Kenneth Zogry, Ph.D.
Historian and Museum Consultant
Dr. Kenneth Zogry is both a public and an academic historian. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from North Carolina State University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in American History from UNC-Chapel Hill. Other graduate work includes the Attingham Summer School in England, and the Graduate Institute in Early Southern Material Culture, offered by the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts and UNC-Greensboro. He has been in the field of public history for more than twenty years, including positions as assistant curator of Old Salem in Winston-Salem, curator of the Bennington Museum in Vermont, and executive director of the Pope House Museum in Raleigh. He has served as a consultant to historic house museums from North Carolina to Maine, and is certified by the state of North Carolina to write nominations for the National Register of Historic Places. Since 1998 he has served as official historian of the Carolina Inn on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus. He has taught courses in American history, North Carolina history, African American history, and museum studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, NC State University, and Peace College. Zogry has written more than a dozen articles and book and exhibit reviews for publications including the Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts, the Public Historian, CRM: the Journal of the National Parks Service, and the North Carolina Historical Review. He is the author of two books: The Best the Country Affords: Vermont Furniture, 1765-1850, which won the Charles F. Montgomery Award, and The University’s Living Room; A History of the Carolina Inn, which won two awards from the Printing Industry of the Carolinas.
