Daina Ramey Berry is Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor and Chair of the Department of History at The University of Texas at Austin. She is a scholar of the enslaved and a specialist on gender and slavery. She is the award-winning author/editor of six books, including “A Black Women’s History of the United States” and “The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, From Womb to Grave, In the Building of a Nation.” Professor Berry completed her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in African American Studies and U.S. History at UCLA.
The Gilder-Jordan Lecture Series is organized by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the UM Department of History, African American Studies Program, and the Center for Civil War Research.
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