Dr. Matthew Hild

Biography

Matthew Hild is a lecturer in history at the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in Southern history, U.S. labor history, and agricultural history. He earned his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech’s School of History, Technology, and Society in 2003. Hild is the author of 'Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South' (University of Georgia Press, 2007) and 'Arkansas's Gilded Age: Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working-Class Protest' (University of Missouri Press, 2018). He received the Arkansas Historical Association's J.G. Ragsdale Book of the Year Award in 2019. Additionally, he co-authored 'Georgia Tech (Campus History)' with David L. Morton, published in 2018, and co-edited and contributed to 'Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power' (University Press of Florida, 2018), which won the United Association for Labor Education's Award for Best Book Related to Labor Education in 2019. Hild has also co-edited 'Gwinnett County, Georgia: Transformation in the American South, 1818-2018' (University of Georgia Press, 2022), which has received accolades from the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council and the Gwinnett County Historical Society.

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