Laura F Edwards
| Title: | Professor |
| Office Location: | 231 Carr Building |
| Office Phone: | (919) 668-1435 |
| Email Address: | ledwards@duke.edu |
Education
- PhD University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1991
- MA University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987
- BA Northwestern University, 1985
Research Interests
My research focuses on women, gender, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. In addition to articles on these topics, I have published two books: 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). I am currently working on a new book project, The People and Their Peace: Legal Culture and the Transformation of Inequality in the Post-Revolutionary South, that deals with the reconfiguration of ordinary people's relationship to law and governance in the years 1787-1840.
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
- Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Newberry Library, Chicago, September, 2006-2007
- NEH Postdoctoral Fellowship for University Professors, 1999-2000
- Fletcher M. Green and Charles W. Ramsdell Award, Southern Historical Association for best article published in the Journal of Southern History, 1998-1999
- Vernon Carstensen Award, awarded by the Agricultural History Society, for best article published in Agricultural History, 1998
- Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, 1997
- Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C., 1995
- Monticello College Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, 1994
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, for best article published in the field of African American History, 1992
- HISTORY 103.03, LECTURES SPECIAL TOPICS
- Friedl Bdg 107, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- ENGLISH 173.01, SPECIAL TOPICS LANG/LIT
Synopsis
- Friedl Bdg 107, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- VISUALST 190.01, TOPICS IN VISUAL STUDIES
- Friedl Bdg 107, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
- HISTORY 195S.08, JUNIOR-SENIOR SEM SP TOP
Synopsis
- Carr 242, M 01:15 PM-03:45 PM
- HISTORY 169A.01, WOMEN, GENDER/SEXUALITY, US
Synopsis
- East Duke 209, MW 11:40 AM-12:55 PM
- HISTORY 310.01, THE U.S./THE LONG 19TH CENTURY
- West Duke 100, M 02:50 PM-05:20 PM
Representative Publications
Books- 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).
- Laura F. Edwards. "Status Without Rights: African American and the Tangled History of Law and Goverance in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. South." American Historical Review (April, 2007): 365-393.
- "Enslaved Women and the Law: The Paradoxes of Subordination in the Post-Revolutionary Carolinas." Slavery & Abolition 26 (August, 2005): 305-323. 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.
- "Law, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Patriarchal Authority in the Antebellum South." Journal of Southern History 65 (November, 1999): 733-70. 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).
- "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." Feminist Studies 22 (Summer, 1996): 363-386. republished in Martha Hodes, ed., Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 294-312.
- "'The Marriage Covenant Is at the Foundation of All Our Rights': The Politics of Slave Marriages in North Carolina after Emancipation." Law and History Review 14 (Spring, 1996): 81-124. 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.
- "Sexual Violence, Gender, Reconstruction, and the Extension of Patriarchy in Granville County, North Carolina." North Carolina Historical Review 68 (July, 1991): 237-260.