Luncheon Lecture
Oct 8, 2026 11:00 AM
Biography of Dr. David Cecelski
Historian and writer David Cecelski is the author of several award-winning books and hundreds of articles on the history of the North Carolina coast. Dr. Cecelski’s most recent book is The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slave’s Civil War, which was published by the University of North Carolina Press.
A graduate of Duke and Harvard, Dr. Cecelski has held distinguished professorships at Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and ECU. Among his recent honors, he has been awarded the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association’s Crittenton Award for lifetime achievement and the North Carolina Coastal Federation’s Pelican Award for lifetime achievement in “sharing our coast’s history and traditions.”
He is a native of the North Carolina coast and divides his time between Durham and the farm where he grew up in Carteret County. Throughout his career, his writing has focused passionately on telling stories from his home that illuminate American history more broadly.
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