race and Slavery Petitions Project