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Michael V.C. Alexander
A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Michael Alfred Van Cleave Alexander received an AB in history from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1960 shortly after being inducted into Ph...view moreA native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Michael Alfred Van Cleave Alexander received an AB in history from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1960 shortly after being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Alpha Theta (national history honorary society). He then received a graduate fellowship at UNC and earned his MA and PhD degrees there. He twice did extensive research in England, first on a Fulbright-Hays Grant in 1964–1965 and then on a Junior Humanists’ Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1970–1971. Meanwhile in 1967, he obtained a tenure-track position at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg where he taught until his early retirement in 2001. In 1971 he married Ann Barton Field of Richmond, Virginia, who received a PhD in history from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, in 1974. They have two sons: Mike, who’s a financial analyst and the senior vice president of his company in New York City, and Peter, who, after receiving a PhD in biochemistry at Texas Southwestern Medical University in Dallas, accepted a two-year postdoctoral research grant from Duke University where his wife Krista is a resident at Duke Hospital.view less
Books by Michael V.C. Alexander
Southern Families: Their Friends, Servants, Rivals, and Affairs 1901–1911