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Michele Gillespie

}} Michele Gillespie is the Presidential Endowed Professor of Southern History and former Provost at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She specializes in American history, focusing on gender, race, class, and region in the American South. 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. In 2022, she was appointed Provost. She returned to her professorship in 2025.

Gillespie received her 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. Provided by Wikipedia