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Assistant Professor Office: Herter 715 Degree: Ph.D., Princeton (2000) Research Interests and Professional Activities Barbara Krauthamer received her PhD from Princeton University. Her primary areas of research and publication are: slavery and emancipation in the United States; African American/Native American intersections; comparative slavery; critical race and gender theory. She has recently completed her first monograph, titled, Native Country: African American Slavery, Freedom and Citizenship in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian Nations. It is the first full-length study of chattel slavery and the lives of enslaved people in these two Indian nations. The book also reveals the centrality of slavery and racial ideology in Native leaders definitions of Indian sovereignty, as well as in U.S. federal policy towards Indian peoples and territory. She has already written a number of articles and book chapters on the subjects of slavery in Indian Territory, and African American/Native American intersections. Her work has been supported with funding from the NEH, Stanford University, Yale University and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently working on two books. The first is a study of runaway slave women that frames enslaved women as intellectual and political actors and examines the meanings and manifestations of freedom in their lives. The second is a co-authored history of nineteenth-century visual representations of slavery and emancipation. Professor Krauthamer is on leave and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in 2011-12. |