Research Keywords

• African American, U.S. 19th Century, Slavery, Gender, and Comparative History

Research Areas

• Comparative, Economic, Social, Women & Gender

Time Periods

• 19th Century

Affiliations

• African-American Studies
• Comparative Black History

Recent or current courses

• IAH 211 - Area Studies Americas (Spring 2009)
• HST 800 - Historiography US to 1865 (Fall 2009)
• HST 310 - African American History to 1876 (Fall 2009)

Significant Scholarly Activities

Books

• Daina Ramey Berry, 'Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe:' Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, June 2007.

Journal Articles

• Daina L. Ramey [Berry]. "." “ ‘She do a Heap of Work:’ Female Slave Labor on Glynn County Rice and Cotton Plantations,” in The Georgia Historical Quarterly 82.4 (Winter 1998): 707-734.
• Daina Ramey Berry. "." “Teaching Ar’n’t I a Woman?,” Journal of Women’s History 19.2 (June 2007):
• Daina Ramey Berry. "." “ ‘A Heap of Us Slaves:’ Family and Community Life among Slave Women in Georgia,” in Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South. 44.3 (Fall 2000): 21-38.

Book Chapter/Articles

• Daina Ramey Berry, "." In " 'We'm Fus' Rate Bargain:' Value, Labor, and Price in a Georgia Slave Community," in The Chattel Principle: Internal Slave Trades in the Americas, 1808-1888, edited by Walter Johnson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004: 55-71.
• Daina Ramey Berry, "." In “ ‘We Sho Was Dressed Up:’ Slave Women, Material Culture and Decorative Arts in Wilkes County, Georgia,”in The Savannah River Valley up to 1865: Fine Arts, Architecture, and Decorative Arts., edited by Ashley Callahan. Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, 2003: 73-83.

Awards, Fellowships & Grants

• American Fellowship Postdoctoral Research
• Michigan State University Teacher-Scholar
• Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Burkhardt Fellowship