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).

