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Associate Professor, History
| Office Location: | 231 Carr Bldg | | Office Phone: | +1 919 668 1435 | | Email Address: |  
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Education:
- PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1991
- MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1987
- BA Northwestern University 1985
- Specialties:
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United States
19th and 20th Centuries
Law
Southern United States
Women
Race
Gender
- Research Interests:
Dr. Edward's research focuses on women, gender, and the Law in the Nineteenth Century South. In addition to articles on these topics, Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction (1997) and Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era (2000). She is also the Associate Editor of Law and History Review. She is currently working on a new book project that deals with the reconfiguration of domestic relations, patriarchy, and the status of white women and enslaved women and men in the early nineteenth century.
- Curriculum Vitae
Representative Publications (More Publications)
- Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Southern Women in the Civil War Era. Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
2000. (paper back ed., 2004)
- Gendered Strife and Confusion: The Political Culture of Reconstruction. University of Illinois Press,
1997. (Excerpted in: Major Problems in the History of the American South, 2nd ed., edited by Paul Escott, David R. Goldfield, Elizabeth Hayes Turner, and Sally G. McMillan (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999); A History of Gender in America: Essays, Documents, and Articles, edited by Sylvia D. Hoffert (New York: Prentice Hall, 2003).)
- "Status Without Rights: African American and the Tangled History of Law and Goverance in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South." To be republished as "Reconstruction and North Carolina Women’s Tangled History with Law and Governance" in Paul D. Escott ed., Reconstruction in North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2005).
American Historical Review (April,
April, 2007): 365-393.
- "Enslaved Women and the Law: The Paradoxes of Subordination in the Post-Revolutionary Carolinas." To be republished in Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers, and Joseph C. Miller, eds., Women in Slavery: The Modern Atlantic, vol. 2. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2007), pp. 128-51.
Slavery & Abolition 26 (August,
August, 2005): 305-323.
- "Law, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Patriarchal Authority in the Antebellum South." republished in Nancy Bercaw, ed., Gender and the Southern Body Politic (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000), 63-86; to be republished in J. William Harris, ed., The Old South: new Studies of Society and Culture (New York: Routledge, forthcoming 2008).
Journal of Southern History 65 (November,
November, 1999): 733-70.
- "The Problem of Dependency: African Americans, Labor Relations, and the Law in the Nineteenth-Century South." Agricultural History 72 (Spring, 1998): 313-40.
- "The Disappearance of Susan Daniel and Henderson Cooper: Gender and Narratives of Political Conflict in the Reconstruction-Era U.S. South." republished in Martha Hodes, ed., Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 294-312.
Feminist Studies 22 (Summer, 1996): 363-386.
- "'The Marriage Covenant Is at the Foundation of All Our Rights': The Politics of Slave Marriages in North Carolina after Emancipation." republished as "Marriage, Households, and the Politics of Reconstruction in North Carolina," in Glenda Gilmore, Jane Dailey, and Bryant Simon, eds., Race, Gender, and Politics in the New South, 1865-1980 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), 7-27.
Law and History Review 14 (Spring, 1996): 81-124.
- "Sexual Violence, Gender, Reconstruction, and the Extension of Patriarchy in Granville County, North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 68 (July, 1991): 237-260.
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