2024 Faculty Election
Harry Watson
Running for: Division 18. Retired Faculty: Faculty Council
- Professor Emeritus
- History, College of Arts and Sciences
- Appointed: 1976
- Ph.D., Nothwestern University, 1976
UNC Service
Faculty Council, 2001-2004, 2012-2015, 2018-2021, and 2021-2023
Director, Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS), 1999-2012
Editor, Southern Cultures, quarterly journal of CSAS, 1993-2019
Member, History Department Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Committee leadership and membership in numerous faculty searches and promotion reviews
Candidate Statement
Harry Watson is professor emeritus of History, focusing his research on U.S. history between the Revolution and the Civil War. He joined the faculty in 1976 and served as director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South for 13 years and editor of its quarterly journal, Southern Cultures, for almost 30 years. He also has been president of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic and the Historical Society of North Carolina; a member of the Board of Advisers of the North Carolina Civil War History Center; and a member of the N.C. Historical Commission.
