{"id":1317,"date":"2024-10-02T22:06:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/?page_id=1317"},"modified":"2024-10-02T23:19:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T23:19:29","slug":"david-moltke-hansen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/david-moltke-hansen\/","title":{"rendered":"Moltke-Hansen Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The annual <strong>Moltke-Hansen Feature<\/strong> recognizes the interdisciplinary approach of the St. George Tucker Society by featuring scholars with backgrounds and approaches from outside the discipline of history. The Society believes &#8212; as embodied by Dr. David Moltke-Hansen &#8212; that the U.S. South is best understood holistically by applying multiple analytical lenses, including but not limited to literature, geography, political science, material culture, and American Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. David Moltke-Hansen built and directed historical and cultural collections and programs interactively with learned societies in academic settings. His professional positions included: President, Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Curator then Director, Southern Historical Collection; founding Director, Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Archivist then Director, South Carolina Historical Society. Over his career, he oversaw the doubling of the holdings of these institutions he led.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His writing and editing roles included: Founding Co-Director, Cambridge Studies on the American South, Cambridge University Press; Founding Director, Simms Initiatives, South Caroliniana Library, University of South Carolina; Research Associate, Center for the Study of the American South, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over a period of three decades, Dr. Moltke-Hansen averaged a scholarly or professional essay\/article per year. He edited forums for journals on historians Charles Joyner, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Eugene Genovese; and oversaw the collection and selected publication of five volumes of Fox-Genovese&#8217;s fugitive writings. Upon focusing on editing and writing full time later in his career, he co-edited series on the American South and its most notable antebellum writer for Cambridge University Press and the University of South Carolina Press respectively &#8212; together having issued 90 volumes in print. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Moltke-Hansen Feature recognizes the interdisciplinary approach of the St. George Tucker Society by featuring scholars with backgrounds and approaches from outside the discipline of history. The Society believes &#8212; as embodied by Dr. David Moltke-Hansen &#8212; that the U.S. South is best understood holistically by applying multiple analytical lenses, including but not limited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1317","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1329,"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1317\/revisions\/1329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stgeorgetuckersociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}