Susan E. O'Donovan
Associate Professor of African and African American Studies and of History
Address:
Harvard University
Department of History
Robinson L-15
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617.496.6342
Fax: 617.496.2871
Email: odonovan@fas.
Courses | Biography | Recent Publications | Curriculum Vitae
Courses
African and African American Studies 118. African-American History from the Slave Trade to 1900
Biography
A former editor with the Freedmen and Southern Society Project, her research focuses on slaves, the lives they shaped in bondage, and their often gendered and always contingent passages to freedom. Her current project, "Slaves and the Politics of Disunion," asks to what extent enslaved men and women not only monitored, but manipulated one of this nation's most formative moral and political debates. In addition, she is a lead participant in a new research initiative that brings together scholars from Ireland, Britain, and the United States: "After Slavery: Race, Labour, and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas." She teaches courses on African American history, slavery, labor, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the South.
Recent Publications
Becoming Free in the Cotton South (New York: Harvard University Press, forthcoming spring 2007)
Freedom: Volume 2, Series 3: Land and Labor, 1866-1867: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, co-edited with Anthony E. Kaye, Steven F. Miller, Leslie S. Rowland, and Stephen A. West (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Freedom: Volume 1, Series 3: Land and Labor, 1865: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, co-edited with Steven Hahn, Steven F. Miller, John C. Rodrigue, and Leslie S. Rowland (Cambridge University Press, 2002)