Roger Ekirch
A. Roger Ekirch (born February 6, 1950, in Washington DC) is University Distinguished Professor of history at Virginia Tech in the United States. He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1998. He 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" (The American Historical Review, 2001) and later in his book At Day's Close: Night in Times Past (W.W. Norton, 2005).

Selected publications
 "Poor Carolina": Politics and society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776. North Carolina University Press, Chapel Hill, 1981. 
 Bound for America: The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775. Clarendon Press, 1987.
 Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-Industrial Slumber in the British Isles, The American Historical Review, 2001.
 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.