Roger Ekirch
# Roger Ekirch

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.
