Arthur Roger Ekirch (born February 6, 1950) is University Distinguished Professor of history at
Virginia Tech in the United States.[1] He was a
Guggenheim fellow in 1998.
The son of intellectual historian Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. and Dorothy Gustafson,[2] Roger Ekirch is internationally known for his pioneering research into pre-industrial sleeping patterns that was first published in "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles"[3] and later in his award-winning 2005 book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past.[4][5][6][7]
Selected publications
Books
"Poor Carolina": Politics and society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776, University of North Carolina Press, 1981.
Arthur Roger Ekirch (born February 6, 1950) is University Distinguished Professor of history at
Virginia Tech in the United States.[1] He was a
Guggenheim fellow in 1998.
The son of intellectual historian Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. and Dorothy Gustafson,[2] Roger Ekirch is internationally known for his pioneering research into pre-industrial sleeping patterns that was first published in "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles"[3] and later in his award-winning 2005 book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past.[4][5][6][7]
Selected publications
Books
"Poor Carolina": Politics and society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776, University of North Carolina Press, 1981.