Arthur Roger Ekirch (born February 6, 1950) is University Distinguished Professor of history at Virginia Tech in the United States. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998.
The son of intellectual historian Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. and Dorothy Gustafson, Roger Ekirch is internationally known for his pioneering research into pre-industrial sleeping patterns that was first published in "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles" and later in his award-winning 2005 book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past.
Selected publications
Books
"Poor Carolina": Politics and society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776, University of North Carolina Press, 1981. Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718–1775, Oxford University Press, 1987. At Day's Close: Night in Times Past, W.W. Norton, 2005. Birthright: The True Story of the Kidnapping of Jemmy Annesley, W.W. Norton, 2010. American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution, Pantheon, 2017. La Grande Transformation du Sommeil: Comment la Revolution Indsustrielle a Boulverse Nos Nuits, Editions Amersterdam, 2021.
Articles
"Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles", The American Historical Review, 2001. "The Modernization of Western Slumber: Or, Does Insomnia Have a History?", Past & Present, 2015. "Segmented Sleep in Preindustrial Societies", Sleep, 2016. "What Sleep Research Can Learn From History", Sleep Health, 2018.
See also
Biphasic and polyphasic sleep
References
External links
Rethinking Sleep (NY Times) Segmented sleep (Harpers)
21st-century American historians
American male non-fiction writers
People from Washington, D.C. Dartmouth College alumni Johns Hopkins University alumni Virginia Tech faculty Sleep researchers Living people 1950 births 21st-century American male writers