Arthur Roger Ekirch (born February 6, 1950) is University Distinguished Professor of history at
Virginia Tech in the United States.[1] He was a
Guggenheim fellow in 1998.
The son of intellectual historian Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. and Dorothy Gustafson,[2] 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"[3] and later in his award-winning 2005 book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past.[4][5][6][7]
Selected publications
Books
"Poor Carolina": Politics and society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729–1776, University of North Carolina Press, 1981.