Thavolia Glymph, associate professor of African and African American studies and history at Duke, has been praised for her book, Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household, which Cambridge University Press published in 2008. Out of the House of Bondage was the 2009 co-winner of the Philip Taft Labor History Award and a 2009 finalist for both the Jefferson Davis Award and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize.