ABRIDGED CURRICULUM VITAE

DAINA RAMEY BERRY

Associate Professor Department of History University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station, B7000 Austin, TX 78712 (512) 471-4310 Office (512) 475-7222 Fax [email protected]

EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles Ph.D., History, 1998 University of California, Los Angeles M.A., Afro-American Studies, 1994 University of California, Los Angeles B.A., History, 1992

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS

National Organization of American Historians, Distinguished Lecturer, 2011-

Institute of Museum and Library Services: Museums for America Grant, Telfair Museum of Art, The Reinterpretation of Urban Slavery in Savannah, GA 2010-2011 (coordinator of symposium and contributing co-editor of the forthcoming manuscript.)

American Council of Learned Societies, Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 2007-2008, also in residence during 2008-2009 (Sabbatical year)

“2004 Emerging Scholar,” Black Issues in Higher Education, (1/15/04 Issue)

Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities, Duke University (History), 2003-2004

American Association of University Women Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowship, 2000-2001

University Graduate School Diversity Mentors Fellowship, University of Texas, 2011-2012

Sesquicentennial Summer Fellowship, Michigan State University, 2006, 2007

Foreign Travel Grant, International Studies Program, Michigan State University, 2007

Undergraduate Research Award, College of Social Sciences, Michigan State University, 2007

Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Award, Michigan State University, 2004-2005

Internal Research Grant Program – Small Grant Recipient, Michigan State University, January 2001 – December 2001

Travel Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, 2000 Ramey Berry, 2

Faculty-Grant-in-Aid, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, 2000

Nia Award for Outstanding Faculty of the Year, Arizona State University, 1999-2000

Outstanding Faculty Member of the Month Award, Reach Student Development Office, Arizona State University, November 1999

Mini-Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, 1999

Summer Grant, Women’s Studies, Arizona State University, 1999

Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California Office of the President, 1997-1998

Distinction, Oral Examination for Doctoral Candidacy, UCLA Department of History, 1996

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2007).

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013). Contributing co- editor with Professor Leslie Harris of Emory University.

BOOKS IN PREPARATION: The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of Human Chattels, 1740-1865 (book-length manuscript).

Sexuality & Slavery: Exposing the History of Enslaved People in the Americas (Contributing co-editor with Professor Leslie Harris of Emory University).

BOOK CHAPTERS “ ‘Broad is da Road dat Leads ter Death’: Enslaved Mortality and Human Chattel,” in Sven Beckart and Seth Rockman, eds., Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development (: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013).

‘Ter Show Yo’ de Value of Slaves:’ The Pricing of Human Property,” in William Link, ed., Citizenship and Identity in the 19th Century South (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2013).

“ ‘We’m Fus’ Rate Bargain:’ Value, Labor, and Price in a Georgia Slave Community,” in Walter Johnson, ed., The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, 1808-1888 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004): 55-71.

“ ‘We Sho Was Dressed Up:’ Slave Women, Material Culture and Decorative Arts in Wilkes County, Georgia,” in Ashley Callahan, ed., The Savannah River Valley up to 1865: Fine Arts, Architecture, and Decorative Arts (Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, 2003): 73-83.

“Historical Essay on Retreat Plantation,” in Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, Melanie Pavich-Lindsay, and Lisa Tuttle, eds., Look Back (Atlanta: Nexus Press, 2002): 1-6.

ARTICLES “Teaching Ar’n’t I a Woman?,” Journal of Women’s History 19 no. 2 (June 2007): 139-145. *Entire forum titled "The History of Women and Slavery: Considering the Impact of Ar'n't I a Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South on the Twentieth Anniversary of Its Publication,"

Ramey Berry, 3 received the 2007 Lettitia Woods Brown Prize for the best article on black women's history from the Association of Black Women Historians.

“ ‘In Pressing Need of Cash:’ Gender, Skill and Family Persistence in the Domestic Slave Trade,” Journal of African American History, 92, no. 1 (Winter 2007): 22-36.

“ ‘A Heap of Us Slaves:’ Family and Community Life among Slave Women in Georgia,” Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South 44, no. 3(Fall 2000): 21-38.

“ ‘She do a Heap of Work:’ Female Slave Labor on Glynn County Rice and Cotton Plantations,” Georgia Historical Quarterly 82, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 707-734.

EDITORIAL WORK Editor in Chief, Enslaved Women: An Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2012).

Senior Editor, Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004). *2006 RUSA Outstanding Reference Source, Booklist Editor's Choice/Best of 2005 Title, and 2005 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

BOOK REVIEWS African American Life in the Georgia Lowcountry: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee, Edited by Philip Morgan, Journal of Southern History, LXXVIII, No. 4 (November 2011).

Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South by Anthony E. Kaye, Journal of Southern History, Volume 75, No. 2 (May 2009): 442-443.

Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South by Stephanie M.H. Camp, Civil War History, Volume 52, No. 2 (June 2006): 187-188.

Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas by Judith A. Carney, Florida Historical Quarterly vol. 81, no. 2 (Fall 2002): 200-202.

Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-1880 by Marli F. Weiner, Journal of Southern History LXVI, No. 1 (February 2000): 122-123.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES “African American Women,” in Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in U. S. Women’s History, 3rd Edition, Vicki Ruiz and Ellen C. DuBois, eds. (New York: Routledge, 1999): 639- 642.

ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), s.v. “Track and Field” and s.v. “Islam.”

The New Georgia Encyclopedia, s.v. “Slave Women.” http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-841

WEB PUBLICATIONS

“Slave Labor and Sexuality in Antebellum Georgia,” Not Even Past, University of Texas at Austin, http://www.notevenpast.org/feature/daina-ramey-berry-slavery-work-and-sexuality (accessed November 2011).

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“Enslaved Life and Labor in the US,” with Jermaine Thibodeaux, Not Even Past, University of Texas at Austin, http://www.notevenpast.org/read/enslaved-life-and-labor-us (accessed November 2011).

“An Open Statement for the Fans of The Help” with Tiffany M. Gill, Kali Nicole Gross, Ida Jones, and Janice Sumler-Edmond, Association of Black Women Historians, http://www.abwh.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2:open-statement-the- help%E2%80%A6 (accessed August 2011) reprinted in the Inaugural Issue of JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women’s Studies online ISSN: 1530-5686, http://www.africaknowledgeproject.org/index.php/jenda (accessed October 2011).

“Let the Enslaved Testify: Reading Slave Narratives,” Not Even Past, University of Texas at Austin, http://www.notevenpast.org/discover/let-enslaved-testify (accessed February 2011)

TEACHING POSITIONS Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, 2010-Present Associate Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University, 2006-2009 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University, 2000-2006 Study Abroad, University of West Indies, Mona Campus, Summer 2003 - 2005 Assistant Professor, Department of History, Arizona State University, 1998-2000

CONSULTING

NBC Documentary Series, “Who Do You Think You Are?” Atlanta & Macon, GA, 23-25 March 2009.

Telfair Museum Planning Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Owens-Thomas House, Savannah, GA, March 2008-present.

National Park Service, referee for Significance Report on Harriet Tubman Sites, September 2005.

Thomas Day Education Project, National Endowment for the Humanities, Stagville Plantation Lecture Series, North Carolina Public Schools, Durham, NC, 2004-2005.

Teaching American History, Project Time, U.S. Department of Education, Battle Creek Public Schools, Battle Creek, MI, 2003-2005.

“Retreat: Palimpsest of a Georgia Sea Island Plantation,” Installation on display at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, National Endowment of the Arts, July-August, 2002.

“Schools for the New Millennium Project,” National Endowment for the Humanities, McClintock High School, Tempe, Arizona, September 1999 –May 2000.

CONVEENER OF SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES, & PUBLIC LECTURES

“Sexuality & Slavery: Exposing the History of Enslaved People in the Americas,” University of Texas at Austin, Institute for Historical Studies, 11-12 November 2011.

“Slavery and Freedom in Savannah,” Telfair Museum of Art, 12-14 October 2011.

“An Afternoon with Spike Lee,” University of Texas at Austin, 14 November 2010.

RADIO & TELEVISION APPEARANCES:

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KPFT Pacifica Radio (Houston, TX), “Discussion of THE HELP,” 4 September 2011.

The Michael Eric Dyson Show, “Reviewing the film/book THE HELP,” 8 August 2011, KCBS- (Bellevue/Seattle, WA), KGRM-(Grambling, LA), KTSU-(Houston, TX), WAMU-HD3- (Washington, D.C.), WCSU-(Wilberforce, OH), WEAA-(Baltimore, MD), WJSU-(Jackson, Miss.), and WPRL-(Southwestern Mississippi and Louisiana).

“The Ultimate Guide to the Presidents,” The History Channel, November 2012.

“An Afternoon with Spike Lee, 14 November 2010, KXAN (Austin, TX) KVUE (Austin, TX) and KUT (NPR, Austin, TX)

NBC Documentary Series, “Who Do You Think You Are?” 23 April 2010.

“Famous Figures in African American History.” The Journeys Channel, Educational Management Group Networks, Scottsdale, Arizona, 8 February 1999.

“In Pursuit of a Dream: African American Civil Rights Activists.” The Journeys Channel, Educational Management Group Networks, Scottsdale, Arizona, 4 February 1999.

“Beneath the Surface: The History of African American Women in the United States.” Pacifica Radio (KFBK), Los Angeles, California, 18-19 February 1998.

“One Day: Martin Luther King Jr. Special,” 30 Minute Television Special. Produced by Debbie Allen Sponsored by the Disney Channel in Association with the Children’s Television Network, Invited Research Consultant, Burbank, California, 1 October 1997-January 1998.

NATIONAL SERVICE

ADVISORY & EDITORIAL BOARDS

National Endowment for the Humanities, Awards Panel, 2011

Referee, University of North Carolina Press, Blackwell Publishers, McGraw-Hill Publishers, Prentice Hall Publishers, and National Humanities Center Fellowships

Referee, Journal of American History, Journal of Southern History, The Historian, Civil War History, and Florida Historical Quarterly

Advisory Board Member, Our Daily Work/Our Daily Lives Lecture Series, Michigan State University, Labor Education Program, 2005-2009

Founding and Editorial Board Member, Journal of Black Women, Gender & Families, 2005-2010

Advisory Committee on African American Women, Southern Association of Women Historians, 2004-2008.

PROFESSIONAL

Program Committee Member, 2013 Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting

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Program Committee Member, 2012 Southern Association of University Women Conference (SAWH), Texas Christian University, 6-9 June 2012.

Conference Panel Chair, Rites and Rights of Passage: Enslaved Girls and Women in the United States South and Barbados, American Historical Association, 8 January 2011.

Faculty Director, NEH--Humanities Texas Summer Institutes 2010 (Austin, TX)

Committee Member, Charles S. Syndor Book Prize, Southern Historical Association, 2011

Executive Council Member, Southern Association of Women Historians, 2009-2012 Conference Panel Commentator, “New Directions in African American History & Studies: Life and History Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA 30 September 2006

Freedom Trail Commission Member, Officer of the Governor, State of Michigan, 2005-2008

Advertising Committee Member, Association of Black Women Historians, 2004

National Treasurer, Association of Black Women Historians 2004-2006

Conference Panel Chair, “Black Women, the Body, and the Law,” Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting, 1 October 2004

Committee Member, Southern Historical Association Membership Committee, 2002

Navigating the Job Market Forum, Facilitator, Department of History, Michigan State University, 26 October 2001 and 13 September 2002

Planning Committee Member, Association of Black Women Historians Symposium, Bethune Council House, Washington, D.C. 26 September 2001

Conference Panel Chair and Commentator, “Imagined & Real: The Education and Literacy Representations of Black Children in Antebellum America,” Association for the Study of African American History and Life Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., 27 September 2001

Committee Chair, Southern Association of Women Historians, 2000 Willie Lee Rose Book Prize, January – November 2001

Conference Panel Chair, “Complexities of Culture and Society in Slavery and Beyond,” Crossing Boundaries: The African Diaspora in the New Millennium, New York University, 22 September 2000

STUDENT COMMITTEES

University of Texas at Austin Chair, Doctoral Student Committees: Jermaine Thibodeaux, Fall 2010 – present Chyna Bowen, Fall 2011 - present

Member, Doctoral Student Committees: Valerie Martinez Ava Purkiss

Michigan State University, Department of History Chair, Doctoral Student Committees:

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Sowande’ M. Mustakeem, Ph.D. (Graduated, May 2008) Placement: Washington University in St. Louis, Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies

Nicole Ribianszky, Ph.D. (Graduated, May 2010) Placement: Georgia Gwinnett College, Assistant Professor of History

Jennifer L. Barclay, Ph.D. (Graduated, May 2010) Placement: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Case Western Reserve University

Leslie Rollins Washington, ABD (Fall 2007-present)

MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association Association of Black Women Historians, Treasurer (2004-2006) Association of the Study of Afro-American Life and History Economic History Association Georgia Historical Society Organization of American Historians Southern Association of Women Historians (Executive Council Member, 2009-2012) Southern Historical Association (Charles S. Syndor Book Prize Committee, 2011-2012) Virginia Historical Society