Roger Ekirch

Roger Ekirch

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Roger Ekirch is an American historian best known for research on preindustrial sleep, including the historical evidence for segmented or “first” and “second” sleep. He is a professor emeritus at Virginia Tech and an author of works on nighttime history.

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