FACULTY & STAFF

Dr. Warren Milteer, Jr.

Contact Information

Email: wemiltee@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 2114
Office Phone: 336-334-5992

Education

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., University of North Carolina at Greensboro
B.A., North Carolina State University

Academic Positions

Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2018-present
Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina, 2016-2018
Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech, 2014-2016

Research Interests

U.S. History, Early America, 19th-Century U.S., U.S. South, Free People of Color, Race, Slavery, Native America

Selected Publications

• Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021)
• North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715-1885 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020)
• "From Indians to Colored People: The Problem of Racial Categories and the Persistence of the Chowans in North Carolina," North Carolina Historical Review 93, no. 1 (January 2016): 28-57
• "Life in a Great Dismal Swamp Community: Free People of Color in Pre-Civil War Gates County, North Carolina," North Carolina Historical Review 91, no. 2 (April 2014): 144-170
• "The Strategies of Forbidden Love: Family across Racial Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century North Carolina," Journal of Social History 47, no. 3 (Spring 2014): 612-626

Courses Taught

• HIS 211 – United States History to 1865
• HIS 213 – The Slave Narratives
• HIS 213 – Sex, Race, and Family
• HIS 335 - The American Colonial Period, 1607-1763
• HIS 347 – History of North Carolina
• HIS 422/522 – Race in Native America
• HIS 701 - Colloquium in American History

Selected Awards and Honors

• 2014 and 2016 R.D.W. Connor Awards for best article in North Carolina Historical Review