Roger Ekirch

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.

Roger Ekirch
Ekirch in 2012
Born	(1950-02-06) February 6, 1950 (age 75) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Academic work
Discipline	Historian
Institutions	Virginia Tech

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.
• 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 Industrielle a Bouleversé 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