Katherine Charron

Katherine Mellen Charron joined NC State’s History Department in the fall of 2007. She has taught classes on the civil rights movement, southern history, U.S. women’s history, the U.S. in the 20th century, American history and memory, and research/methods classes for history majors. Dr. Charron’s first monograph, Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark (UNC Press, 2009) won the 2010 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for the best book in southern women’s history, awarded by the Southern Association of Women’s Historians; and the 2010 George C. Rogers Jr. prize for best book in South Carolina history, awarded by the South Carolina Historcal Society.