About the Editor
Loren Schweninger (above right)
with John Hope Franklin
Loren Schweninger, director and editor of the Race and Slavery Petitions Project, received his BA and MA in history from the University of Colorado at Boulder (1962, 1966), and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1972), where he studied under the distinguished scholar John Hope Franklin. Since 1971, Schweninger has been a member of the history faculty at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Over the years, he has received several awards, including: best article in Louisiana History (1979, 1989), best article in South Carolina Historical Magazine (1992), a Senior Fellowship for College Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities (1985-86), Senior Fulbright Lectureship, University of Genoa, Italy (1991), and research grants from National Historical Publications and Records Commission (1991-2005), National Endowment for the Humanities (1995-2005), and Charles Stewart Mott Foundation (1997-2005). In 2000, he and John Hope Franklin were recipients of the Lincoln Prize at Gettysburg College.
