Jacquelyn Dowd Hall (born 1943) is an American historian and Julia Cherry Spruill Professor Emerita at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[3] She is the author of Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching; Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World (with James Leloudis, Robert R. Korstad, Mary Murphy, Lu Ann Jones, and Christopher R. Daly;)[4] and Sisters and Rebels: The Struggle for the Soul of America.
[9] In 1989, Hall was named Julia Cherry Spruill Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
[11] She also served as Mark W. Clark Distinguished Visiting Professor of History at The Citadel (2015), Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the California Institute of Technology (1995), director of the Duke University–University of North Carolina Center for Research on Women (1991–1994), and Ford Foundation Professor at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi (1987).
[citation needed] From 1970 to 1982, she was married to Bob Hall, who went on to be an organizer, investigative reporter, and long-time head of the Institute for Southern Studies and executive director of Democracy NC.