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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Profile

Gender
Female
Nationality
United States
Languages
English

Career

Occupations
Historian, Associate Professor
Active Years
2012-
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley — Department of History (Associate Professor), University of Iowa — Departments of History and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (Assistant Professor, former)
Influenced By
Deborah Gray White, Thavolia Glymph

Education

Rutgers University
Department of Psychology
Degree: BA
Period: 在籍期間不明
Year of Graduation: 2003
Country: United States
Rutgers University
Graduate studies (field unspecified)
Degree: MA
Period: 在籍期間不明
Year of Graduation: 2007
Country: United States
Rutgers University
Department of History (PhD program)
Degree: PhD
Period: 在籍期間不明
Year of Graduation: 2012
Country: United States
Doctoral dissertation: "Nobody couldn't sell'em but her" — slaveowning women, mastery, and the gendered politics of the antebellum slave market (supervisor: Deborah Gray White)

Awards

Lerner-Scott Dissertation Prize
2013
Work: Doctoral dissertation
Organization: Organization of American Historians
Result: 受賞
L.A. Times Book Prize (History)
2020
Work: They Were Her Property
Category: History
Organization: Los Angeles Times
Result: 受賞
Merle Curti Award (Social History)
2020
Work: They Were Her Property
Category: Social History
Organization: Organization of American Historians
Result: 受賞
Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize (shortlisted)
2020
Work: They Were Her Property
Organization: Gilder Lehrman Institute / Gettysburg College
Result: ショートリスト
Dan David Prize
2023
Organization: Dan David Prize
Result: 受賞（賞金: $300,000）

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

2019 History (social history)

The book documents white women's active roles as slave owners in the antebellum American South, using court records and oral histories to challenge narratives that see women only as passive bystanders to slavery.

SlaveryGenderLaw and economic historyWomen's history

Bibliography

  • They Were Her Property. White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (Yale University Press, 2019)
  • '[S]he could...spare one ample breast for the profit of her owner': white mothers and enslaved wet nurses' invisible labor in American slave markets' (chapter, 2020)
  • 'Rethinking Sexual Violence and the Marketplace of Slavery: White Women, the Slave Market and Enslaved People's Sexualized Bodies in the Nineteenth-Century South' (chapter, 2018)
  • 'Mistresses in the Making: White Girls, Mastery and the Practice of Slaveownership in the Nineteenth-Century South' (chapter, 2015)
  • 'If Only Trayvon Had Freedom Papers' (History News Network, 2013)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Archival, scholarly proseEvidence-based analytical style
Recurring Motifs
Gender and powerRelationship between law and marketsWomen's economic agency

Legacy

Jones-Rogers has reshaped understandings of American slavery by documenting white women's active participation, influencing both scholarly debates and public discourse. Her major work has received multiple awards and is recognized as an important contribution to history and gender studies.

Academic Societies

  • Organization of American Historians (associated)

Quotes

  • The book provides evidence that white women were active participants in sustaining and expanding slavery.
    Source: The New York Times (book review, 2019) (2019)

Trivia

  • They Were Her Property won the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize in History.
  • Jones-Rogers received the Dan David Prize in 2023 (US$300,000).
  • Her doctoral dissertation won the Organization of American Historians Lerner-Scott Prize in 2013.