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New Excellence Professors Named in History, Economics
 

Dr. Loren Schweninger (left), Dr. Bruce Caldwell

GREENSBORO – Two professors at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro who are widely acclaimed in their academic fields have been named Excellence Professors.

Appointment of the pair to the endowed professorships was approved by the UNCG Board of Trustees and was announced by UNCG Chancellor Patricia A. Sullivan. Funds for the professorships are made possible by the UNCG Excellence Foundation Inc., a long-time support organization for the institution. Appointed were:

•  Dr. Bruce J. Caldwell, professor, Department of Economics, Bryan School of Business and Economics, as the Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor;

 
• Dr. Loren Schweninger, professor, Department of History in the College of Arts and Sciences, as the Elizabeth Rosenthal Excellence Professor.

UNCG Provost Edward Uprichard had high praise for the pair. “At the heart of every great university is a quality faculty, and UNCG is no exception,” Uprichard said. “Our newest Excellence Professors, Drs. Loren Schweninger and Bruce Caldwell, have earned the respect and admiration of colleagues and students at UNCG and are recognized nationally and internationally for their academic achievements in research and teaching. Their contributions to the academic mission of UNCG have been and will continue to be significant.”

Schweninger delivered the annual Research Excellence Lecture, titled “In Search of the Promised Land: A Black Family and the Old South,” on Feb. 26.

A UNCG faculty member since 1978, Caldwell is an historian of economic thought. Early in his career he wrote principally about economic methodology, though his recent research has focused on the multi-faceted writings of Nobel Prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek. Caldwell is author of the book, “Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the 20th Century,” and is editor of six volumes. He is general editor of “The Collected Writings of F.A. Hayek,” a 20-volume collection of Hayek's work. Caldwell's intellectual biography of Hayek, titled “Hayek's Challenge,” will be published this summer. Caldwell serves on the editorial boards of six academic journals and has held fellowships at New York University, Cambridge University, and the London School of Economics. He is a past president of the History of Economics Society and has served as executive director of the International Network for Economic Method. From 1995 to 1999, he was the director of the UNCG Honors Program.

A faculty member at UNCG since 1971, Schweninger is a specialist in American and African-American history, with particular interest in slavery. He has written or edited five books on the topic, including “Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915,” which received the Rudwick Award. With historian John Hope Franklin, he wrote the book, “Plantation Rebels: Runaway Slaves, 1790-1860.” He holds the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. He is currently a member of the N.C. State Historical Records Advisory Board.  His slavery research has received national exposure in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, New York Times and in numerous other newspapers. He currently holds grants totaling more than $320,000 from a national foundation and two federal agencies to continue his research on slavery, “Race, Slavery and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures and County Courts, 1776-1867.”
 
 

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