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David Cecelski

David Cecelski (Ph.D., Harvard) is an independent historian and writer who has taught at Duke University, UNC at Chapel Hill, and East Carolina University, and is affiliated with the Southern Oral History Program at UNC at Chapel Hill. A native of Craven County, in the Tidewater region of North Carolina, he edits the popular oral history series, "Listening to History," for the Raleigh News and Observer.

He also writes a blog for The North Carolina Folklife Institute (http://www.ncfolk.org/ncfood/) that explores the state's traditional cooking and foodways.

Books by David Cecelski

Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South (1994)

Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy (Coeditor; 1998)

A Historian’s Coast: Adventures Into the Tidewater Past (2000)

Recollections of My Slavery Days (Coeditor; 2000)

The Waterman’s Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina (2000)