Susanna Lee (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Susanna Lee teaches nineteenth-century American history at North Carolina State University. She earned her BA in history at the University of California, San Diego and her MA and PhD in history from the University of Virginia. Her book Claiming the Union (Cambridge University Press) focuses on Southern citizenship after the Civil War. She is currently working on a book on the US-Dakota War entitled Unsettling Claims. In addition to her teaching and research, Lee has served in a variety of leadership positions at NC State, including as director of graduate programs in the History Department, on the administrative board of the Graduate School, as interim assistant dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as interim associate dean for interdisciplinary affairs and partnerships in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Selected Publications

• Lee, Susanna. “Freedom! A Promise Disrupted: North Carolina, 1862–1901.” Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of History, 2019.
• Lee, Susanna. Claiming the Union: Citizenship in the Post-Civil War South. Cambridge Studies on the American South. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.