title: Roger Ekirch
text: # 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.
  