Peter Wallenstein, Professor (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins, 1973)

Areas of Specialization: U.S. South, Virginia, civil rights, higher education
Current Research: (1) Segregation, Desegregation, and the University of North Carolina; (2) A History of Virginia
Recent Publications:
•Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia (University of Virginia Press, 2004).
•From VPI to State University: President T. Marshall Hahn Jr. and the Transformation of Virginia Tech, 1962-1974 (co-authored with Warren H. Strother; Mercer University Press, 2004).
•Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law-An American History (Palgrave Macmillan/St.Martin's Press, 2002).