Kenan Distinguished Professor
Email: peacock(@)unc.edu
Phone: (919) 843-9123
Fax: (919) 962-1613
Office: 303E Alumni Bldg.
Area of Interest:
Identities and Global Issues, Southeast Asia, Southeast USA.
Education:
B.A., Duke university, 1959.
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965.
Research & Activities:
Present Research: USA south and Southeast Asia in relation to history, memory and global issues.
Recent Honors: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995); Order of the Golden Fleece (1995); Thomas Jefferson Award (1995); Boaz award, American Anthropological Association (2002); Citizen of the World (2006); Massey Award for Service (2008); Johnson Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008).
Selected Publications:
2007 Identity Matters, Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict. Edited by James L. Peacock, Patricia M. Thornton, Patrick B. Inman. New York, Oxford, Berghahn Books.
2007 Grounded Globalism: How the US South Embraces the World. Athens University of Georgia Press.
2001 The Anthropological Lens. Revised Addition 2001. Cambridge University Press.